Welcome to OTHERPOWER.COM

Our friend Tye Banderet is a CAD artist, and became a wind power enthusiast after attending our August 2008 homebrew wind turbine construction seminar here at our shop in Colorado. We collaborated with Tye on these 3D CAD blueprints, and they are a perfect companion to our book "Homebrew Wind Power." Having 1:1 scale (actual size) prints on hand greatly simplifies the construction of a 10-foot diameter wind turbine for the home builder. Critical assemblies like the frame with furling tail system, blades, tail boom, and alternator are shown in 3D perspective drawings to quickly answer questions during welding and fabrication. Wondering if the part you just made is the correct size? Just lay it over the prints and find out instantly! You can order them here.

UPCOMING WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION SEMINARS

Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA -- September 18 to 19, 2010. We've been giving these short, 2-day seminars at the Fair for seven years now, and they are an excellent and inexpensive introduction to building a wind turbine from scratch.
Evergreen Institute, Gerald, Missouri, July 25-20, 2010.
Wisconsin, June 2010? TBA.
Colorado, August 2010? TBA.
Contact us for more information if you want to book a seminar of your own here in Colorado for 2-4 students, or seminar at your own location. Many of these seminars we put on are made possible by grant money from universities and community colleges, who sponsor instructors and professors to attend. We can also provide references from past seminars.

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We are a group of alternative energy enthusiasts who want to spread the message that It's EASY to make your own power FROM SCRATCH. Otherpower.com's headquarters is located in a remote part of the Northern Colorado mountains, 12 miles past the nearest power pole or phone line. All of our houses and shops run on only solar, wind, water and generator power...not because we are trying to make some sort of political or environmental statement, but because these are the only options available. And we refuse to move to town.

We could never have made it to our current level of electrification up here without the help of friends, neighbors--and folks we've never met, thanks to the internet. Our goal is to share our information about experimental successes and failures alike, free of charge, with anyone who is interested. We also offer a wide selection of books and hard-to-find alternative energy parts and components on our Online Store. We hope you find our pages informative, useful and enjoyable!

For all questions about orders, inventory, tracking, shipping, etc. please E-Mail our Shipping Office

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Our mailing address is:

Forcefield
2606 West Vine
Fort Collins, CO 80521

If you need to contact us by phone, please go HERE.

If you have homebrew renewable energy questions, you can send us an E-mail HERE. However, PLEASE be aware that we receive many more Email requests for free information and advice than we can possibly respond to and still run our business...they come in twice as fast as we can possibly reply. For quicker advice and opinions alternative energy questions from experimenters worldwide, try posting your question to the Otherpower Discussion Board. THANKS for being considerate!

OUR NEWEST PAGE
Renewable Energy Systems and Firefighter Safety Most firefighters don't know anything about renewable energy systems--that's not their job, and they are trained about electrical safety only on conventional grid-connected homes. DanF has been a volunteer firefighter for 10 years, and wrote this Powerpoint training presentation to help firefighters identify RE systems, pinpoint their hazards, and show how they differ from conventional utility power. This document is now in use for training in various fire departments around the country.
OUR NEWEST PRODUCT
Complete Wind Turbine Kits We are now offering a complete wind turbine kit. It includes a welded frame and tail, completely assembled alternator, all hardware, and a set of blades. All you have to do is mount the blades on the turbine, and mount the entire machine on your tower. We also offer a NEW "user's manual" for our 10-foot wind turbines, highly recommended reading no matter whose wind turbine you have. It details final assembly, towers, maintenance, and troubleshooting.

GREAT PAGE FOR NEWBIES
Designing a solar power system for a camping trailer This page thoroughly covers all the design considerations, equipment choices and installation procedures DanF used to install a tiny, inexpensive 40-watt solar power/battery/inverter system in his camping and fishing trailer. It's a great reference for learning the basics of sizing and purchasing a renewable energy system of any size and scale.

GREAT PAGE FOR EXPERIMENTERS
Wood-Fired Steam Engine 2kw Backup Battery Charger We always have lots of work to do in the wind turbine shop, but it's OK to have some FUN now and then isn't it? We recently got this vintage steam engine running, and built a 2kw axial-flux alternator for it. It's a great backup battery charger for the shop, and allows us to say "We get our electricity from firewood!" Plus it's a heck of a lot of fun to run! You can hear the steam whistle from 2 miles away when we get a full head of steam built up and start making power.

SAFETY NOTE: Some of the experiments described on our pages may present various hazards. Please be cautious. We are not responsible for injury resulting from neglecting safety precautions when performing experiments.

ABOUT FORCEFIELD PRODUCTS DISCUSSION BOARD DAILY NEWS

CONSERVATION BATTERIES SUN WIND

HYDRO FOSSIL FUELS EXPERIMENTS BIOFUELS

WATER PUMPING POWER SYSTEMS EFFICIENT LIGHTING LINKS

OUR NEWEST PAGE Renewable Energy Systems and Firefighter Safety Most firefighters don't know anything about renewable energy systems--that's not their job, and they are trained about electrical safety only on conventional grid-connected homes. DanF has been a volunteer firefighter for 10 years, and wrote this Powerpoint training presentation to help firefighters identify RE systems, pinpoint their hazards, and show how they differ from conventional utility power. This document is now in use for training in various fire departments around the country.	OUR NEWEST PRODUCT Complete Wind Turbine Kits We are now offering a complete wind turbine kit. It includes a welded frame and tail, completely assembled alternator, all hardware, and a set of blades. All you have to do is mount the blades on the turbine, and mount the entire machine on your tower. We also offer a NEW "user's manual" for our 10-foot wind turbines, highly recommended reading no matter whose wind turbine you have. It details final assembly, towers, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
GREAT PAGE FOR NEWBIES Designing a solar power system for a camping trailer This page thoroughly covers all the design considerations, equipment choices and installation procedures DanF used to install a tiny, inexpensive 40-watt solar power/battery/inverter system in his camping and fishing trailer. It's a great reference for learning the basics of sizing and purchasing a renewable energy system of any size and scale.	GREAT PAGE FOR EXPERIMENTERS Wood-Fired Steam Engine 2kw Backup Battery Charger We always have lots of work to do in the wind turbine shop, but it's OK to have some FUN now and then isn't it? We recently got this vintage steam engine running, and built a 2kw axial-flux alternator for it. It's a great backup battery charger for the shop, and allows us to say "We get our electricity from firewood!" Plus it's a heck of a lot of fun to run! You can hear the steam whistle from 2 miles away when we get a full head of steam built up and start making power.

ABOUT FORCEFIELD	PRODUCTS	DISCUSSION BOARD	DAILY NEWS
CONSERVATION	BATTERIES	SUN	WIND
HYDRO	FOSSIL FUELS	EXPERIMENTS	BIOFUELS
WATER PUMPING	POWER SYSTEMS	EFFICIENT LIGHTING	LINKS

UPCOMING WIND TURBINE CONSTRUCTION SEMINARS

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For all questions about orders, inventory, tracking, shipping, etc. please E-Mail our Shipping Office

OUR NEWEST PAGE

OUR NEWEST PRODUCT

GREAT PAGE FOR NEWBIES

GREAT PAGE FOR EXPERIMENTERS

SAFETY NOTE: Some of the experiments described on our pages may present various hazards. Please be cautious. We are not responsible for injury resulting from neglecting safety precautions when performing experiments.

This page last updated 11/21/2009