Well living in south yorks with the foot of the pennines not far to the west of me I'm fed up of all this wind!
I built a small anemometer style wind indicator for the garden (three hemispheres on radial arms off a central bearing) and it's going like the clappers.
SWMBO keeps on looking at it and saying "why dont you put a generator on it? We could run the outside lights" etc.
Good idea, but I've no clue as to how to develop her plan.
I remember every chalet on humberston fitties camp site having an old telegraph pole with a truck dynamo on top rigged with a crude wooden propeller. A shed full of 12v batteries completed the ensemble and certainly powered lights etc.
Can it be that simple? Or are there better ways these days?
Would t'council have something to say if I stuck a pole in my garden?
Just musing while I wait for the shed roof to blow off.
Blustery of Barnsley