Jay Leno's Green Garage: Wind Turbines

As part of an ongoing project with Popular Mechanics to make his garage more sustainable, the Tonight Show host is getting set to install a state-of-the-art turbine on top of the shop.

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Science & Technology

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• Jay Leno
• Environment
• Wind Power
• Wind Turbine
• Popular Mechanics

[ForestSongUnLTD]

lol, dynamite. dont believe it, athough there are hazards, theres nothing to prevent us from using them to do similar things on our own.

[IAMBILLYTHEKID]

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[weetiewildrose]

@153mileyfan The rotors on the PMG for that thing are huge, he said it will max out at 12KW output, when anyone talks about wind turbine output they talk in continuous output, he is talking 2-5KW all day equaling to between 48-120KW hours per day. My own own house only uses 24KW hours a day.

[Anonymousg64]

@Anonymousg64 i dont think most houses actually consume more then average 1-3kw or 24kwh/day-72kwh/day. (unless you go on vacation and forget 10 100watt light bulbs on, or you left you`re 3 300watt fridges open and the compressor is constantly running.)

[Anonymousg64]

@153mileyfan im guessing he really meant 2000 j/s, not watts per day, it would be around 172800000 joules in total if it ran at 2000watts all 24hours

A house that consumes 20 kwh per day actually consumes 72000000 joules in a day, meaning 2000w system generating constant power is more then double what a 20kwh house consumes.

but if you're house has 20 1000w servers systems running at full load in the basement the power consumed would be 10 times what is produced by the 2000 watt generater.

[153mileyfan]

2000 to 5000 watts a day? WOW. thats completely useless. The average house in America(let alone a giant warehouse garage) uses 15 to 20 KILO watts per day. That means even if this was just a regular house(which its not) it would only help with less than 1/15th the power. Unless you get more than 10, its completely worthless

[JoeC7711]

@MultiJlies, yea and you too.

[MultiJiles]

We need an end to the trash that is Jay Leno scumbag big chin faggot go die already

[SmallWindTurbines]

This video.. a winner. See my home energy stuffif you like GOING GREEN. Merry Christmas Y'all!

[1foxtrot70]

@TK42138 - It is not only the goverments but the power companies also. If you try to do everything above board under NETMETERING the power companies will only pay you $0.015 per kilowatt/hr produced. You are better off having a cut over switch on YOUR side of the meter and switch your house to your alternative power source. When you take your system down for maintenance you switch over and use the power company as a back-up power source until maintainance is completed.