Homemade wind turbine built using 55-gallon plastic drums and PVC

Gotta love homespun ingenuity. Learn more at the builder's blog.

Here's part two, which covers actually making electricity from the project. This produced about 12 volts, or enough to keep charge on a typical car battery.

UK wind turbine

This video of a homemade wind turbine in the United Kingdom shows what a little ingenuity and experimentation can produce.

This turbine can produce up to a kilowatt of electricity but on average makes 200 watts.