Hi all!
You are right, people only gripe about the things they don't like.
Well, let me tell you something!
There are windmills, cobbled solar panels, water wheels, hamster-powered nightlights, LED lighting systems, solar powered outhouses, Wind-powered cabooses, "The first dishwasher in the canyon!", FuKing generators, listeroid generators, Model A tower anchors, Bird's eye views of folk's properties by other folks perched atop their windmill towers, wind, solar and water powered computers, bikes, TV's, Tube-Type stereos, motorcycles with SUPER-DEE DOOPER Silencers on them, electric motorcycles, Volvo parts flying in the wind, (on purpose), 4 feet of snow halfway up doors of people's houses, all the while they are snug in their wind and solar powered houses, lots of food, fun and fellowship with dogs laying about, and a good mountain jam every now and again, including Washtub Bass, and projects going on all over the world by people who just love doing it, and even remembrance of those who made great strides in this, the DIY home power field, blazing the trails for others to follow by making the best AC motor conversion generators the commercial world can't even touch, as well as many other things, ideas and projects, the proper way to do the cable clamps when raising your tower so you don't let the volvo parts come crashing down (by accident), all the way from the smallest anemometer to the largest homebuilt windplant, measuring 20 FEET in diameter, the best ways TO do things and the best ways NOT TO do things based on personal, and in many cases group experience (been there, done that), and in my opinion, the gripers can just keep on griping and the rest of us will just keep on learning and enjoying this board for what it is, how it is and for as long as the admins and the owners (who provide this EXCELLENT resource to us for the low, low price of ABSOLUTELY FREE!) choose to keep it available.
So, in light of all this, and I am sure this is only a very limited and partial list, in my humble opinion, this, as it is, is absolutely the BEST resource on planet Earth for anyone who wants to delve into the wonderful world of "Sticking it to the man" by producing their own power, with devices and systems that they dreamed up, designed, asked questions about, got answers about, even if they were dumb questions, and even if they have been answered before, because, remember that there are thousands of new people on the Internet every day that don't know how to do a lot of research for answers to the question they may have, even though someone else may think they are dumb question; to that new guy, they are valid, relevant and important questions. . . anyone who wishes to change, remove or otherwise destroy this wonderful resource should take a look at themselves, when they were first starting out. I was there one day, too, just as you were.
Learning.
I'll shut up, now. . .
Leave it alone and give it a rest, will ya!
Otherpower guys, Keep this wonderful resource available! Admins, understand. . .
We all started out as a child!
JMHO - YMMV
Doug