Wind power

Since Jen & I will hopefully buy a house next year in the city we move to from St. Louis, I've been conducting research on energy efficiency for homes. One option, which seems to be a no-brainer, but has some start-up costs is installing some sort of windmill, or if in an urban/suburban area a small turbine, to use less energy from the electric company and generate some of your needs from the wind.

I'm not thinking about this from a standpoint of saving money on our electric bill, or being self-relient, but I think it's an option to reduce energy consumption and use the natural resources that God gave us in a way that eases some of the damage done to his good creation. I am not trying to sound like a rabid environmentalist, but I think that for too long Christians have bought into the Western utilitarian idea of economics over ecology.

That being said, if there are ways where we can be better stewards of our resources, then by all means, we should begin the dialogue, journey, etc, etc, etc to that point.
Here are some cool projects by crazy hippies who use the wind and sun to power their homes. http://www.otherpower.com/otherpower_wind.html