My top reasons to make sure your
Wind or Solar Energy Implementation Fails
(Please don't ask me how many of these I have done -Rover)

1. Totally ignore your location
   • Don't bother determining if your geographical area gets wind or enough sun
   • Build your windmill tower anywhere on your property, location of trees and other buildings is totally irrelavant
   • Place your solar panels on the slope of your roof that never gets sun, if a tree overhangs it, even better
   • Don't worry about the seasons and the effect of leaves on trees, shorter daylight hours, or the height of the sun at mid day.
   • Start planning your hydro power , even though there is no running water anyhwere near your location, it rains right?
2. Start off with really high expectations
   • Believe instantly that everything will work, go out and spend a lot of money
   • In fact, you should probably start by buying the grid tie inverter system so that you can sell power back to the Electric Co.
3. Don't do any research
   • Do not perform any searches on the Internet, or go to the library/bookstore for more information on the subject
   • Do not try to find opinions on anything you are about to , just do it
4. Believe that you know best in all circumstances
   • Repeatedly do things for which you have no experience and no knowledge.
   • Try to repeat your failures as often as possible withought changing anything, you know you will eventually get it right
   • Totally ignore any instructions from the manufacturer concerning installation height for your turbine, as long as the blades don't touch the ground you're fine
   • Try to avoid using common sense
5. Believe that all performance data provided by a manufacturer is valid
   • Start by assuming that all Wattage, and power figures describing a wind turbine or solar panel, are the minimum values
   • Totally ignore how the manufacturer determined the power rating, thing like short circuit voltage and amps since you KNOW these don't change values when connected to a battery
   • Believe that the wind speed / power curves provided by a manufacturer were probably done at or near your location, and under the same circumstances that you will be building your wind turbine setup.
6. Totally ignore any advice given by those who have done it before
   • Join a Internet forum specializing in alternative engery, ask a question, then answer it yourself, ignore anyone else that responds
   • In the same thread, post your justification, repeatedly
   • Answer any posts that are totally unrelated to anything you have done, will do, or have any knowledge of
7. Don't try to understand basic electrical principles
   • The following words/phrases should not be in your dictionary (watts, amps,volts, Ohm's law, short cirtcuit, AC, DC, fuse, switch, AWG, resistance, capacitance, 3 phase, ground.
   • Firmly believe that there really is no reason for different wire sizes, they will all conduct
   • Firmly believe that AC and DC can be intermixed as the both have "C"s in them.
   • Know that it doesn't matter what size inverter you connect to your one car battery bank , it won't hurt the battery, the inverter , or the Air Conditioning unit you have plugged into it
8. Believe that if it is on eBay , it has to be good
   • Immediately buy those blades/solar panels/alternators based on the description that they are better than anything else and will perform better than the stuff that came with unit you bought.
   • Ignore the fact that out of the 10,000 items sold by the vendor, this is the first time they have sold a solar panel
   • Ignore the fact that feedback seems to be all from the same buyer who has the same last name as the vendor
   • Never look at shippoing charges, especially if the vendor is overseas
   • Make sure you outbid anyone else, regardless of the final price