Sorry mate, that's not free energy the way you demonstrated. You just used your gasoline to propel the vehicle to drive the wind mill, a very inefficient way of converting petrol to electricity I would assume :) Yeah yeah, a bit pedantic, but still, would be nice to see what kind of gale force would be needed to spin that mill.

Fantastic. Thanks for this. Two questions:

1) Am I correct in assuming this output could be run into a charge controller to charge a battery bank?

2) Would such battery bank setup and charge controller need 12 volt output? If so, could a treadmill motor and this setup produce enough rpm to generate?

Realize this is a lengthy discussion to answer fully. Just a few brief and key points would help, if you are able to answer.

Thanks!!

I was wondering about a omnidirectional system. Where the motor is facing upwards, and a set of vertical fins setup in a circle would generate power without having the device to rotate to match wind direction.

I followed his basic design but went with a 2 1/4 horse 10amp 90 volt treadmill motor. I also changed materials for the blades to 900 pvc waterpipe in 8 inch, you would be amazed at how solid and thick it is! I solved the wiring issue by using orange construction cord wich someone donated and drilling a large hole through the rail so the cord could be run through the pipe anchor bolted underneath, just make sure to leave a little slack inside your pipe! I anchored my pipe in a bead of concrete inside a 1/4 of a 55 gallon blue barrel on a 1 1/2 inch galvenized hinge made from 2 street elbows a tee and 2 8 inch nipples. I then added guide wires and tensioners, hacked off the reciever for my hitch on my mobile home and welded 2 2 1/2 inch muffler clamps into it - to clamp to the pipe! it produces about 30 vdc with a light wind. I brought the wires through the wall of the kitchen and added a 1200 watt galaxy modified sine wave inverter with 3000 watt high surge, tommorrow I am adding my 45 watt solar setup to the mix! I am using everstart maxx marine deep cycle batteries from walmart, they are 120 amp hour batteries. I have 2 so far. When it is all finished I will throw up a video of it all. When I'm done I should be able to power most of my kitchen and living room grid free!!!

Free electricity, huh? Like parts and labour used are free.

OK, now serious:
Never seen motor used, but it looks designed for indoors. Just how soon you will climb windmill mast for repairs?
Blade manufacturing process gives you 2 (two) blade per pipe segment, 2 segments gives 4 (four) blades. Why the hell three blades per turbine? Four-bladed turbine are easier to assemble (90°) and balance (completely absent from video), +33% efficiency included.