While many have risen to the challenge of using wind power in innovative and ostentatious ways, on large-scale building or sleek-and-fast vehicles, one of the biggest obstacles remaining to widespread wind power use is at the smallest and most local of scales: the individual home. Designs like this one that operate with low noise levels, at low speeds, for low budgets and can take advantage of omnidirectional winds are making wind power more and more accessible to everyday houses and individualized applications. (Source)