Best practices for homebuilt AC wind turbine?

 Hello,

I am thinking about taking the generator from a gasoline powered unit
and driving it using wind power.

I have looked at the problem and studied the information on this
newsgroup and several websites and determined that the only way to
successfully implement this generator in a homebuilt wind system that
provides both battery back-up for grid outages and grid-tied power
reselling is to convert the 110/220V AC output of the generator into
DC and then treat it like a DC generator to charge batteries and
connect to a grid-tie inverter.

My questions then are:

Can I simply use one of the tiny bridge rectifiers I see on eBay and
on some websites to convert the AC produced by the generator into
usable DC in this application, or would I need some other kind of
conversion?

And once rectified into DC, I can just connect it to a controller, and
then to batteries and the grid-tie inverter, correct?

Thank you for your help!  With gas once again rocketing toward $3.00/
gal. in my area, I am looking forward to purchasing an Electric
Vehicle and powering my car with the ample wind resource at my home.

Czouch