Posts Tagged ‘environment’

Jay Leno’s Green Garage: Wind Turbines

By admin On March 5, 2010 16 COMMENTs

As part of an ongoing project with Popular Mechanics to make his garage more sustainable, the Tonight Show host is getting set to install a state-of-the-art turbine on top of the shop.

Duration : 0:6:12

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Technorati Tags: environment, Jay Leno, Popular Mechanics, wind power, Wind-turbine

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Recycling In Scoraig – Scotland’s Wind-Powered Community

By admin On February 24, 2010 7 COMMENTs

Hugh Piggott is a pioneering creator of recycled wind turbines. He has managed to power and maintain an entire community on Scotland’s north-west coast where he runs courses teaching wind turbine construction to students from all over the world.

Original:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2008/may/19/wind.powered.community

Duration : 0:8:3

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Technorati Tags: economics, energy, Engineering, environment, power, RECYCLING, renewable, Scoraig, Scotland, WIND

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Green-Trust.Org & Woodhenge.Org building wind turbines

By admin On February 18, 2010 25 COMMENTs

Green-Trust.org and Woodhenge.org on Discovery’s Science Channel “Invention Nation”

Aired on December 17th, at 10pm Eastern time. The Science Channel is found on both cable and satellite TV. Check out http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/11/invention_nation.php. You will see show hosts Chris, Nobu, and Micah learning to build a 1000 watt wind turbine from scratch, which helps power our off-grid home. More information on our wind turbines can be found at
http://www.green-trust.org, http://www.woodhenge.org and http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/axialflux/.

Get the Wind Power Workshop, by Hugh Piggott, to learn how to build your own wind turbine as seen on our Science Channel episode.

Duration : 0:5:57

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Technorati Tags: DIY, electronics, energy, environment, green-trust, invention, juczak, mechanics, Nation, offgrid, power, spence, WIND, woodhenge

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Making Wind Power A Reality

By admin On January 6, 2010 NO COMMENTS

Juan de Bedout, a scientist at General Electric’s Global Research Center discusses wind power at a recent energy briefing at the Technology Center.

Duration : 0:3:57

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Technorati Tags: demand, Ecomagination, ELECTRIC, energy, environment, GE, general, green, on, power, WIND

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The Future of Wind Power

By admin On December 11, 2009 2 COMMENTs

(April 16, 2008) Christina Archer, consulting assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, discusses the importance of win power in a clean and renewable future. The Energy Seminar meets weekly during the academic year. For a list of upcoming talks, visit the events page at the Woods Institute for the Environment website.

Stanford University

http://www.stanford.edu/

Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford:

http://woods.stanford.edu/

Christina Archer

http://www.stanford.edu//~lozej/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Duration : 0:56:25

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Technorati Tags: california, Carbon Footprint, Climate change, conservation, economics, energy, environment, federal, government, Intermittency Storage, Leadership, Offshore, policy, politics, re, Regulation, renewable energy, Stanford, Sustainability, TURBINE, wind power

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