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Wind Turbines–build Your Own Home Wind Turbine
In the United States wind energy is the second biggest source of new energy outpaced only by natural gas. At the end of 2007 wind turbines were producing over 16000 megawatts of electric power and nearly one third of that capacity was installed in 2007. In 2008 about 1% of the united States electric power will be supplied by wind energy. Most of this of course is from large commercial wind turbines but an ever increasing amount is coming from small wind turbines installed by individuals. The home wind turbine is definitely coming into its own as more and more people realise that something must be done to decrease our dependence on electric power supplied by fossil fuel burning generating stations. Gas and coal powered electric power production has increased dramatically over the years and emissions from the fuels
Click here to continue readingVertical windpower turbine by Mariah Power
Another alternative to propeller based wind turbines.
Vic Aguilar
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UpBeatnik
Duration : 0:2:2
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Click here to continue readingWind Turbine Shadow Flicker and Noise, Byron Wisconsin
When industrial wind turbines which are 40 stories tall are sited too close to people’s home there is trouble with noise and shadow flicker. Wind developers deny these problems exist and in the state of Wisconsin want to put them 1000 feet from houses. That’s 350 steps. This video shows what happens when wind turbines are irresponsibly sited. The nation is slowly waking up to the downside of wind energy. Developers lie to residents about the impacts these machines will have on the landowners and neighbor’s lives. They take advantage of those of us who want to do the right thing for our environment by telling us there will be no problem with noise, no problem with shadows, and no problem with putting turbines in bird migration flyways. The truth will out, eventually. For the residents in the town of Byron, Fond du Lac county, the truth is what they
Recycling In Scoraig – Scotland’s Wind-Powered Community
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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Click here to continue readingGreen-Trust.Org & Woodhenge.Org building wind turbines
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
