As energy prices continue to rise worldwide, many homeowners in the US are becoming interested in renewable forms of energy to power their homes. Jeff Swicord introduces us to one horse farmer north of Washington DC who thinks the answer is small wind energy, in his case, personal wind turbines.
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Small Wind Energy on the Rise in US
Posted by admin on February 1st, 2011
Posted in Wind Power News 
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17 Comments »US Army Adopts Green Building Standards
Posted by admin on February 1st, 2011
www.dailyenergyreport.com; A list of the top renewable energy lobbyists in 2010, airborne wind turbines, the military adopts green building standards and LVX to use visible light to communicate.
Posted in Renewable Energy News Tags: .com, 1, 10, 2, 20, 2010, Air, airborne wind turbines, american wind association, and, army, build, building, by, co, Congress, Daily, daily energy news, daily energy report, do, E., energy, Energy News, energy report, green, green building, green building standards, in, INES, is, it, LED, LEED certification, light, lobbying, LVX, military, NASA, new, of, or, Port, renewable, renewable energy, report, St, standard, T., Tan, the, to, top, trina solar, turbine, turbines, UN, US, us army, use, visible light communication, WA, Win, wind, wind power, wind turbine, wind turbines 1 Comment »Successful Wind Turbines Need Room
Posted by admin on January 26th, 2011
Wind farm builders should space their turbines much further apart to generate power more efficiently, wind tunnel tests and computer simulations show. Large wind farms are being built around the world as a cleaner way to generate electricity, but operators are still searching for the most efficient way to arrange the massive turbines that turn [...]
Posted in Wind Power News Tags: .com, 1, 11, 12, 2, ABO, Air, and, around, art, be, build, builder, builders, built, cc, City, clean, co, computer, ed, efficient, el, elec, electric, electricity, equipment, farm, farms, for, GE, gene, generate, how, in, INES, IP, it, John, johns Hopkins univ., Laboratory Equipment, massive, model, more, MP, new, News, on, or, power, science, sea, show, simulations, source, space, St, T., test, tests, the, to, tunnel, turbine, turbines, turn, ty, UN, velocimetry, WA, way, Win, wind, wind farm, wind turbine, wind turbines, world No Comments »Renewable Energy: Wind Power
Posted by admin on January 25th, 2011
A Dorky Engineering Student explains how a homebuilt wind turbine create usable Electrical Power
Posted in DIY Green Energy Videos Tags: Al, built, create, do, Dork, el, elec, electric, electrical, energy, engine, engineer, engineering, engineering student, green, home, how, in, new, or, power, renewable, renewable energy, Rewable, SDSMT, St, student, turbine, US, USA, WA, Win, wind, wind power, wind turbine 25 Comments »Whisper Wind Turbine Tower Installation
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2011
See the installation of a Whisper wind turbine installation. Whisper wind turbines are made by Southwest Windpower.
live off grid
Posted by admin on January 23rd, 2011
GreenEnergyAdvice.blogspot.com To find out how these people managed to eliminate their power bill, also if you want to find out how you can make your own Solar Panel, Wind Turbine, and batteries to store energy visit www.GreenEnergyAdvice.blogspot.com energy home power solar energy…
Posted in Off Grid Living Tags: .com, Al, and, bat, batteries, bill, blog, co, E., ed, el, electricity, eliminate, energy, GE, green, grid, home, how, ice, in, is, it, live, live off grid, living, make, Man, of, off, or, out, own, panel, people, power, Sol, solar, solar energy, Solar Panel, St, T., the, to, turbine, visit, WA, Win, wind, wind turbine, your 1 Comment »Off Grid Self Sufficient Living Make Your Own Electricity – Pirate Lifestyle TV ™ Quickie 032
Posted by admin on January 17th, 2011
Quickie for the all NEW Pirate Lifestyle TV Show. We lived for 11 months without power company electricity with our Off-Grid electrical system. Today’s quickie, with everyone getting slammed with winter weather, is about becoming energy self-sufficient. What do I mean? I have always been interested in alternative living and alternative power. Aye, we be [...]
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Posted by admin on January 14th, 2011
GLOBE Tv correspondent Mike Cerre reports on how Denmark has pioneered sustainability initiatives from wind generators and bicycle commuting to using electric cars to reduce CO2 car emissions and as storage devices for renewable energy. Find out how the Danish island of Samsø has gone to 100% renewable energy over the past 10 years and [...]
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Posted by admin on January 14th, 2011
I helped out Evergreen Energy install this Proven 15kw machine on a 100′ tower on Avon Mt. in Connecticut. This is one of the news broadcasts from that day. There were three news crews there. We took a ton of pictures, worked really hard, and had a blast doing it.
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How many Wind Turbines would you need to power a city?
Questions from Readers: Read the Answers in the comments, or comment yourself! I am doing a project in Science (Essay) It involves Wind Turbines and Wind power. If there is a city of 122,000 people how many wind turbines would i need???? HELP ITS DUE IN TWO DAYS!!!! PLEASE HELP! IF YOU DO THANK YOU [...]