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Foldable, portable windmill(0)

January 26, 2010

You never know which way the wind will blow, or when you might need to harness its power.  Now, with the Eolic foldable, portable windmill you never have to worry again.  The Eolic, a portable turbine can be mounted on its telescopic pole in just three steps.  Imagine using this little beauty on a camping [...]

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Turning a brown site green in Fairhaven, MA

Every once in a while a project comes along that everyone can support. The Town of Fairhaven, MA has just such a project. They are proposing to build a solar power plant on top of the town landfill turning a ‘brown site’ – ‘green’.
The proposed plant will generate about 500kw of energy which the town [...]

Nantuckets Restaurant’s Personal Power Plant

The owner of the Nantuckets Restaurant in Fenwick Island, Delaware is also the operator of a “personal power plant” for the business.  Instead of waiting for his utility companies to go green,” Dave Twining took matters into his own hands, with a distributed generation renewable energy installation of 48 rooftop solar panels and a 45-foot [...]

Texas Wind Power Lowering Electricity Costs

Who says renewable energy cannot make a positive difference?  Just this week, a report was issued by a Wall Street research group, Bernstein Research, to evidence that Texas wind power is lowering electricity costs in the Lone Star State.  Texas is considered a national leader with respect to wind power.  And, world-wide it ranks as [...]


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