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Tan Hill Inn revisited

Hans Rostek — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:44:24 +0000

Tan Hill Inn revisited, Everest return to fit energy efficient double glazing and solar panels to Britain’s highest pub and film new TV ad.Everest TV ad, Everest commercial, Everest TV commercial, Everest Ad, Tan Hill Inn.

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The POWERSHED – Solar Power System

Hans Rostek — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 01:44:16 +0000

KWQC-TV6 – Made in the Quad Cities Area interviews Mark Turczynski, president of Midwest Engineering Consultants, on the POWERSHED. POWERSHED is a 2.688 kW portable solar system with Enphase Energy micro-inverters.

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Thanksgiving Part #3

Hans Rostek — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:44:01 +0000

Snowshoeing on our property. Mile and a half!

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Samsung LN40A550 “C” Panel and “S” Panel Comparison

Hans Rostek — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 05:44:37 +0000

*CLICK HIGH QUALITY* There are many different panels for the Samsung LN40A550 and here is a comparison to of the “C” panel and the “S” panel. The “S” panel is known to look better. I purchased two of the exact same model and hooked them both up via a splitter using the *exact* same cabling and set both tvs to factory settings. The “S” panel is on the right and the “C” panel is on the left. The “S” panel looks noticibly better… So, if your in the market for this (great) tv, try to get the “S” panel if you can. *I got the “S” panel from Circuit City in December 2008 and the “C” panel from Newegg also in December 2008. This is what a S panel looks like: i9.photobucket.com This is what a C panel looks like: i9.photobucket.com

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Make Your Own Wind Turbines – Cheap DIY Wind Turbine Make Simple Home Windmill Generator

Hans Rostek — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:45:38 +0000

Visit WindPower4Homes.net for details. Get step-by-step instructions on how to Build and Install your own wind turbines and solar panels to save TONS OF MONEY on your electricity bill. Make your own FREE electricity and lower your energy bill down to ZERO. Learn how you can force your power company to pay YOU by law for any surplus energy that you generate! Full color detailed instructions and step-by-step videos make building DIY solar panels and wind turbines easy enough for a novice to follow. Visit http for details. # DIY 1000 watt wind turbine We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It’s a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase… www.instructables.com/id/DIY-1000-watt-wind-turbine/ – Cached – Similar # Wind Power Generators — Windmills Jump to DIY Windmills?: Good personal site on DIY wind generator design and build. Several projects described, program for wind generator sizing. … www.builditsolar.com/Projects/Wind/wind.htm – Cached – Similar # DIY vertical axis wind turbine – Hack a Day Sep 28, 2008 … This vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) uses five 3 PVC pipes cut in half for blades rotating on three kids bicycle wheels to spin an Ametek … hackaday.com/2008/09/28/diy-vertical-axis-wind-turbine/ – Cached – Similar # Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Wind Turbine DIY Build your own 100 watt pvc wind turbine as a science project. Generate your own power from the wind. greenterrafirma.com/DIY_Wind_Turbine.html …

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How To Make Wind Turbine at Home

Hans Rostek — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:45:48 +0000

www.WindEnergyGuide.net – 100% Homemade Electricity Producing Wind Turbine Several years ago I bought some remote property in Arizona. I am an astronomer and wanted a place to practice my hobby far away from the sky-wrecking light pollution found near cities of any real size. I found a great piece of property. The problem is, it’s so remote that there is no electric service available. That’s not really a problem. No electricity equals no light pollution. However, it would be nice to have at least a little electricity, since so much of life in the 21st century is dependant on it. One thing I noticed right away about my property is that most of the time, the wind is blowing. Almost from the moment I bought it, I had the idea of putting up a wind turbine and making some electricity, and later adding some solar panels. This is the story of how I did it. Not with an expensive, store-bought turbine, but with a home-built one that cost hardly anything. If you have some fabricating skills and some electronic know-how, you can build one too. Let me state up front that I probably won’t be able to help you out much if you decide tobuild your own wind turbine. This web site has become insanely popular, often taxing the bandwidth limits of the server. I get dozens of requests for help each day. I simply don’t have time to answer the majority of them. Simple questions which only require a quick and simple answer may get replies if time permits. However, there is no way I can help you …

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Serbot Robot Clean Ant Profi

Hans Rostek — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:46:28 +0000

Serbot Robotic Climbing System for cleaning facades and solar panels

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Green Wave on CNN.wmv

Hans Rostek — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:44:05 +0000

CNN Building up America: Green technology a beacon of hope? Green Wave’s prototype product a light pole powered by a windmill and solar panels. Casey Wian CNN Correspondent Skeptics might say Mark Holmes is tilting at windmills. The long-time attorney started his new alternative power company, Green Wave Energy, in October 2008, during the depths of the US financial crisis. Well, we had a major financial meltdown, everybody was in a panic. Those were really dark days and we figured, what better time to start a company? Holmes said. We visited the Newport Beach, Calif. shipyard that is home to Green Waves prototype product, a potentially revolutionary light pole powered by a windmill and four solar panels. It operates completely off of the electric grid, and can actually generate enough excess power to run a 1000-watt appliance. Green Wave Energy is funded by 33 partners, mostly friends, acquaintances and colleagues of CEO Holmes, whose career as a corporate lawyer included cases involving both the marine and alternative energy industries. Together, theyve raised a little more than $200000 in cash, and nearly $3 million in products and services to launch the company. They hope to soon be providing light to places like Haiti and other remote locations without easy access to the electric grid. One partners busy shipyard is where Green Waves World Light Pole is tested. Another partners SUV and trailer serve as a makeshift wind tunnel, saving the company $50000 a day. And a …

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Sustainability Initiatives at UWS

Hans Rostek — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:44:17 +0000

UWS has installed several large underground rainwater tanks to provide water for hundreds of new trees planted at the Werrington South campus. Solar panels generate electricity to pump rainwater to all the trees, and also feed excess power back into the grid. UWS also has a range of researchers and research centres committed to the sustainability agenda, including sustainability in an urban context.

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BBtv World: Green tech and internet in West Africa

Hans Rostek — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:44:02 +0000

BBtv online: tv.boingboing.net. In this installment of Boing Boing tv’s ongoing BBtv WORLD series, I travel to the West African nation of Benin to visit the Songhaï Center, a green tech project designed to develop a new generation of “agricultural entrepreneurs,” and foster economic sustainability. Benin is nestled between Ghana, Togo, and Nigeria along the continent’s midwest coast — this shore was historically known as the “Slave Coast,” and Benin was a major center in export of slave labor to the Americas. Today, Benin’s people are struggling with a cultural shift from a traditional, mostly agrarian society, to a more urban, industrialized economy — and the largely impoverished country depends on foreign aid. The Songhaï Center was founded in the mid-’80s by Father Godfrey Nzamujo, a Dominican priest and Nigerian native, on a few acres of swampland granted by Benin’s former president. What began as an experiment in small-scale sustainable development to fight poverty has since become a popular institution, and a symbol of Africa’s potential for self-determination and prosperity. Aid creates dependence, but small businesses foster independence, the group’s logic goes — and unlike other anti-poverty projects, this one exports more than it imports specialty food and beverage products produced here (cashew butter, cookies, fruit beverages) are sold and shipped to France and elsewhere around the world. In this episode, we walk through the main Songhaï Center in Porto …