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[Ecofriend] The Magnetic Levitation wind-turbine is designed by a new Arizona-based company that aims to produce a gigawatt of clean energy (enough to power 750,000 homes), at a cost of about one cent per kilowatt an hour estimate, in comparison to the present day large wind turbines that produce 5 megawatts of power. It is an amazingly huge structure with a roughly estimated footprint of 100 acres, while several hundred meters in height.

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[TerraMadre Blog] Solar Panel Rental? It’sa Thought. Giant Wind Turbines, Definately ...: idea to help us average folks in our quest to achieve sustainability in the renewable energy department.  Their idea is to lease solar panels and equipment to individuals and other types of consumers, rather than selling the system.  Granted, the typical user will not obtain all of the benefits of ownership, but the cost of attaining “off the grid” status is markedly reduced!  The upside/downside numbers appear quite attractive to those who have a solar-friendly installation base (line-of-sight sun availability with minimal shading, etc.)  The bottom line is, of course, getting off the “oil addiction”

[CPRE Debates] Climate change and the countryside « CPRE Debates: In 2005, the Commons’ Committee of Public Accounts criticized this arrangement: - “The Renewables Obligation is currently at least four times more expensive than the other means of reducing carbon dioxide currently used in the United Kingdom……Requiring users to source supplies from uneconomic providers has the same affect as taxing users to subsidize the providers, but is not as transparent or amenable to parliamentary control.”

[EcoGeek.org] Offshore Wind Turbine? Put it on an Oil Rig! | EcoGeek - Clean ...: I think it's great to see alternatives being pursued, and let's face it, something will have to be done with all those oil rigs when there's no oil left for them to produce. It's a good example of thinking along the lines of other practical recommendations such as those put forward by the experts in Agenda for a Sustainable America.

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[TechNews AM] Update - Editing the Darwin Bootloader in a 2x/3x Booting Wind ...: If you’ve been following the series that Dan and I have been doing on the MSI Wind, then you need to take a look at this.  There’s a quick update you can make the the Darwin Boot Loader on the OSX side that will give your multi-booting Wind a bit more polish.

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[Green Blog] Green Blog » Blog Archive » From Madrid to Salamanca, Eco-Friendly ...: The rest of the way is grass, hills, rocks and trees”¦I want to say that it’s an open canopy savannah. Part of the density may be caused by the seemingly inhospitable terrain in western Spain but a big part is that these cities were build before the car so they are built on a human scale (unlike some American cities I could name).

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