I have been reading a brand new book by Brian Dumaine from Fortune and Time and other august establishments. It’s called The Plot to Save the Planet
My first response to reading this was “Wow!”
There are a lot of different organizations working from many different angles trying to come up with products ands methods to […]

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We have all seen pictures of large expanses of traditional wind turbines. Each one turning in the wind.
But some of us are engineers and inventors. Some of us think: There must be a better way.
I have looked at Selsam’s parallel blades, I have studied the quiet revolution website. I have already written about […]

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There have been many soldiers who have died and many others who have been physically and psychically injured. My thoughts always go out to them, on more days than this one.
But I want to remember some others who have died. Every coal miner buried under tons of rock. (Over 6,000 in China […]

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A report from the U.S. Department of Energy has found that wind power is capable of becoming a major contributor to America’s electricity supply over the next three decades. The report, 20% Wind Energy by 2030: Increasing Wind Energy’s Contribution to U.S. Electricity Supply, looks closely at one scenario for reaching 20% wind energy by […]

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Storage of wind power is a key element to the success of wind energy, writes CNN in an article published yesterday about a research being carried out at Nottingam University by Seamus Garvey. First some figures: in Europe, the Danes are leading the way with wind power as 20 per cent of their electricity supply […]

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