Green Power Easy for DIY Wind Turbines January 21, 2010
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A while back, I received my monthly electric bill: $241. Not so bad that I was apoplectic, but it made me think. How much did I spend on electricity last year? I called the electric company and was told the total was
a little over three thousand dollars. And I live in a small midwestern town, where power is “cheap”.
I know some people in Los Angeles who routinely pay over $800 per month!
It was then that I decided to do something about this monthly drain on my bank account. I went shopping online for alternative energy sources.
After browsing through 20-30 thousand dollar dealer-installed systems for a while, I knew these were not for me. There had to be a cheap alternative, otherwise green power was going to be out of my price league. It was then I found several websites that promised inexpensive plans for inexpensive power, and I got busy researching the most popular ones. I`m glad I did.
I found that for a nominal fee of from 50-$100 I could buy plans to build my own turbine out of very inexpensive parts that were easily available. Now I only had to decide on which system to buy.
I settled on a new company after reading several unbiased reviews, and bought my plans. Not being a particularly mechanical person, I asked a friend to help, and after finding the parts we needed very cheaply, we assembled them, mounted the whole thing on a pole, and “fired it up”.
The wind speed that day was 10-15 miles per hour, and my buddy`s voltmeter said that my new toy was putting out about 90 volts. I was thrilled.
The next step was to call the power company and get a technician to come and install an extra meter,
[to count the money I was saving] and hook it to the power system.
Since I live in a windy state, my new generator worked pretty much 24-7, and when my next power bill arrived, I eagerly tore into it to find that I had saved $191 dollars that month.
That was about what I had invested!
Since then, I have saved an average of 81% off my power bill, and I am looking forward to installing another, identical unit so that the power company can pay ME for a change!
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The Cult of Consumerism and the Coming Depression January 10, 2009
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Millions have lost their jobs in the U.S. and all around the
world, mostly because of corporate greed and life styles that
have been unrestrained and out of control for decades.
Americans wrote the book on excess as long ago as the post-
world war II era, and we have carried the rest of the world, [quite
willingly] down the rabbit-hole of the “me” philosophy.
We have gone through recession before, always knowing that
the end would come in months or, at the most, a year or two,
but that was then, and this is now, and now is a bad time,
indeed for the economic outlook of the entire world.
The entire industrialized world has based its economy on
consumerism for so long that we have “eaten” a great deal of
the planet! We have consumed for the sake of consumption
and the economy has always been robust because of it.
Watch a few hours of television and you will see dozens of
ads. Take stock of the content of those ads and you will
realize that the vast majority are selling totally unnecessary
things, things not needed, but WANTED, and therein is the
catalyst for the economy of the world.
Soon the majority of us will wake up to the fact that we can
no longer afford these extravagances, as the poorest segments
of the population have always known. This realization will spell
the end of consumerism as we know it, and many millions more
will be unemployed.
Fewer jobs will equate to fewer tax dollars, which will equate
to fewer government projects, meaning fewer jobs, and the
economy spirals downward to heaven knows what level.
There are many things we can do to reduce our dependence
on government, the economy, and corporations that employ so
many of us, but the most immediate, [and easiest] thing should
be energy independence.
Power plants are responsible for a very high percentage of the
air pollution in the world, which causes global warming, the most
challenging crisis facing the planet today.
You can break your ties to the giant energy conglomerates
that hold our comfort for ransom each month by generating your
own power through solar and wind generation.
To learn how you can help save the planet, reduce your dependence on fossil fuels, and save many, many thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, visit here:
Barack Obama: Our First GREEN President? January 10, 2009
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to me. It`s the color of his politics that are of concern,
meaning, “is he green?”
The gap between whites and blacks, hispanics, and other
minorities grows ever smaller in this country and a black
or hispanic president, and eventually a female president,
was inevitable. Fifty years ago it was an impossibility for a
CATHOLIC to be elected to the highest office!
Mr. Obama has already stated in his speeches that part
of his economic stimulus plan would include big renewable
energy projects and that is encouraging.
After eight years of an administration that was thoroughly
in bed with the oil industry and two centuries of plundering
the planet in the name of the industrial revolution, it is time
to reassess our goals and the future of our planet.
We have burned collossal amounts of non-renewable,
highly polluting fossil fuels in the past two hundred years,
and that energy has given us a dream lifestyle filled with
conveniences and gadgets, toys and transportation that
would have been pure science fiction when Fulton invented
the steam engine and started it all. Unfortunately, we are
now paying a huge price for all these conveniences in the
form of air, soil, and water pollution, as well as global
warming, which, if allowed to continue unchecked, will soon
make our planet a terrestrial hell.
Fossil fuels are the culprit, so what to do about our depend-
ence on them should be foremost in our minds.
Not if, but when the ice caps melt, sea levels will rise at
least thirty feet, inundating almost every coastal city and
town on earth. There is great concern that the influx of all
that fresh water will stop the flow of the gulf stream and
bring on the next ice age.
Are we going to give up all the modern conveniences made
possible by the burning of fossil fuels? Of course not! But
there are things that everyone can do to reduce the size of
their carbon footprint, cheaply, as well as save many thou-
sands of dollars in energy costs!
If you want to learn how you can participate in the saving of the planet, as well as the saving of piles of your hard-earned money, go here:http://tinyurl.com/lw3396
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