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Design your own Renewable Energy Systems
Renewable Energy Solutions.... use wind and solar energy to reduce your power bills or completely eliminate them.
Living off the Grid..... newsletter that helps with off grid living, renewable energy, solar panels, and how to build your own homemade wind generator.
Wind Energy Guide....an informative guide to wind power and battery systems.
Teach yourself Solar Power.... build your own solar power system with this easy to follow guide.
Eco-Friendly Fuel Systems
Convert your car to run on water....drive your car using water as fuel while reducing emissions and preventing global warming.
Alternative Fuel Systems.... Learn how to run your car on water, hydrogen fuel systems, make biodiesel, and save money.
Make your own Biodiesel.....run your car on this environmental friendly fuel.
How to Save Money on your Energy Bills
Ultimate Gas Saver Guide....cut your gas spending in half.
Cut your Heating and Electric Bills in Half....homeowners, landlords, and renters looking to save.
Green Business Opportunities
Secrets of Battery Reconditioning....transform totally dead batteries to 100% charge capacity.
Socially Responsible Recycling Business....learn the secrets to recycling cell phones and protect the environment.
Clean Energy Grants from the US Government
Learn about Renewable Energy Grants from the US Government....tutorial for writing grants and getting funds for clean energy programs from the government.
Federal Grant Sources....search for renewable energy grants for your state.
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Wind Vision...The Future of Wind Power
With large untapped wind energy resources throughout our country and declining wind energy costs, the United States is now moving forward into the future with an aggressive initiative to accelerate the progress of wind technology and reduce its costs, create new jobs, and improve environmental quality. Increasingly competitive prices, growing environmental concerns, and the call to reduce dependence on foreign energy sources, will create a strong future for wind power Also, wind turbines are getting larger and more sophisticated, investments in eco-freindly businesses are abundant, and a pro-renewable energy government will usher in unprecedented growth in the wind industry.
Wind is the fastest growing energy source in the world, enjoying an average annual growth rate of nearly thirty percent over the past ten years, compared to less than three percent for fossil fuels. Although Europe represents well over half of the world market, the United States and China are now leading that growth, expanding their generating capacity by 45 percent and 134 percent respectively in 2007. The global wind market is now valued at $36 billion, and in recent years wind turbine manufacturers have struggled to keep pace with exploding demand. Making the right investments in wind power today will significantly reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and give our citizens clean, eco-friendly, renewable energy.
The limit to our future exploitation of wind power will be set by economic and environmental factors, since the wind resource available is far larger than any practical means found to develop it to date.
The Pickens Plan
The Pickens Plan is a major energy policy proposal announced July 8, 2008 by American businessman T. Boone Pickens to reduce the United States dependency on foreign oil imports by investing approximately US$1 trillion to build vast wind turbine farms for power generation, and then by shifting the natural gas used for power generation to fuel automobiles.
The Pickens Plan could cut the amount the country spends annually on foreign oil by $300 billion. He has proposed the following steps:
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Using the United States' wind corridor, private industry will fund the installation of thousands of wind turbines in the wind belt, generating enough power to provide 20 percent or more of the country's electricity supply.
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Again funded by the private sector, electric power transmission lines will be built, connecting these wind power generating sites with the power grid, providing energy to the population centers in the Midwest, South and Western regions of the country.
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With the energy from wind now available to serve the large population centers in key areas of the country, the natural gas that was historically used to fuel natural gas-fired power plants can be redirected and used as a fuel for private cars and thousands of vehicles in the transportation system. This reduces the need for imported gasoline and diesel fuels.
The Pickens Plan significantly reduces carbon dioxide emmisions because it shifts a percentage of electricity production from combustion to carbon neutral wind power. Automobiles would still produce carbon dioxide whether combusting natural gas or gasoline, but combustion of gasoline produces much larger amounts of nitrogen oxides than combustion of natural gas.
New Wind Power Ideas and Inventions
The Windbelt is a device for converting wind power to electricity. A windbelt is essentially an aeolian harp except that it exploits the motion of the string produced by the the aeroelastic flutter effect to move a magnet closer and farther from one or more electromagnetic coil and thus inducing current in the wires that make up the coil.
SkySails propel cargo ships, large yachts and fishing vessels by the use of wind energy. The SkySails propulsion system consists of a large kite, an electronic control system for the kite and an automatic system to retract the kite. The system bears similarities to kitesurfing. A ship equipped with the current SkySails could consume from 10 to 35% less oil.
Airborne wind turbines are a design concept for a wind turbine that is supported in the air without a tower. A tether would be used to transmit energy to the ground. These systems would have the advantage of tapping an almost constant wind and doing so without a set of slip rings or yaw mechanism, and without the expense of tower construction.
One thing is certain about the future of wind power, we are limited only by our eco-imagination and the technology available because wind energy is abundant and inexhaustible.
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