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Wind energy plans for a cleaner future

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19 June, 2010 - 12:40

PERALTA21

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The whole planet is under the magical spell of the Hollywood movie 2012 which says the world is coming to an end soon. But the world won’t end so soon if we make a sincere effort. We need to work hard and reduce the carbon footprint on earth to a considerable extend to survive happily for a long time. One of the better ways to avoid carbon footprint and the pollutions caused by fossil fuels is the use alternative energy resources. One among the highly demanding alternative energy resources is wind energy. Wind turbines are highly affordable and can be made easily. It’s very easy to make electricity from wind turbines. Nowadays many people have started using wind turbine plans, and have found them highly beneficial. Most of the wind turbine plans can be found in Wind Energy News and articles published in the research journals and websites of famous alternative energy research companies like World Energy Research. Often these plans are highly cheap and help you to produce electrical energy easily from wind turbines, at an affordable rate. Normally you need to spend thousands of dollars for other energy resources. But these cheaper wind turbine profitable plans can help you to save a lot of money.

You don’t have to be an expert to know these wind turbine plans. Any average educated man can understand these plans once they read the articles carefully. If you are interested in wind turbine plans research for some leading energy research journals and wind energy news, look for lucrative wind energy plans, and start producing clean energy soon!

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16 July, 2010 - 08:57

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Re: Wind energy plans for a cleaner future

From a Brno point of view, I really dont think Brno gets enough wind for Wind energy to be worth the money. In my home county of Galway in Ireland, we get gales coming off the atlantic which is used by a number of Wind Farms to top up the national Grid. Today Im seeing the flags flying in the hotel across the way from me, so that is telling me that today is a relatively windy day for Brno, today is one of the first days when there was any significant wind movement, and by Galway standards, this is a light breeze. Barely enough to move the turbine.

Whats wrong with Nuclear?

20 July, 2010 - 10:57

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IrishRover wrote:

Whats wrong with Nuclear?

I know of a few people who took advantage of a scheme where they put up solar panels on their houses or property. I think the EU even gave them grants to buy the panels, then the energy company has to buy back their excess energy for a "greener" solution. The problem is normal energy costs around 3Kc per kilowatts per hour (not sure the exact measurement, but just using it as an example) and when the electric companies buy the solar excess solar energy from these people they pay them 11kc per kilowatts per hour.

14 July, 2010 - 13:53

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Wind energy plans for a cleaner future

I and millions of others are not under the spell of the movie 2012. I watched it streaming for free and would like to have those two hours of my life back.

While some environmentalists are sincere, I am quite wary when anyone suggests reducing carbon footprints or that CO2 is dangerous. Humans exhale CO2 and to greatly decrease it we would have to kill off huge segments of the population, so in essence these people are eugenicists.

Also, all these carbon taxes are meant to kill off industry in the the west and move it to India and China where they can pay the slave labor pennies a day to produce your xboxes and ipads.

26 June, 2010 - 09:30

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I like wind energy, but......

There is always the bureaucratic side to worry about, and we must ALWAYS worry about it here in CR.

Maybe the base cost of the turbine is pretty low but it says nothing about building permits and their associated land surveys and local zoning laws. All of which must be considered before you put a dent in the earth with your spade or backhoe.

Could you even get away with erecting a turbine in your area or would zoning laws restrict you too much in the height of structures you could build?

All kinds of wider variables to consider that could nullify a lot of the savings , in my experience most "environmentalists" aren't so good at examining those wider variables before they start talking about jumping into the options with both feet.