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Green-Trust.org and Woodhenge.org on Discovery’s Science Channel “Invention Nation” Aired on December 17th, at 10pm Eastern time. The Science Channel is found on both cable and satellite TV. Check out www.treehugger.com You will see show hosts Chris, Nobu, and Micah learning to build a 1000 watt wind turbine from scratch, which helps power our off-grid home. More information on our wind turbines can be found at www.green-trust.org, http and tech.groups.yahoo.com Get the Wind Power Workshop, by Hugh Piggott, to learn how to build your own wind turbine as seen on our Science Channel episode.

Hugh Piggott is a pioneering creator of recycled wind turbines. He has managed to power and maintain an entire community on Scotland’s north-west coast where he runs courses teaching wind turbine construction to students from all over the world. Original: www.guardian.co.uk

This vid shows the various steps in planning and having a company (Real Goods Carlson: www.realgoodssolar.com install photovoltaic solar electric power in my rear yard in San Diego; definitely more challenging than a roof installation. My rationale for this: reduce my carbon footprint, buy / own my energy (like I do my house), help address CA’s energy shortfall and take advantage of the state and US government incentives for early adopters to save on the installation. I just uploaded it to Repower America: www.repoweramerica.org

Featured in Popular Science alongside GE and Google on products that they see as game changers: www.popsci.com Fast Company Magazine has this to say about the Jellyfish: www.fastcompany.com Jellyfish Wind Power Concept: What if you could plug renewable wind energy into the wall just like a blender or a toaster? Instead of using power, a wind appliance actually generates it! For more details visit: www.clariantechnologies.com Smart-Grid Enabled: With onboard Wi-Fi/WiMAX the Jellyfish is also smart-grid enabled. Today, wind and solar-powered homes are operated as autonomous points within the local electrical grid. However, they are an overlooked, yet important electrical power resource. If instead, each were harnessed collectively and tied interactively with the local utility grid as a Point-to-Grid (P2G) power generator, or even regulator, considerable economic, environmental and system reliability benefits are possible. By itself, each of these power sources is indeed small in its impact on the power system. In the aggregate, however, the economic value of P2G power is significant, more than enough to offset the initial cost of installing the required control hardware and integrating these systems with the local utility grid. Equally important, the necessary regulatory and energy distribution infrastructure, and hardware components to enable a number of different types of P2G-based systems are already in place today. The convergence of existing distributed electric power …

One village in India’s Madhya Pradesh state is getting a little more environmentally friendly. They discovered a unique way to generate power by using sewage water. Let’s take a look. Residents of Kodipura village in Madhya Pradesh have discovered a new way to generate electricity through human waste. A plant was constructed on the outskirts of the village that uses sewage water to generate five kilowatts of electricity. [Halkeram Maheshwar, Local]: “One three horsepower motor is run and water is supplied through it. The electricity is also used by the community hall. All the lights and fans consume the same electricity. We are also planning to further supply electricity in the village.” The power plant also benefits the farming community. [Shiv Narayan Sharma, Former Village Head]: “We use this electricity to draw water from a well that we have dug. We use the water to irrigate the 3-4 acres of land surrounding the plant. We have sown soybean. We are also planning to make a cowshed here, so that we can also utilize cow dung to produce more gas.” The plant is financially supported by the state government. Locals believe the plant has also improved the sanitation in the village. It’s seen as a leap towards environment conservation.

A video of my small solar project at home. It works well and im pleased with it. I am prepared for a hurricane, when power goes, i will have lights.

Juan de Bedout, a scientist at General Electric’s Global Research Center discusses wind power at a recent energy briefing at the Technology Center.