Frederick, Maryland recently made news by announcing the construction of affordable, “net-zero” energy housing. Did you know about the wind power wave thats hitting downtown businesses? Check out some of these Powered by Clean Currents businesses below:

Frederick, Maryland recently made news by announcing the construction of affordable, “net-zero” energy housing. Did you know about the wind power wave thats hitting downtown businesses? Check out some of these Powered by Clean Currents businesses below:

From the testimony of Michael Vickerman in opposition to the request of Wisconsin Public Service Corporation to increase the cost of renewable energy purchased by customers in the NatureWise green-pricing program:

The purpose of my testimony is threefold: (1) to discuss how basing buyback rates on locational marginal pricing (LMP’s) penalizes low-risk renewable energy sources; (2) to encourage Wisconsin Public Service Corporation (WPS), with the support of the Commission, to establish a net energy billing tariff for small wind energy systems up to 100 kilowatts and (3) to urge the Commission to hold WPS’s NatureWise premium at 1.25 cents/kWh.

A map from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory shows areas with the potential for windpower and the associated transmission grid.

Company is a major player on the Colorado energy scene; feds levied $5 million fine against BP for under-reporting production on SW Colorado tribal lands

By Summit Voice

SUMMIT COUNTY — Along with its huge oil-spill mess in the Gulf of Mexico, BP has become a significant player in Colorado wind power. In May, the company’s Houston-based wind energy subsidiary announced that it reached a long-term power purchase agreement with Public Service Company of Colorado, an Xcel Energy company.

The Cedar Creek II wind farm will be located on 30,000 acres about 20 miles north of New Raymer, in Weld County and east of the existing 300.5 MW Cedar Creek I wind farm. BP expects that 250 workers will be employed during construction of the wind farm and an estimated 12-14 jobs will be created to monitor and maintain the facility once it is in full commercial operation. Read more

I decided to produce this short video after having done one on how oil production is polluting our planet. Most recently, the blowup in the Gulf of Mexico further supported the notion that there may be some real doubts about the cost/benefit of producing energy mainly from oil.
This video intends to show how in ancient times mankind used wind for power and energy, while minimally impacting the environment. With all the new technology and knowhow at our disposal, we need to use this avenue as much as possible, since it’s clean, renewable, cost effective and persistent.

Elements Used in this Production:
Photography all @ Flickr.com: Pixel Viking; Stuckincustoms; Doblonaut
Music: Forever and Ever by Divinity Project :: http://www.jamendo.com/en/track18230
Art, Animation & Montage: Leo Bar
Enjoy,
Leo
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Background & Research
Wind & Power
• “Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology”, Richard L. Hills, 1994.
• “Molens”, Frederick Stokhuyzen, 1962 (English summary).
• “Molendatabase” – pictures and descriptions (in Dutch) of windmills in the Netherlands.
• “Natural sources of power”, Robert Steele Ball (1908)
• “History of technology”, “Energy conversion” and “Windmills”, Encyclopedia Britannica.
• “Wind, Water, Work: Ancient And Medieval Milling Technology (Technology and Change in History)”, Adam Lucas, 2005
• “The windmill as prime mover”, Alfred R. Wolff, 1885
• “Industriemolens” – pictures of industrial windmills in the Netherlands
• “Windmills in Sussex”, Peter Hemming, 1936
• “Windmill sail”, Wikipedia English
• “Origen y expansion de los molinos de viento en Espana”, José Ignacio Rojas Sola y Juan Manual Amezcua Ogayar, Interciencia, Vol.30, 2005
• “The Evolution of Technology (Cambridge Studies in the History of Science)”, George Basalla, 1989
• “European Route of Industrial Heritages”