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"Ocean wind turbines are builr on plarforms, sometimes several hundred feet tall with very large blades that slowly rotate. Although there are several of these wind turbines in Western Europe and they're very effective, we don't have any in the U.S. yet. There's a controversy around the effort to develop this country's first offshore wind platforms in Nanrucker Sound, called the Cape Wind project. The problem is that people living at the coast don't want to be able to see the turbines. They don't want them ruining their beautiful view of the bay—and these are very wealthy individuals." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Right: One of Magenn's flying wind turbines. Opposite: Wave power represents a vast, untapped energy source. Tidal Power ¦m Few people are familiar with "hydro-kinetic" energy, the use of water motion to generate power. The potential is great, but commercial systems are only now starting to be developed. Questions remain, too, as to the impact of hydrokinetic-power systems on ocean environments. However, hydrokinetic-power systems don't clutter scenic areas like wind-power systems, and they are far less intermittent than either wind- or solar-power systems." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Farmers and ranchers receive an annual paymenr for providing the land to house wind turbines on their property. This is a significant opportunity for many to boost their income and represents a real solution to help stabilize rural economies by making the wind the next "cash crop." The Most Abundant Element Hydrogen is the simplest and most abundant element in the universe. On rhe Earth, hydrogen does not occur naturally as a gas but rather combines with oxygen to create water (H20). When hydrogen is combined with oxygen in a fuel cell, energy in the form of electricity is produced." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Although there are several of these wind turbines in Western Europe and they're very effective, we don't have any in the U.S. yet. There's a controversy around the effort to develop this country's first offshore wind platforms in Nanrucker Sound, called the Cape Wind project. The problem is that people living at the coast don't want to be able to see the turbines. They don't want them ruining their beautiful view of the bay—and these are very wealthy individuals." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Today, when you invest in GE, you're also investing in fuel cells, wind turbines, and photovoltaic technology. Buying shares in Chevron—with its energy conservation and renewable energy divisions and its widely recognized high environmental standards—or BP and Shell, both of whom are investing heavily in solar, is buying green equity. It isn't that these companies are by any means environmentally perfect—and in this book I've tried hard not to sugarcoat?" - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Windsave and Renewable Devices are two UK manufacturers who sell small wind turbines designed for the home. The Swift windmill from Renewable Devices is particularly attractive because it is specifically designed to reduce the noise and the potentially building-damaging vibrations that older small wind-turbine designs are known for. A small turbine is enough to offset a good portion of electricity use in a typical home. But when a microturbine is combined with a building-integrated solar system and high-efficiency consumption—relatively inexpensive." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "We can add building-integrated solar-photovoltaic shingles, rooftop panels, or wall/window units, and we can install rooftop or wall-mounted wind turbines. Solar photovoltaics are the most common form of home-generated power, and scores of books describe them. Many homeowners are proud to have solar panels bolted to their roofs; those who want the energy benefits without the bolt-on look can now use building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs). Most of these are "solar shingles," which do indeed cover your roof like shingles." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "If houses with solar panels on their roofs and wind turbines in their backyards make you think of communes and hippies, your mental picture is out-of-date. Anyone with a bit of a do-it-yourself mindset and a little disposable income can benefit from installing a home-energy system. These setups can save you real money over the long term and provide most or all of your power in clean, homegrown ways. For some of us, going off the grid isn't a matter of home improvement or rebellion against price-gouging utilities—it's the only option." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Wind-generated power could electrolyse water, producing clean hydrogen for fuel-cell-driven cars - but this would require another 4 million 1 MW wind turbines to displace a wedge-worth of petrol and diesel fuel. A massive programme of reforestation, combined with an end to the clear-cutting of tropical forests, might also deliver a wedge of carbon emissions reductions. All of these approaches have their pros and cons, of course." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "In the UK, the scientist James Lovelock is at least consistent; though he fulminates against wind turbines, he is a passionate advocate of nuclear power. With each side offering its miracle energy cure, the public is left with a false impression - that we simply have to choose one of the touted solutions and the problem will be solved. The reality is that only a combination of serious energy efficiency and a wide variety of new technologies offer any hope of a way out of the crisis." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Energy efficiency measures have fewer drawbacks - but improving efficiency in cars and buildings can have the surprising effect of increasing power consumption overall by making energy cheaper than it would otherwise be. wind turbines are visually intrusive, and onshore wind farms tend to be sited in highland areas which are visible for great distances. Offshore wind installations can be sited below the horizon if the seabed is shallow enough to allow it, but are more expensive to build and operate." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "We need to construct 2 million 1 MW wind turbines to generate electricity, and cover 2 million hectares of land with solar panels. We need to stop the destruction of tropical forests, and we need to dramatically increase tree cover elsewhere. And we need to make a difficult choice between injecting billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide underground and investing in 1,400 new gas power plants to produce electricity. All this, and we can hope to stabilise emissions in 2055 at today's levels, breaking the continual upward growth of a 'business as usual' path." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"How do we get exotic ores, chromium, titanium, from the few places that possess them to the foundries where the alloys are manufactured in order to manufacture wind turbines? What do we use to power the furnaces? Coal? Coal is generally mined using diesel-powered equipment. Well, artificial diesel fuel can be made from coal, or one can reinvent coal-powered steam shovels and the like, but it would be necessary to ramp up whole new industries on a shrinking petroleum energy base. Then what happens when the coal runs out? The coal industry predicts that the U.S." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "You can't manufacture metal wind turbines using wind energy technology. You can't make lead-acid storage batteries for solar electric systems using any known solar energy systems. The pseudo-fuel hydrogen will be considered in its own special category, as the popular hopes about it are based on higher orders of unreality. The so-called "hydrogen economy" centered around hydrogen-powered cars, as promised by President Bush in his 2003 State of the Union message, is at this point a fantasy, and an especially dangerous one insofar as it promotes complacency about the predicament we face." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The advanced nations could consciously commit themselves to dedicating some portion of the world's remaining oil endowment to the production of wind turbines, solar arrays, and batteries—but don't count on it happening. American leaders haven't paid attention to energy issues since the oil crises of the 1970s. It's hard to believe that we are suddenly going to behave more intelligently. Anyway, most of that remaining oil is not under American control. We are already fighting over it. What happens when the people of the world are locked in conflict over the remaining oil?" - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The energy captured by wind turbines can be captured or stored in ways other than electric batteries, especially during those times when a wind "farm" (a collection of windmills) is producing a surplus beyond what customers are using. One possibility is pumping water up into storage reservoirs to operate hydroturbines in offline periods. But this depends on favorable topography. It wouldn't work in Nebraska. And a substantial amount of energy would be lost in the conversion process." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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