WHEN IS THE WHITE HOUSE GOING GREEN ? I.E WIND OR SOLAR POWER ?
or IS this another do as I say and not as I do with the Libs ?
" Global Warming IS BS " you are my new buddy
LOL, Good one Saturn
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Carter put in a 30,000 solar water heater that naturally didn't work 35 years ago
several presidents since then have have spent money on trying to make the white house more green.
As usual none of these expensive systems work very long or very well.
Heres a yahoo news story on it.
Http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090329/ap on go pr wh/greening the white house
congress reported a couple of years ago that they were going to eliminate the carbon foot print of the government power plant.
They got a lot of good publicity from it then quietly decided that it couldn't be done. Heres the story on that.
Http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090302/ap on go co/congress power plant 6
like all government feel good plans its a lot easier to say you're going to do something than to actually do it & make it work.
But what the hay, they get all the credit when they announce these goof ball plans. So they never even bother to try & do what they say.
Its easier to just pass laws to make everyone else do it.
Betty asks...
GOING GREEN?
how many of you are going GREEN?
and tell me how you are helping out!
tell me what you have stopped doing
and what you have started doing!
plz and thx
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
BIg TiMe dRaMa QuEEn
Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live completely, 100% "off of the grid and are completely self sufficient"
The house is built utilizing natures natural elements, in the shape of an octagon with 8ft wide arch doors on every wall to catch every angle of wind (typical 4 sided homes have half the chance as one with 8 sides. A circle being the most efficient design). Woodburning stoves, solar chimney, solar AC, solar heating, solar water heating (pool and home), solar stove, solar power, wind power, hydrogen powered back up generator, hydrogen back up water heater, hydrogen stove, 2 hydrogen powered trucks, 1 EV (electric vehicle) and satellite internet.
We also built many green small cabins on the ranch that we offer to family, friends and our on-site off-grid workshop guests, including one straw bale, one papercrete, earth bag and adobe, one cob and cordwood, one underground and rammed earth, one log and post and beam and one rock. Each one actually started as a test for what the main house would be and were later finished and turned into guest cabins. I later wrote a guide on how to build with alternative materials using alternative methods for next to nothing.
We raise meat and milk goats, chickens for meat and eggs, ducks for meat and eggs, trap havilina (wild boar pig), rabbit, quail. Brew our own beer from home grown products, preserve our fruits, vegetables, etc. Smoke and jerky the meat, make our own soap, cheese.
There are no utility lines, no water lines, no roads, tv, cell service, etc. On our ranch. EVERYTHING needed is produced here. All electricity comes from 27 solar panels, 2 main wind gens and a back hydrogen generator if needed (typically we can last 9 days with all luxuries of sunless windless weather, hasn't happened yet). Water is caught and storaged from the rain. Hot water is made with solar batch water heaters with an on-demand hydrogen hot water heater as backup. Even our vehicles use alternative energy (2 hydrogen trucks, 1 EV electric vehicle converted). Because of this we have no bills, no debt and no mortgage.
Anyone interested can check it out at..
Agua-luna com
Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you'd like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I'm willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I've written several how-to DIY guides available at http://www.agua-luna.com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.
Dan Martin
Retired Boeing Engineer now living 100% on Alternative & Author of How One Simple Yet Incredibly Powerful Resource Is Transforming The Lives of Regular People From All Over The World Instantly Elevating Their Income & Lowering Their Debt, While Saving The Environment by Using FREE ENERGY All With Just One Click of A MouseFor more info Visit:
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Jenny asks...
HOW DO I CALCULATE REQUIRED ELECTRIC POWER NEEDED TO RUN COMPUTERS WITH SOLAR PANEL?
I'm trying to figure out required solar panel devices to run a set of computer.
For example, 45 watt POWER supply computer with 65 watt laptop and 70 watt lcd monitor.
Second question IS..
Let's say I purchased 45 watt solar panel set. Can I use just powerful POWER converter to use all? or do I need more solar panels to juice POWER?
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
Hi I am the owner of Mountain Wind & Solar http://mountainwindnsolar.com (please be aware though that this website is still under construction).
What you need is a Kill-A-Watt meter. All you do is plug all of your appliances into a power strip, plug the power strip into the Kill-A-Watt meter, and then plug the Kill-A-Watt meter into the wall. The Kill-A-Watt meter will tell you how much power you are using. If you keep the Kill-A-Watt meter plugged in then it will add up the amount of power. You can also tell it the price of electricity in your area and it will tell you how much the appliance plugged in has cost you.
Kill-A-Watt meters are great tools that tell you a lot of information.
The cheapest one I have found online is at http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001&nm mc=OTC-Froogle where are you stuck?
Http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/wind-power.htm
David asks...
ARE THERE REBATES/INCENTIVES FOR SOLAR/WIND POWER IN THE DALLAS/FORT WORTH AREA?
I've found information on federal tax incentives, but I'm particularly interested in rebates for equipment purchase and installation. The city of Austin offers this, and in other areas rebates are offered by the POWER companies themselves. I can't find info particular to the Dallas/Fort Worth area, or energy providers in DFW.
WINDMILL FARMS ANSWERS:
I'm looking into wind power myself, and honestly, there are not many incentives other than the personal incentive to help out the environment and maybe save a little off of the monthly utility bill. Have you seen this page?
Http://www.dsireusa.org/library/includes/map2.cfm?CurrentPageID=1State=TX
You'll see that the only incentives in DFW are the same that are available to most of the state - property tax incentives. There are also net metering laws (for utility buy-back), and I imagine that Green Mountain Energy would be the most generous:
http://www.greenmountainenergy.com/texas/home.shtml
Here's a couple of providers including one that actually manufactures their unique design here in the metroplex:
http://www.helioselectric.com/index.html
http://mag-wind.com/
