It's free, it can be extremely simple, everyone has access. We don't need 5 year wind studies, or million dollar turbines. This little puppy was spinning around like crazy on a 10 foot pole in someone's yard. Now if they only had it hooked up to a generator...
Donna Cooper, Elder Care
Don't tell me it has to be expensive!
Willett Kempton, Professor, University of Delaware
U Delaware, Offshore Wind Seminar 2005
I teach and do research on wind energy. It is the one renewable energy technology able to have a major effect on displacing CO2 emissions quickly. Also a source of jobs for our students. Photo (c) University of Delaware
Chandrashekar Tamirisa
It is free and it pays.
Peter Stricker, Executive
Wind Turbine in Afganistan circa 1960's - photo credit: Kent Bullard
It's clean, simple, doesn't use water resources, and has made sense as energy source for hundreds of years. Why not?
Dan Hartman
We're not the only ones interested in the future!
This is my grandaughter Grace. After overhearing a conversation I had with another supporter of alternative energy, she asked me why everyone is so concerned about changing our world...then she added "it's beautiful just the way it is". What a lesson in perspective that was! I had no idea she even thought about anything that profound. When I think aboput her comment, I work even harder to do all I can to perpetuate Gracie's world. However I can.
Libbie Ellis, self-employed, retail
DJ's trawler, cruising with 2 KISS microturbines
Cruisers, living aboard and traveling long distances with no access to dock power, MUST have their own onboard power plants. Combined wind power and solar power complement one another and showcase the best that each has to offer. Solar modules charge the batteries whenever the sun shines; a wind generator charges the batteries whenever the wind blows.
My husband & I lived aboard our cutter-rigged sloop and sailed her throughout the Caribbean for 4 years, generating our own electricity with wind & solar along the way. Since returning to the States, we've been helping other mariners solve the same kinds of challenges. We are the U.S. distributors for the KISS High Output wind generator made in Trinidad, West Indies, and optimized for cruising sailboats in the Trade Winds. This photo shows two KISS High Output wind generators on the trawler of one of our happy customers.
Dan Hartman
Wind Energy Brings People Together
Never before has any issue galvanized the inter-governmental cooperation like the wind industry. We now have 19 counties working together to encourage the development of wind energy in NW Kansas replacing the "we can go it alone" mentality of so many decades before. Wind energy has taught us we can work together for the benfit of us all. What a great lesson that is!
Patrick O'Keefe, Product Sales Manager - Wind Towers
Somewhere over the rainbow
I have been in the wind business for 24 months, and I feel that I am finally doing something that matters. We have a global crisis as the price of oil rises, and the renewable energy sector is great way to do your part as a citizen.
Jim Spath, Technology Architect
Just paper / on my scanner
I chose to switch energy suppliers from nuclear/coal/oil/hydro to 100% wind to reduce my carbon footprint.
Lawrence Fine, consultant - designer - fabricator
clean power, renewable energy, nuff said
clean power, renewable energy, nuff said
