Air X Wind Turbine

When it comes to your home and renewable power, you really only have two choices: solar power and wind power.  Most people go with solar power simply because it’s less intrusive, but it can be very expensive.  Wind power, while requiring turbines, may actually be cheaper.  The Air X Wind Turbine, for example, can provide all the power one needs for some basic appliances and lights.  You can actually use it to run your television, for example, or you can use it to charge up batteries and provide backup power if your electricity ever goes out.

With winds of 12 mph or so, the Air X Wind Turbine can generate up to 38 kilowatts of power every month.  It can provide either 12, 24, or 48 voltage, allowing you to use it to power multiple items.  If you need to power a cabin in the woods, a monitoring station, or any other remote location, the Air X Wind Turbine is an excellent choice.  It’s also a very quiet turbine, so you won’t hear any annoying noise from it.  It actually slows the blades down as it reaches its top rated output so it won’t make that fluttering noise that many turbines make in high winds.  Also, the turbine has a high wind safety mode, so it will automatically slow down the turbines if the wind speed gets too high.

If you happen to live on a boat or own a boat, the Air X Wind Turbine can be very useful there, too.  It’s one of the top rated wind turbines for sailboats, and it gives you great versatility in powering up any sailing vessel.  It also features marine powder coating and is made from stainless steel, so you don’t have to worry about corrosion or rusting.

If you’re looking for a great alternative energy source but don’t want to deal with installing solar panels, take a look at wind power.  The Air X Wind Turbine shows that you don’t need a huge propeller in your back yard to take advantage of it.

UK Launches Recycle Week with Recycled Sculpture

While the Coca Cola company hasn’t always been eco-friendly (there have been rumors regarding pesticide use and Coke has been involved in battling some recycling legislation), they’ve also worked to help the environment.  The company has electric delivery vehicles and they’ve added wind power to some of their manufacturing plants.  Well, now the company has done something else—they’ve trashed the UK coastline with millions of aluminum cans!

But wait, before you judge the company harshly, know that this was planned.  Coke has created a huge recycled sculpture to celebrate and support the UK Recycle Week, the week between June 22nd and June 28th.  The sculpture is more than 50 meters across and is made completely from used aluminum cans.  The image created is from Coke’s 1949 summer poster and features a woman relaxing on the beach with a large bottle of Coke behind her.  The sculpture has been dubbed the world’s largest sculpture to be created out of all recycled materials.

Recycle Week and the giant sculpture were created to help bring more attention to recycling and what it can do for the environment and the amount of energy we use.  Throughout the rest of the week, various recycling programs and activities will be held across the UK.

In addition to creating the sculpture and sponsoring many Recycling Week activities, Coke has also launched an educational program promoting recycling and is actively working to create recycling stations in shopping centers, parks, and airports.  The idea here is to make it just as easy to recycle when out in public as it is when at home.  While aluminum recycling is certainly a part of these stations, it’s not the only focus: paper, glass, and other materials will also be recycled.

Backyard Wind Turbines

If you’re looking for the newest thing in backyard wind turbines, here are three different options.  Each one will help you generate a large amount of wind power for your home, but there’s a major catch—none of them are cheap.

The Wind Dancer is an eight-bladed top of the line wind turbine.  It was actually created by a father and daughter to provide power to their home.  In addition to pulling in a great amount of wind power, this copper-colored turbine looks pretty, too.  The Wind Dancer is strong enough to handle large gusts of wind while still working with just a light breeze.  It’s also very silent.  This is because of the way its fan blades are shaped.  Unlike some backyard turbines, the Wind Dancer does not need a tall tower.  The Wind Dancer is sold by Wind Simplicity, and their systems range from $27,000 to $69,000.

If you want something a bit cheaper, the Wind Terra is also available.  It can be mounted right on your roof, so you don’t have the cost (or the eyesore) of a tower.  The Wind Terra works with almost no wind at all.  This is because its blades actually spin horizontally, maximizing the amount of energy it can product at lower wind speeds.  This backyard wind turbine option costs around $11,000.

The third option is the Skystream.  It also uses a very low amount of wind.  With this turbine, you actually mount the inverter right on the turbine itself, so the power is generated right there.  The turbine connects right into your power grid, so it provides your power right away instead of going through a battery (although a battery is available).  However, the Skystream doesn’t provide a large amount of power, so you’ll need several to really make a difference in your bill.  This system costs around $13,000.

Combining Wind and Water Power

Wind and water are two of the best renewable resources on the planet, but we have yet to truly harvest these resources.  However, two new pieces of technology may change all of that.  These two items are designed to work together to truly make use of both wind and water power.

The first concept was created by Statoil Hydro, a company in Norway.  They realized that there’s not enough land in some places to create wind turbine farms, plus some people just don’t like the way all of those wind turbines look.  However, Statiol Hydro’s wind turbines aren’t built on land—instead, they’re floating out in the sea.  Not only do they float, but they can actually be moved, too, allowing the turbine farm to be shifted whenever needed.  However, the turbines are made to generally stay in one location by being anchored to the sea floor.  Cables attached to the turbines also need to be able to send power either to shore or to a floating battery station.

The issue, of course, is the cost.  It’s expensive to build these floating turbines, and it’s expensive to get them set up.  It may not be worth the energy savings…unless we were able to harvest more power.

That’s where the Green Ocean Energy Ltd’s Wave Treader comes into play.  These little devices can be added to offshore wind turbines to generate hydro power while the turbine harvests wind power.  While the Wave Treaders haven’t been tested with floating turbines, who’s to say the two concepts can’t be merged into one?  Both are still undergoing testing, of course, and won’t be put into actual use for a few more years.  Perhaps by then Statoil Hydro and Green Ocean Energy will have come up with a combination device.

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