Meet Mike Mercurio, a friend of mine in Long Beach Island, NJ. The image shows his PV Solar installation and small wind turbine. The turbine sits 34 feet above the ground. The 6-foot blades make the tip 40 feet above the ground. Mercurio’s wind turbine and solar panels produce power without pollution – without greenhouse […]
Texas, with environmentalists like T. Boone Pickens (official site) is building wind turbines. Click Here. In Texas, when they find that they have wind in their backyard, they want to use it to make money. In Massachusetts and New Jersey, when someone finds wind in his backyard his neighbors say ‘Hold on there, Cowboy. What […]
Where do we go from here? How can we transition from fuel based energy systems to sustainable 21st Century technologies? Where do we install various systems? How much they cost? How quickly do they pay for themselves? How might the technology evolve? And what are thelogistical challenges of nuclear power? How do we manage radioactive […]