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'Micro' wind turbines are coming to town

'Micro' wind turbines are coming to townIt's about time.There is no need to go thru withdrawl from the oil addiction. Now all these companies need to do is ramp up production, while we got oil for the machinery to make them. Put a lot of people back to work.It sounds...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, turbine, WindMill, wind

Discussion threads 2006-02-10

Windmill 1.08 (Windows)

WindMill is a program designed to help English-speaking people learning Dutch to increase their vocabulary. This program randomly selects 10, 20 or 30 depending on what you select questions and then gives you a percentage Once you have completed the questions. Note: Clicking the Download Now link will take you...

Tags: Program, Redlenz, WindMill, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2001-02-07

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Windmills stir up opposition

Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind energy

Discussion threads 2009-09-13

Windmills stir up opposition

In many parts of the U.S. you can't simply put up a windmill to generate electricity for your own use. Grandpa may have used one to pump water out on the farm, but now it's NIMBY time. After all, one of them might topple over and kill the...

Tags: Turbine, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-13

America's greenest town?

America's greenest town?Lies about climate and 'global warming'.....ENOUGH already, this is the biggest SCAM of thecentury, it is NOT real it is about controland taxing people.All praise the Climate gods Al Gore & Oboma theKenya Usurper....That's very great!Will it have solar panels for the buildings and houses? What are the...

Tags: welfare

Discussion threads 2009-04-19

EA Mini Golf 1.4.56 (Mobile)

is a Hole-In-One! Putt your way through an exotic paradise filled with hazardous obstacles and secret shortcuts. Enjoy beautiful graphics, fun music, and realistic physics. Simple controls make it easy to select views, aim, select strength and make that perfect shot. Watch the ball wind down spiraling slopes, escape the...

Tags: Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-01-26

What's red, white and blue, and green all over?

What's red, white and blue, and green all over?I've said it before, and I'll say it again.Obama will spend billions on alternative energy and in four years we will be more dependent on foreign oil than we are today.Bookmark it.Better than spending a trillion dollars in Iraq for nothingAlternative energy...

Tags: foreign oil, oil, nuclear energy, alternative energy

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?

Raise taxes? On gasoline? How about mothers' milk?Again?He's not even president yet. How about laying some of the blame on the current president? You know, the one who inherited a $500 billion surplus upon entering office and parlayed it into a $10 trillion debt upon leaving?...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Obama, tax

Discussion threads 2009-01-02

Windmill Theme 3.2 (Mobile)

Maybe you don''t know who Don Quixote was, but as the first fact people recall about a country, windmill in peace is a must-have theme on your handset.Features: 1. Have a view of Fairy Tales on your handset 2. MMMOOO''s art designing 3. Tested on FP1/FP2 and E90 handsets. Nice...

Tags: Phone, Theme, Mobile, Battery, MMMOOO', Telecom & Utilities, Engineering

Software downloads 2008-10-26

EA Mini Golf 1.4.54 (Mobile)

is a Hole-In-One! Putt your way through an exotic paradise filled with hazardous obstacles and secret shortcuts. Enjoy beautiful graphics, fun music, and realistic physics. Simple controls make it easy to select views, aim, select strength and make that perfect shot. Watch the ball wind down spiraling slopes, escape the...

Tags: Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-27

EA Mini Golf 1.4.29 (Mobile)

is a Hole-In-One! Putt your way through an exotic paradise filled with hazardous obstacles and secret shortcuts. Enjoy beautiful graphics, fun music, and realistic physics. Simple controls make it easy to select views, aim, select strength and make that perfect shot. Watch the ball wind down spiraling slopes, escape the...

Tags: Mobile, Electronic Arts Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-09-27

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updates

Something in the air: Several random wind energy updateswindso what happens when the wind stops blowing?i see you still have not got an honest job!Keep an eye on KansasKeep an eye on KS - a governor up for election is pushing hard on creating more wind farms as part of...

Tags: wind farm, wind energy

Discussion threads 2008-09-04

Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate them

Fossil fuel prices and the men who hate themAirline fares are too lowEver since deregulation, airlines have allowed themselves to be sucked into a ridiculous, never ending price war.As a result, they've been forced to fly at max capacity just to break even on any given flight. That need...

Tags: FUEL PRICES, airline fare, oil, fare, fossil fuel

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarity

Microsoft may need an IBM moment of clarityBingo! ntnt"insanely profitable"Yes, IBM retained those parts of its business in which it was possible to obtain a huge markup and not worry as much about performance compared to alternatives.Microsoft already has part of that approach, as witness the markup on software. ...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.

Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...

Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)

(Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company

Discussion threads 2008-06-23

Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?

Canada caught on its own tar baby. Tar sand investments now a dead duck?Editing.There are many spelling errors and a missing link at the bottom of this article.Oil is messyThis is story is why China will become an even bigger superpower.Everything with them is a business transaction. They don't...

Tags: own tar baby, tar baby, investment, duck, dead duck, oil

Discussion threads 2008-05-01

Texas: more than just oil and politicians

Texas. Oil. Politicians. From LBJ to George W, Texas has brought us oil, war and big military budgets. Well, now there are some subversives sneaking yet another energy business onto the scene down Texas way. Wind! Course, much of the ooomph is coming from those dread...

Tags: Texas, Vestas, Banking, Telecom & Utilities, Investment, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-04-04

SilkWood Spring 1.8 (Mac)

SilkWood Spring is a casual paced game based on a digital organism called The Elders that live on a farm with real-world weather. The player controls the action of the Elder through a 24-hour real-time scheduler. With this scheduler the player can assign timeslots for the Elder to work, eat,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Farm, Reflective Layer, SilkWood Spring, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-03-28

Islands of hope in an ocean of energy

Courtesy Wavebob. Britain and Ireland have a long and bloody mutual history. They've ended open hostility and the neighboring nations now share and compete with a possible future energy source: the restless waves of the North Atlantic. Both Ireland and the United Kingdom are looking...

Tags: Ireland, Strategy, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Management, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-03-24