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Wind Power in America - Events

Introduction to Wind Systems
Date: 7/7/2009Location: Custer, WI9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. This one-day course is a prequel to Midwest Renewable Energy Association wind systems worksho...
4th Annual Ocean Management Conference
Date: 7/10/2009Location: Waltham, MASource: Environmental Business Council of New England, Inc.7:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The 4th Annual Ocean Management ...
Wind Energy Camp 2009
Date: 7/13/2009 to 7/16/2009Location: Kalamazoo, MI9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Students between the ages of 12 and 16 are invited to attend an introduction ...
Advancing Wind Power in Illinois
Date: 7/15/2009 to 7/16/2009Location: Bloomington, IL9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. This conference covers many aspects of wind energy including small wind, c...
Elkton Wind Turbine Day
Date: 7/18/2009Location: Elkton, MICatch the Breeze. Sponsored by the Elkton Chamber of Commerce. A full day of fun activities including Wind Turbin...

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Welcome to the WLAB.com Wind Lab

Your WLAB.com Community Wind Lab Welcomes You

Our focus is Wind Power, also the focus of King Lear, in this famous Shakespearean soliloquy:

"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples ... Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!" - William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.2.1

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This forum is in beta. Our rules are simple (see below). Our mission is simple - Energy Independence - along the lines suggested by T. Boone Pickens at http://PickensPlan.com. That is, get right down to the important business of building out our wind, solar and vehicular natural gas infrastructure and technology, as bridges to TOTAL energy independence.

It makes great sense to attack Energy Policy issues with this singularly war-time sense of urgency and focus.

Like Boone and Shakespeare's King Lear, none of us should go gently into that Good Night! The mission is clear. For our children, grandchildren, our country (still the world's last best hope), Boone's legacy and our own, the time for changing our Energy Policy and practice is now. Boone's good fortune, multiple billions of dollars and his www.PickensPlan.com army should enable him to carry the ball a good distance down the field but the game will not be won without our excercising good leadership in all its forms.

W. Edwards Deming said Change is not necessary. Survival is optional. So, when Boone says "we can't drill our way out of this problem" I believe it is with the credibility of an oil man and a geologist, who has opted for the survival of that which he holds dear.

We need to put wind in his sails as he does ours. It's not all about money. It will take money, influence, communication, organization, ingenuity, invention, good leadership, teamwork and all of the blessings that flow from liberty. We can harness the energy of the Wind Belt and the Sun Belt with our farms, our land, our technology, our natural resources and our Yankee Ingenuity.

www.WLAB.com Wind Lab resources are available in this same spirit and we also like to invoke the spirit of Johnny Appleseed which is captured by the Joe Strummer song of the same name:

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As to site architecture, EasternGrid.com, WesternGrid.com & FarmerGrid.com now point to this site and may be pointed directly to boards here with those specific names after the site gets out of beta (projected for the Fall of 2008). GoodGrounds.com & LicensingWorks.com may point here eventually as well.

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The basic concept is to allow wind farmers, landowners and frontier-spirited people of the world to embed videos that describe portions of their land suited to alternate wind power technologies that may also be promoted here.

Thanks for visiting! Please register and participate.
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	Sweetwater Stories \| 26 Aug 08
21:02:10 by combinator Views: 443 \| Comments: 0 Sweetwater Stories YouTube information-attribution: Added: August 20, 2008 (Less info) Sweetwater, Texas One of the many benefits of the Pickens Plan will be economic revitalization for many parts of rural America. Wind energy means good jobs in construction and maintenance, and a new source of income for landowners. Here's the story of one small town that was saved by the arrival of a major wind project. Learn more at PickensPlan.com Category: Science & Technology Tags: Sweetwater Texas TX wind power energy turbine windmill economy Pickens Plan
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	NASA World Wind 1.4 trailer - Stunning Virtual Globe - Stay with this one to the \| 01 Aug 08
12:31:10 by combinator Views: 512 \| Comments: 0 NASA World Wind 1.4 trailer - Stunning Virtual Globe - Stay with this one to the credits! http://world-wind.co.uk/ & http://www.bullsworld.net Imagine zooming in to the heart of your Natural Splendor, Wind Belt, Solar Mine, Ocean Floor, Geothermal, WineTrail or other property using a combination of Nasa World Wind, Nasa World Wind's Blue Marble software, cut to you and your JonesCAM, walking (or, better still, mountain biking) the metes and bounds of your farm, showing off its (wind, solar, biomass, , hydro, fill-in-the-blank) attributes to their best advantage. We could organize a cadre of bmx or mountain bike mounted videographers and World Wind developers to do something like that. It might be fun to try. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind Nasa World Wind software manual and demos of the software by user Laurence Muller at University of Amsterdam: YouTube information-attribution: November 23, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. The multitouch table (120x90 cm) has been build at the "Universiteit van Amsterdam" (the Netherlands) and uses Diffused Illumination. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.net Laurence Muller Category: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch UVA Universiteit Amsterdam research grid computing YouTube information-attribution: November 10, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. Used MT technique: FTIR. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.net Category: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch See also, Bull's Rambles blog mostly about Wind World adaptations [url=http://bullsworld2007.wordpress.com/hom...
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	Nasa World Wind Community Resources \| 01 Aug 08
10:05:21 by combinator Views: 386 \| Comments: 0 World of Warcraft Map [Globe] in NASA World Wind: Youtube information-attribution: Experimenting with customization of NASA World Wind application. www.WorldWindCentral.com has resources for the World Wind Community - World Wind dl information is here: http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/NASA_World_Wind_Download Information on World Wind add-ons such as Virtual Earth, Natural Earth, Climate Mapper & many more are available here: http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Add-ons Read their FAQ before you post in their forum: http://forum.worldwindcentral.com/ Knowledge Base is here -> http://www.worldwindcentral.com/wiki/Main_Page NASA's site on the subject is here: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html Happy World building!
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	Scroll down: Wingsuit over Baffin Island - Power of wind & imagination \| 09 Jan 09
12:27:37 by combinator Views: 266 \| Comments: 0 Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly compared to WingSuit base-jumping vid of the same name ... Wingsuit Base Jumping in Baffin Island http://www.supertopo.com/packs/learning-to-fly http://sportsgal.com/ Melissa Cam To point out the obvious, if you turn turn up the sound on the Pink Floyd Learning to Fly vid (above) and start a wingsuit vid at the same time you will notice they are perfectly synchronized. Ever thus. Youtube information-attribution: http://www.supertopo.com/packs/learning-to-fly Wingsuit BASE jumping in Baffin Island. This jump is available on DVD along with more BASE jumps at http://www.supertopo.com/packs/learning-to-fly Jumpers: Melissa Andrezjewski and Chris McNamara (camera guy) Cat...
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	Energy & Environment - Of the People, with President-elect Obama at Change.Gov \| 22 Nov 08
17:14:19 by combinator Views: 237 \| Comments: 0 Dear Mr. President-elect: W. Edwards Deming, the man who rebuilt Japan's infrastructure after WWII, offers what I believe should be your governing philosophy where it concerns Energy Policy: "Change is not necessary. Survival is optional." Our Energy Infrastructure is in need of major overhaul. Build the bones Mr. President-elect and your legacy will be secured. Fordham University has a great Deming Scholars MBA program. Task them to guide an Energy Infrastructure Mission as honest brokers for Uncle Sam. Best wishes for a successful administration. Excelsior, Mr. President-elect. Upwards. You CAN recapture the good will and political capital squandered by Mr. Bush & Company. Excelsior, combinator Energy & Environment - Of the People, with President-elect Obama at Change.Gov [b...
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	Selsam's Sky Serpent Flying Superturbine: Popular Science Invention of 2008 \| 27 Oct 08
10:54:52 by combinator Views: 646 \| Comments: 0 Blog Post: Selsam.com & Popular Science Invention of 2008- Super Serpent Turbine www.Selsam.com Sky Serpent Flying Superturbine Prototype Demo - March 2008 Selsam Superturbine Sky Serpent - Popular Science - Ten Times the Turbine - Invention of the Year Awards 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGqURa1a8g Energy. Independence. Ingenuity. Novelty. Utility. Nonobviousness. Invention. Synchronicity. If these are the stuff of your dreams prepare to be thrilled to the core by Doug Selsam's core business, an invention pipeline for energy (wind and hydrogen) independence at www.Selsam.com where the stuff of his dreams are put on display as they are conceived, reduced to actual practice and built-out for insert...
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	Whisper quiet wind power: Spiralairfoil evokes F.L. Wrights Romeo & Juliet \| 18 Oct 08
13:31:21 by combinator Views: 529 \| Comments: 0 Whisper quiet wind power: Spiralairfoil evokes F.L. Wrights Romeo & Juliet Whisper quiet beauty beyond compare: Spiralairfoil Wind Turbine www.Spiralwindllc.com Beautiful windmills are still being designed and built. Here's some kinetic architecture that would look good on anyone's roof. Spiralairfoil Wind Turbine made by www.Spiralwindllc.com. http://www.youtube.com/user/spiralairfoil New Type of Wind Turbine coming out of N.H. USA, More power per given diameter then traditional 3 bladed types. Start up speed 1.6 mph, power for the common people.Patent Pending Category: Science & Technology Tags: WindTurbine Investment Opportunity AlternativePower Solarpower Windpower News ...
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