Author: John
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Help Ladyada’s Workshop Become a Real LEGO Set
Why? Because every young woman in school should have this name, these tools, and this in mind. How else will we get it there? As the NYTimes article suggests, it is time to give women the access code. Welcome LEGO fans! We looked around and couldn’t find a LEGO set that was geared towards inspiring…
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Auction Off Your Sunny, Unused Roof Space
Is your roof just sitting there? We at Walker Engineering are looking at Gridbid to solve some of that. Launching nationwide June 15, is a website where homeowners can put their roofs up for auction for use by one of the U.S.’s 4,000 solar power installer companies. Interested companies will bid on a rooftop,…
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Floating Windmills in Japan
From Bloomberg a couple of months ago I found an article I had heard about, Japan building floating wind farms and wondering if this might be the next thing considered in the NW. Could it be that transmission lines for this sort of concept also include an improved infrastructure for tidal power generators? It does…
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Grain of Salt: Wind farms can cause climate change
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures. Wind farms can cause a rise in temperature, found a study in Nature. Photo: Alamy Read the entire article, related articles, and updates directly off the original site http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/9234715/Wind-farms-can-cause-climate-change-finds-new-study.html I included…