The four flat block at 56 Tomlins Grove, E3 is very nearly self sufficient energy wise. The building has a silent wind turbine on the roof, solar panels and a conservatory for each flat that acts as a miniature power station.
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I found this whilst looking for stuff for the Scale blog. 1/18th scale Lego models of planes from WW1 and WW2.
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WarWheels.Net is a comprehensive online resource for modelers and enthusiasts of armored cars and wheeled fighting vehicles from all eras. Not a lot there yet, but they are looking for contributors if you have anything for them.
via Hyperscale.com
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Another example of an experiment to use surplus wind power to make hydrogen for when the wind isn’t blowing. This one is at a University of Minnesota campus that already generates a lot of its own electricity and sells its excess to the grid.
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The four flat block at 56 Tomlins Grove, E3 is very nearly self sufficient energy wise. The building has a silent wind turbine on the roof, solar panels and a conservatory for each flat that acts as a miniature power station.
Technorati tag: Energy Efficiency, Green building
I took issue yesterday with the suggestion that Green is expensive, and today Justin Thomas at Treehugger says pretty much the same thing (only a little more eloquently). Got to keep pushing the message- “Saving the world makes you richer.”
A 900,000 year ice core sample should provide more data about the historical correlation of Carbon dioxide concentration to periods of global warming, further discrediting the naysayers.
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