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When I was about 10 years old, a relative I had not seen for several years said, "Boy, you are getting tall!" I said, "I seem to be about the same distance from the ground as I have always been."
People laughed because they thought I was making a joke, but my distance from the ground had increased so gradually that I had not noticed.
Over our life spans, we are subject to undergoing imperceptible changes, and politicians are not immune to this phenomenon.
Philosophers have said forever that governmental corruption is inevitable. Plato believed that when "rulers" began to acquire wealth, they would become hostile masters of other citizens rather than their leaders and allies.
"Even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny," Thomas Jefferson wrote.
Ronald Reagan updates it: "Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
The environments in which people interact and the people with whom they interact will influence what they become, often without their knowing that transformations are taking place.
Changes will occur in leaders' political, social and ethical values as they spend increasing amounts of time in environments quite unlike the environments of the people they govern and, for many, unlike their birth communities. Our values and our psychological conditions drive our perceptions of reality, as well as our assumptions, questions, interpretations, judgments and, therefore, our decision-making. As studies have made clear, unconscious biases influence conscious behavior.
A truism: Rich people are different from the rest of us. National legislators are much richer than the great majority of American citizens. The average net worth of a U.S. senator is about $13 million, and the average worth of a House member is about $6 million. Seven of 10 of the richest senators are Democrats. Barack Obama is worth about $8 million.
The average net worth of members of Congress is many times greater than that of other Americans, and it has been increasing while the American average has been decreasing. Less than 2 percent of members of Congress come from the working class, according to multiple sources.
When there is a values disconnect between the power-elite and "ordinary" citizens, lawmakers' decisions will not attain the goals even they profess, let alone goals for those least like themselves. America is quite awful in comparison with modern nations in upward mobility within generations, the percentage of children in poverty, and educational quality for the poor.
The system that warps the values of many who enter politics to do good is very sophisticated, says Democracy 21 founder Fred Werthheimer. It is a form of legalized bribery, he says, akin to subtle indoctrination, in that the financial power-elite no longer have to say what they want because everybody already knows. Our politics has two major groups of incumbents, James Bennet, editor of The Atlantic, says: officeholders and the wealthy who want to protect and enlarge the advantages they get from the government.
It is normal for people to care what others think about them, especially their affinity groups and people they value. And while extreme concern for external approval may become psychologically harmful for people themselves, those who have no concern about how they are perceived by others may become dangerous to society because they are unable to feel remorse, guilt, empathy or compassion.
According to a recent Gallup poll, only 10 percent of Americans approve of Congress. In 2011, a Huff Post article, citing New York Times and Gallup polls, stated that the approval rating for Congress was lower than that for porn, polygamy, the BP oil spill, and the idea that the U.S. is "going communist."
Our leaders don't seem overly concerned by the way 90 percent of their fellow Americans perceive them. They do care what fellow lawmakers, lobbyists, wealthy contributors, elite neighbors and the political party leadership think. Even if they believe these people are behaving in ways inimical to America's best interests, they will not speak it aloud or depart from their company.
Several conservative pundits in recent months have asserted that Americans do not like capitalism. It is corrupt capitalists and their political cronies Americans do not like. Unfortunately, voters usually say that the other guys' politicians are corrupt, not their own elected officials.
Power corrupts corruptible people. If leaders would accept their vast difference from the great majority of American citizens, and understand that their values may change more once they get into power, they could strive to remain aware and in touch. Then they would be far more helpful in securing the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as specified in the Declaration of Independence as the reason for which our governments were formed and instituted. The dangerous leaders are those who think they will not change and those whose stands on issues, like chameleons, are colored merely by the company they may be with at particular points in time.
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Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (hereafter "Toppan Printing"; head office: Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo; President & Representative Director: Shingo Kaneko) will strengthen its packaging material business with a focus on flexible packaging materials. Toppan Printing will position its new Gunma plant (hereafter "new plant"; location: Meiwa-machi, Ora-gun, Gunma Prefecture), which is currently being constructed, as a "mother factory" not just for domestic business, but also for the production of flexible packaging for overseas markets where growth is anticipated. The company will install state-of-the-art equipment in the new plant and bolster its production capacity. The new plant will supply packaging materials for food and toiletries, as well as for other fields where future growth is predicted such as healthcare products, which require a high level of functionality.
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There is a high level of interest in consideration for the environment in advanced nations in Europe and North America. In the field of packaging materials, there are growing needs for CO2 reduction through reduction of material volume and for aluminum-free solutions, and this means increased demand for highly functional packaging.
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The question of how to reform education always comes around to teachers: how to train them, how to assess them, how to pay them, how to keep them—and the list goes on.
The United States isn't alone in grappling with these issues. Education ministers throughout the world are faced with these same questions. Because of this, education leaders came together to share ideas and best practices at the International Summit on the Teaching Profession.
Delegations comprised of education ministers, leaders of national teachers' organizations, and other teacher leaders from countries and regions with high-performing and rapidly improving education systems gathered in New York City in March 2012.
This year's theme, Preparing Teachers and Developing School Leaders, examined how to improve teacher preparation and school leader development to better address the needs of 21st century learning environments and changing expectations.
Participating countries and regions included Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, the People's Republic of China, Republic of Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Singapore, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
A webcast of the opening and closing events can be viewed online. Also available are PDF files of the 2011 and 2012 International Summit Reports, an article about the first Summit's ideals and motivation as seen by the world's leaders in education, and a two-part summary (Part 1; Part 2) of the Summit's conclusions as written by Vivien Stewart, Asia Society's Senior Advisor for Education and author of A World-Class Education: Learning from International Models of Excellence and Innovation.
Asia Society was a partner on this event along with the U.S. Department of Education, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education International (EI) the global federation of teacher unions, American Federation of Teachers (AFT), Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), National Education Association (NEA), and public broadcaster WNET.
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Hannah and her best friend Rinnie have a polite conversation about sharing the water.
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View Full ProfileLOL! These two are much like our Birch and Diesel. They all want a bit of the action!
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Global warming grabs headlines, but CO2 emissions are also impacting our oceans... and the effects could be irreversible
by Kate Bradshaw
write the author
June 18, 2009
Imagine the ocean stripped bare: no coral, no crabs, no mussels, no clams—and ultimately no fish. What would that be like? It's hard to say, says Rusty Brainard, chief of the Coral Reef Ecosystems Division at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Islands Fisheries Center, though it could be an environment in which jellyfish and other, similar species predominate. But good luck catching a fish. You'd be hard-pressed to find bait, anyhow.
It's a nightmarish scenario, but, Brainard says, it could become reality in the next 35 to 100 years. That's the range of time in which experts estimate that atmospheric CO2 will double if we don't drastically change our ways. And most scientists believe high CO2 levels are altering the fundamental chemistry of our oceans.
It's kind of like that science fair project involving a baby tooth left overnight in a petri dish full of Coca-Cola, except that the effects are potentially catastrophic, especially in places like Hawaii, where, in addition to their environmental and cultural importance, coral reefs generate an estimated $360 million dollars a year. One environmental lawyer called ocean acidification "global warming's evil twin," but the phenomenon is still largely unknown outside scientific circles.
One man wants to change that. After reading Elizabeth Kolbert's November 2006
New Yorker
piece titled "The Darkening Sea," retired teacher Sven Huseby set out to find the truth behind ocean acidification. His quest took him all over the planet and led to conversations with top researchers in the field. What he discovered was not pretty. Huseby's travels are documented in
A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish
, a film screening Tuesday, June 23 as part of Maui Ocean Center's Sea Talk series.
"It's kind of shocking how little we know about this topic," says Brainard. The term itself was coined a mere six years ago, according to Kolbert, by climate scientists Ken Caldiera and Michael Wickett.
Yet there is an overwhelming consensus that the pH levels of our oceans are dropping, becoming more acidic at an alarming rate, and that carbon dioxide emissions—which result from the burning of fossil fuel—are the culprit.
"From [the existing body of research] what we see is very scary," says Brainard.
Billions of tons of CO2 are pumped into the atmosphere each year. The oceans absorb an estimated 25 to 33 percent of that. From a global warming standpoint, Brainard says, that's a good thing, as it means less CO2 gets trapped in the atmosphere, which means a slower rate of global warming.
However, for our oceans and the unfathomably diverse and vast life forms that call them home, the estimated 118 billion metric tons (the equivalent of 118 billion VW Beetles) of carbon dioxide that the oceans have absorbed since the start of the Industrial Revolution have taken their toll—and scientists say there's much, much more to come.
In a 2007 report, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a consortium of the world's top climate change researchers, estimated that oceanic pH levels have dropped by 0.1 pH units. It doesn't seem like much, but Kolbert points out in "The Darkening Sea" that the pH scale is logarithmic, much like the Richter scale. So it's not an imperceptible change.
Lizzy McLeod, a Climate Adaptation Scientist with The Nature Conservancy's Asia-Pacific Division says that ocean acidification is bad news for marine life, namely corals and other life forms that rely on a biological process called calcification.
"This is huge," she says, citing a 2008 paper published in
titled "Coral Reefs Under Rapid Reefs and Ocean Acidification."
The study found a 13 percent reduction in growth rate for coral in the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef. Accurate measurements are possible because corals grow like trees—with rings to tell their story.
So how, exactly, does water with a lower pH spell disaster for calcifying marine life? As the oceans absorb carbon dioxide, CO2 molecules combine with seawater molecules to form carbonic acid molecules. Multiple studies show that this reduces the availability of aragonite, a substance that's vital in the calcification process.
Coral, clams, echinoderms, starfish and tiny zooplankton called pteropods are among tens of thousands of calcifiers.
Scientists from NOAA, the United States Geological Survey, the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology and many other organizations have studied the impacts of acidification on a handful of calcifiers, including crustose coralline algae, a vital component to coral reefs. USGS scientist Ilsa Kuffner, UH Oceanographer Andreas Andersson and others released results of a study in 2007 that took place at Coconut Island, Kaneohe Bay. In open air mesocosms (tanks) they decreased the pH of some of the tank's water using diluted hydrochloric acid to induce the projected ocean pH.
A pteropod
"The recruitment rate and growth of crustose coralline algae were severely inhibited in the elevated carbonate mesocosms," the study read.
"Most of the organisms we look at suffer very badly," Brainard adds.
Pteropods are among the most studied organisms in terms of acidification's impacts. As a series of photographs over time dramatically demonstrates in
A Sea Change
, their shells begin to dissolve within 48 hours of the water reaching a certain level of acidity. It's a matter of days before they dissolve almost completely. This is bad for the marine food web and fisheries alike, as pteropods are an important part of the diets of fish like salmon.
McLeod says that the further you get from the Equator, the more difficult it is for calcifiers to make their shells and skeletons, because the oceans are less saturated with aragonite. Reefs strewn along coral's latitudinal limits—30 degrees north and south of the equator—are most vulnerable to acidification because of the scarcity of aragonite.
This paints a dire picture, but many scientists say it's not too late to reduce the impacts of acidification. "It's not all gloom and doom," McLeod says.
Last year, for example, The Nature Conservancy convened a workshop in Hawaii to discuss impact reduction strategies. The result was "The Honolulu Declaration on Acidification and Reef Management," a series of policy and management recommendations. It stressed not only the importance of a reduction in carbon emissions, but also increased protection of our reefs—things as simple as reducing reef damage from divers' fin kicks.
The federal government recently passed the FOARAM (Federal Ocean Acidification Research and Monitoring) Act, which grants NOAA and the National Science Foundation $96 million over the next 10 years for ocean acidification research.
The abundance of the sea makes it easy to forget how fragile the balance is. We may not know what we've got until it's gone—but we can't afford to wait that long.
A Sea Change: Imagine a World Without Fish
will screen Tuesday, June 23 at 5:30pm at the Maui Ocean Center in Maalaea. For more info and to reserve a space, call 270-7000 or visit
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Thanks Maui Time...
June 20, 2009 | 03:47 AM
for writing about this. I hadnt heard about this. scary and farther proof as to what we're doing to our Planet.....the only one we have!
Hopeful but worried
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Was Catholicism worse than Communism?
Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 at 10:09 AM
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But why bother? Many Catholics these days are as reliably anti-Catholic as the Vatican's oldest enemies.
This is understandable, given the revelations of the last decade or so.
Living as a devout Catholic requires a tremendous amount of dedication and sacrifice. That was especially true in a largely Protestant nation such as America, where Irish Catholics were a distinct minority for the century or so following the Famine.
But these days, it seems as if Catholics are the ones who want to throw stones at the stained glass windows.
This was made crystal clear by two recent developments in the ongoing tension between the Irish and Rome.
First came the announcement that members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) have filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, outlining how Vatican officials tolerated and enabled "the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes," as Irish American SNAP leader David Clohessy has written.
Clohessy added, "After many years of effort in the United States and around the world, the (abuse) problem became too big to ignore. … We finally began to feel heard. And now we want these crimes investigated and prosecuted."
Clohessy knows this move may not be popular.
"Some may be shocked that we are accusing the world leader of a church, a man considered by many people of faith to be a holy leader. But one cannot be the head of an institution and escape accountability for that institution's continuing criminal cover-ups," he writes.
Clohessy then quoted Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny, who said, "The rape and torture of children were downplayed, or 'managed,' to uphold instead the primacy of the institution — its power, its standing and its reputation."
Most observers feel that SNAP's ploy is not likely to be successful -- unless, of course, by successful they mean drawing more attention to an urgent problem.
Still, whatever the technical outcome, trying to haul the Vatican before a human rights tribunal means that at least some people want to equate priestly crimes with systematic atrocities committed under brutal dictatorships in places such as Haiti and China and Chile. Or, for that matter, old Communist regimes.
Which is why I was taken aback when I heard a recent interview with acclaimed Irish writer John Banville, a widely admired writer who has won the Booker Prize (for his novel The Sea) and is now gaining a larger following for his mystery novels, written under the pen name Benjamin Black.
Banville told the editor of The New York Times Book Review that Ireland in the fifties "was a time of great secrecy. We were in the clutch of the Catholic Church. The church for us was what the Communist party was for Eastern Europe.
"We only discovered this when we got older, how unfree we were. And everything was hidden, as we have discovered, to our horror, in the past five or 10 years."
Are SNAP and Banville right? Do the church's transgressions rise to the level of the 20th century's worst dictatorial regimes?
We probably do need to make distinctions between Ireland and America, though Catholicism did pervade big-city parishes in the U.S. nearly as thoroughly as it did elsewhere.
Indeed, Banville's comparison is particularly jolting for Irish Americans. They often flaunted their anti-Communism to prove to native WASPs just how patriotic they could be.
And now it is being said they themselves were no better off than the victims of Communism?
I'd say SNAP may be on to something, but I will respectfully disagree with Banville.
Moreso in Ireland, but also in America, parish institutions pervaded every aspect of life. To say they were as negatively pervasive as Communism's rigged elections and secret police is simply too strong a case to make.
The saddest thing, of course, is that the case can actually be made at all.
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stephen1553 | Dec 20, 2011, 06:51 PM EST
Communism had a god - power.
The catholic church hierarchy's God is also power.
Everything else is window dressing, and militaristic type control of minds.
Sometimes I think that religion is actuall an induced form of Obsessive - Compulsive disorder, a recognized mental illness.
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maryo137 | Oct 26, 2011, 09:54 PM EDT
Communists do not believe in GOD and is not a religion. I am as mad as anyone about the scandals but would never be Anti_Catholic. The Eucharist is the center of the Catholic faith and thats all that matters to the faithful. The rest should be handled by police and courts of law.
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Intercessor | Oct 18, 2011, 01:20 PM EDT
I contend that fear of the Church is in our DNA and collective memories. If one goes back to the Spanish Inquisitions, one can easily see how much fear was instilled by the Catholic Church in the hearts of not only the Jews, but ALL Catholics. Turning people over to the government (i.e. the Crown of Ferdinand and Isabella), for public burnings at the stake, the "Church's hands would be clean," and She would not be responsible for the outcome of Her Inquisitorial Trials, which more often than not included unspeakable tortures of both men and women over 12 years of age. For insight into this age go to "History's Mysteries" and type in "Inquisitions." Jesus taught us, "My kingdom is WITHIN!" I don't believe that Jesus ever intended for an institution like the Catholic Church to dominate us with threats of being excommunicated from the Body of Christ! Unfortunately, over the years the Roman Catholic Church has been successful in intimidating Her members into not leaving and into not questioning the actions and SINS of Her "Holy Priests." Finally, in our generations, people are coming out of an "Inquisitions Mentality of Fear," which in my opinion has many similarities to Communist Regimes.
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drwho13 | Oct 17, 2011, 06:49 PM EDT
What do you expect? The SOB's BETRAYED US!
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michaelidaho | Oct 17, 2011, 09:35 AM EDT
Your reasons for immigrating from Ireland in the early 1970s were certainly quite unique. Over the years I have spoken with perhaps hundreds of Irish immigrants who left Ireland in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, including my parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and countless others. Without a single exception, the reason they stated for immigrating to the U.S. or England was for a better standard of living. Some of course have understandably criticized the Catholic Church in recent years, however none of them ever relayed to me that they left Ireland because the RCC was "too harsh and hypocritical to bear."
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harrybyrnes | Oct 15, 2011, 02:31 PM EDT
@michaelidaho It was one of the great tragedies, that millions of its people left Ireland,to flee the repression of the Catholic Church,as it was too harsh and hypocritical to bear.I was one of those. I left in the early 70ts, Banville's comparison maybe extreme, but is very close to the bone.
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Blackthorn62 | Oct 15, 2011, 12:07 AM EDT
Coverups should not have happened. These were crimes committed by people children trusted and who stood in loco parentis over them. Secrecy is what allowed it to happen. When Pope John xxiii said to open the windows it is too bad they were not really opened.
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abhainn | Oct 14, 2011, 08:43 PM EDT
The vice grip (and, indeed, vice grip) of the church here in Ireland was much tighter in the smaller, claustrophobic community we have here. The church influence in the United States was not nearly as intrusive and totalitarian as in Ireland because America is so much larger and more socially diverse, so John Banville's comparison is more true than you might at first imagine. It was an ugly time in Irish social history.
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ceceann | Oct 14, 2011, 12:01 PM EDT
Banville is comparing apples & oranges but the comments ignore that point in the story and take the opportunity to bash the church once again. While any institution that allows or covers up crimes against their most vulnerable members deserves scorn, one has to wonder why NO ONE is vilifying ministers and rabbis whose number exceed that of offending catholic priests (at least in the USA). I am outraged that ALL institutions are not held accountable, not just the Catholic Church. If we did that in the case of crimes committed by only one race we would be called RACIST. What is the label when only one religion is prosecuted in the court of public opinion?
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GeorgeDillon | Oct 14, 2011, 10:32 AM EDT
eiriamach--A nasty racist like you talking about bigotry? Give me a break! What time is your Klan meeting?
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eiriamach | Oct 14, 2011, 08:50 AM EDT
Add to the truths that IC should be telling about Catholicism the fact that its political agenda in the US breeds bigots like filth breeds vermin: "many homos and abortionists out there that don't give a rat's ass about the victims, but would love to see the Church destroyed because it does not endorse their dirty, filthy, immoral, deadly (abortion) agenda." This is a loathsome spewing of bigotry, but a predictable result of the war against women and homosexuals waged by Timothy Dolan and other Catholics in the USA. Pew Catholics must begin taking responsibility for the crimes of their priests and bishops, whom they support financially. Their attempts to foist off responsibility to people outside their Church just won't wash, and it is certainly offensive to those they blame!
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eiriamach | Oct 14, 2011, 08:37 AM EDT
Still living in La-La-Land, mikehoulihan? Only to people who wish to remain completely detached from reality can telling the truth about Catholicism seem to be anti-Catholic. There will be no change in the practices of clericalism (these include pedophilia and cover-ups) until Catholics face the truth and demand change. Why assault the messenger? Try to deal with the message.
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mikehoulihan | Oct 14, 2011, 12:25 AM EDT
Irish Central keeps beating the drum of anti-Catholicism. If you don't like the Catholic religion, leave it. How many atheist Jews go around bashing Judaism? Irish Central is virulently anti-Catholic.
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Gearoid4 | Oct 13, 2011, 08:57 PM EDT
I think that it is a ridiculous assertion to make that Ireland was in the grip of an ideology that resembled communism in it's application and social effects. I do not have any qualms about criticizing the handling by Church hierarchies of the scandalous sex-abuse cases and the excessive power that the Church wielded in Irish society over the decades. But one must make a quantum leap of unimaginable proportions from that to the mass-killings, forced starvation, beatings, state surveillance and death camps endured by millions of people in the former Eastern bloc and other regions where Communism was and is still pervasive.
The organization SNAP has turned from being an honest advocate for victims of abuse by priests and religious to an organization driven by an ideological enemy of all things Catholic. They are targeting the present pontiff in order to generate the maximum publicity for themselves. Pope Benedict XV1 had been in the vanguard for change to tackle the horrific scourge of abuse within the Catholic Church.
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jamieLM | Oct 13, 2011, 06:25 PM EDT
@joycean, I agree with you. I also know some Catholic churches in the U.S. that have priests who are quite liberal.
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Zoning laws often forbid tall wind turbines. The Windspire captures breezes at 30 feet and below with a design in which blades run up a pole's length and spin around it. Contoured airfoils make the Windspire the first vertical-axis turbine that can start in slow winds without help from a motor or inefficient scoops or wings. $5,000; mariahpower.com
The annual energy yield is marketed as 2000kWh, with 1.2kW max draw... So as long as the sum of the energy of everything you have running is less than 1.2kW at any given time (just look at the device's documentation or labelling to find out how many watts it uses, or if it's expressed in amps, multiply by 120 or whatever voltage the device runs on) you can get 2000kWh out of one of these in a year. Typical household consumption for a conservative user is around 3000 to 4000kWh per year (I use less, typically 1000kWh per year - I'm SUPER CEREAL!!). So... mathologically speaking (no, that's not a real word... but it should be... MATHOLOGISTS UNITE!!!) one or two of these could power a whole house given adequate winds year-round (conditions which typically only exist on mountaintops).
I'd say, one or two of these, mixed with a couple average size solar panels, just might do it for anyone anywhere there is a fair amount of sun and wind.
ALSO!!! You would be restricted by your municipality zoning department from mounting this on top of your house. The whole point of the 30ft idea is to reduce the device's vertical footprint... we wouldn't want endangered birds or commercial airliners flying into it would we?
Arid areas in the world long have employed wind-powered water pumps to provide drinking water for cattle on remote ranges. As soon as the electric grid came near to these remote areas, however, the windmills were replaced by electric pumps for the reason that cattle can die of thirst if the wind doesn't blow for a week. Many of the more remote waterwells have acquired diesel pumps on timers.
Try this. If you have a flagpole, how often do you see the flag even half unfurled? Maybe twice in seven years I have seen my flag flying straight out. Don't count on that 1.2 kw to keep the food in your freezer from thawing.
My average power bill is around $120 (I'm super cheap - 78 in summer, 55 in winter). At an average of 1/3 max draw (which seems reasonable), this thing would save me about $20 a month. That is almost 21 years to a break even point. I don't know of many mechanical devices that will last that long without maintainance cost as well.
If energy costs triple, then I might consider tucking 3 or 4 of these on my back lot for the "feel good green" effect, but as is, no way.
It is also ugly as sin. Why would you not paint it green or brown instead of white?
Of course, if you are in a more exspensive energy market, your milage may vary.
I have seen low-speed vertical axis wind turbines on roof tops 30 years ago. Some still sit in the country side here in VT rusting away. I own a book dedicated to this type that was written in 1989 ("Der Savonius Rotor"). According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savonius_wind_turbine) this type of rotor was invented in 1922, although a similar version exists since 1745.
The model above is certainly NOT the first vertical axis turbine to start up at low wind speeds. It is prettier though. And I believe white is the color of choice to indicate "high-tech".
Wind speed and enabling the use of the energy of higher winds is far more relevant than the size of the turbine and its look. Double the size of the turbine (the cross-section of the vertical turbine or the diameter of the rotor) and you get twice the energy. If you reduce the "vertical footprint" you reduce the exposure to the wind and gain less wind power. On the other hand, double the wind speed and you get four times the energy. There is nothing wrong with a motor giving a little push IF you get to use the energy-rich higher wind speeds. It pays you back multiple times. A smaller wind turbine designed to run in high winds may give you more energy than a larger one designed to run a lower wind speeds. And it may be cheaper too. Of course you may not have high winds often enough. You have to calculate the gain for the whole year.
I would like to know what this turbine does when the wind picks up. Can it handle stronger winds? No wire bracing and a single bearing at the bottom. Pretty long lever I would say. Will it topple over or get damaged in a storm? Will it rip out of your roof? If it needs to be shut down in stronger winds it won't be using the wind that really has energy in it. Another disadvantage is the limited height. Good winds are high up. Winds close to the surface are slower and more turbulent.
BTW, how the heck is going off the grid "green"? All is does is get people to live in places far from others and far from work. It is less efficient and pollutes more unless you don't mingle with others, work where you live, and don't need to go shopping ever.
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The energy you get from wind is directly related to the size of your turbine (vertical footprint or diameter). Make it half as big, get half the harvest. HOWEVER it is exponentially related to wind speed. Use half as fast wind, get 1/4 the energy.
While low speed wind turbines are nice to look at (certainly this one) they are not efficient to get a lot of energy. Unless you have good, low speed wind very often. Conventional vertical turbines may need a "push" but that is irrelevant when you can harvest the energy of higher speed winds.
Vertical wind turbines are exposed to air close to the ground where it is turbulent and slower. Not efficient.
I also wonder what this vertical turbine does in higher wind. No bracing or bearing on top. Will it fall over, rip out the top of your house or get damaged?
White is the color of "high-tech", that is why it is white. I think.
Why the heck is going off the grid green? It usually is much less energy efficient to live far away from anyone else.
In conclusion, depending on your location and situation a horizontal axis wind turbine may get you more power for less money and less head aches.
BTW, this is not the first vertical wind turbine that starts up in low speed winds. The first Savonius turbine (which does just that) was invented in 1922, a similar type even in 1745. I saw them on roof tops in Germany 30 years ago. I own a book about this type of wind motor written in 1989. Savonius rotors can still be found rusting away in fields in Vermont. They were not efficient types of turbines though.
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What about laying the turbine Horizontally on top of your roof, running the length of your roof? you might even be able to place 2 or 3 of them on top of your roof, and I think it would stand out less, maybe even having them painted the same color as your roof tiles.
For years, while commuting along the freeways, I've thought it would be great if a municipality could harness the never-ending turbulence between the two directions of traffic using hundreds of vertical wind turbines. It looks like it could happen.
Anyone ever been passed by a large vehicle at a high speed? That's a lot of energy.
turbulent air is per definition difficult to harness energy from.
Moreover we need to think cost: include cost and installation of thousands of turbine, maintainance, traffic delays,
potential hazard posed to vehicles and people(stormy winds), I think the price per Watt will be pretty high and not comparable to other systems even if you got a decent output.
When it comes to create cheap and reliable energy, a centralized system that serves a widespread grid is the way to go.Always have and probably always will.
We can reduce our "dependency" with novelty appliances sometimes designed more to vex our neighbors and that is very smart and useful(don't get me wrong!) indeed but let's not fool ourselves;
How soon and how well the big "switch"(fossil to renewable, that is) is going to happen depends almost entirely on the will of governments around the globe.
personalinfo - you and I think alike. One of the best thing about putting wind turbines down high speed highways is that the right of way already exists. This means that no-to-very little land has to be "appropriated" (condemned) to add wind as an energy resource. If the wind turbines were to have solar 'skin' attached, the energy result would be even better. However, there may be safety issues - people have been known to drive off the road. Another issue is noise, as anyone who has stood on the side of the road with cars and trucks whizzing by them can attest. So while the right of way may exist, there will no doubt be many who protest the installation of wind turbines on them. I think this idea is also good from the perspective of a more 'distributed' energy system. The current method of a few huge energy 'factories' providing electricity to huge sections of the country leaves huge sections of the country vulnerable to natural disasters, as seen in Hurricane Katrina. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but it seems to me that distributing both solar and wind energy generation capability throughout a region, with power plants would reduce the magnitude and consequences of electrical plant failure.
The Windspire in my field is generating about 500-600 KWh per month. We live in Northwest Indiana and have class 2 winds or about 12-15 mph avg winds. It is mesmerising to watch and our energy bill has been reduced a little over 1/3. We have livestock in the same field and it doesn't seem to bother them at all. The noise it creates is a soft hum. During storms when the wind gusts are over 30mph the dynamic braking system stops the turbine from spinning and will turn back on when it senses the wind has died down to it's specs. We love it and want to put another up next to the existing one.
Wow i have to say that is a great idea and thinking that they can operate in low winds with such a small amount of surface aria to catch the wind is amazing. Such light weight designs should become commonplace. I hope that home made wind turbines can become so efficient. If any one here is interested in learning how to build solar panels from scratch please check out my site. http://www.greenlivings.biz/home-renewable-energy/home-solar-energy/diy-home-solar-panels/learn-how-to-build-solar-panels-from-scratch
One of the best thing about putting wind turbines down high speed highways is that the right of way already exists. This means that no-to-very little land has to be "appropriated" (condemned) to add wind as an energy resource. If the wind turbines were to have solar 'skin' attached, the energy result would be even better. However, there may be safety issues - people have been known to drive off the road. Another issue is noise, as anyone who has stood on the side of the road with cars and trucks whizzing by them can attest. So while the right of way may exist, there will no doubt be many who protest the installation of wind turbines on them. I think this idea is also good from the perspective of a more 'distributed' energy system.


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