San Francisco Bay Bloggers » wind power http://www.sfbaybloggers.com Sat, 22 May 2010 00:57:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Lighting Up the City With Wind Power http://www.sfbaybloggers.com/san-francisco/lighting-up-the-city-with-wind-power http://www.sfbaybloggers.com/san-francisco/lighting-up-the-city-with-wind-power#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:42:19 +0000 admin http://www.sfbaybloggers.com/?p=37 On Tuesday Mayor Newsom announced plans for installing turbines on rooftops around the city, stating, “We want to challenge the perception that wind is a rural or suburban phenomenon and not an urban resource.” He said that a goal of commercializing small-scale wind power and bringing down the cost of renewable electricity, and that small-scale wind power could contribute significantly to the city’s goal of generating 50 megawatts of electricity from renewables by 2030. As a chiropractor who both lives in the city and has a chiropractic clinic here, I am happy about this newest “green” approach that is another step for cleaning up the environment and the city’s budget as well. The plans foresee turbines on public and private buildings, as well as at Ocean Beach and Treasure Island. Newsom said demonstration turbines could be placed on the W Hotel, outside City Hall and on a new Public Utilities Commission building. Turbine Manufacturer, Blue Green Pacific, already has a 150-pound rooftop turbine that generates a maximum of half a kilowatt at three sites here, including the San Francisco Zoo.

According to the report, consumers will need more third-party evaluations to compare models, and it recommends that manufacturers create information labels similar to the federal Energy Star program for appliances and adhere to the pending industry standards to ease certification.

I’m looking forward to serving my patients, and dinner, using wind energy as the only source of my electricity!

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