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Fun Free Internet Movie
Sep. 27th, 2008 09:28 amVincent Price - The Last Man on Earth (1964). Based on "I am Legend" story.
Sep. 27th, 2008
Fun Free Internet Movie
Sep. 27th, 2008 09:28 amVincent Price - The Last Man on Earth (1964). Based on "I am Legend" story.
The Wind Wayback Machine
Sep. 27th, 2008 10:20 amFound this twelve minute video snooping around the Archive.org web site. Includes Carl Wilcox's home movies of the Smith-Putnam machine and footage on the old WTG Energy Systems on Cuttyhunk Island, MA [postcard]. Lots of cool things there. Of course those of us old timers in wind would note that 1980 was when Reagan started gutting the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) who did the video. SERI has since been renamed a more generic NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory).
Wind: An Energy Alternative (1980) (Video)
Notes from a publication about the same time as the video. ERDA was the Energy Research and Development Adminstration which got folded into the Department of Energy in 1977. ERDA was spawned from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) which had some internal problems when developing nukes as it was both regulator and promoter back in those days. The AEC was split into the ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a way of trying to separate those functions. Frankly, it hasn't worked all that well.
Megawatts from the Wind - 1976 - T.W. Black
"More than 70 U.S. utilities are investigating the utilization of wind energy and 30 are compiling wind data. Some have offered to provide sites, control rooms, and personnel for the testing of the Plum Brook wind turbine-generators (WTGs) developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration. Under ERDA sponsorship, NASA designed the 100-kW WTG, currently the largest in the world, and started construction in September 1975.
Plans are now in progress for 200-kW units, 500-kW units, and later a 1.5-MW unit. Results of a study on comparative capital costs using data at Northwest Utilities are presented, but economic factors will vary from utility to utility. Some financial data from the Plum Brook WTG indicates its cost is five times higher than utilities can afford to pay.
Near New Bedford, Mass., (Cuttyhunk Island), the world`s largest working WTG will provide 40 to 50 percent of the small community's power in 1976. The Cuttyhunk Island WTG is an updated version of the Danish Gedser Mill, and is rated at 200-kW capacity for a wind velocity of 28 mph. It will deliver power at a lower cost per kWh than the diesel-electric system."
Wind: An Energy Alternative (1980) (Video)
Notes from a publication about the same time as the video. ERDA was the Energy Research and Development Adminstration which got folded into the Department of Energy in 1977. ERDA was spawned from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) which had some internal problems when developing nukes as it was both regulator and promoter back in those days. The AEC was split into the ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a way of trying to separate those functions. Frankly, it hasn't worked all that well.
Megawatts from the Wind - 1976 - T.W. Black
"More than 70 U.S. utilities are investigating the utilization of wind energy and 30 are compiling wind data. Some have offered to provide sites, control rooms, and personnel for the testing of the Plum Brook wind turbine-generators (WTGs) developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration. Under ERDA sponsorship, NASA designed the 100-kW WTG, currently the largest in the world, and started construction in September 1975.
Plans are now in progress for 200-kW units, 500-kW units, and later a 1.5-MW unit. Results of a study on comparative capital costs using data at Northwest Utilities are presented, but economic factors will vary from utility to utility. Some financial data from the Plum Brook WTG indicates its cost is five times higher than utilities can afford to pay.
Near New Bedford, Mass., (Cuttyhunk Island), the world`s largest working WTG will provide 40 to 50 percent of the small community's power in 1976. The Cuttyhunk Island WTG is an updated version of the Danish Gedser Mill, and is rated at 200-kW capacity for a wind velocity of 28 mph. It will deliver power at a lower cost per kWh than the diesel-electric system."
The Wind Wayback Machine
Sep. 27th, 2008 10:20 amFound this twelve minute video snooping around the Archive.org web site. Includes Carl Wilcox's home movies of the Smith-Putnam machine and footage on the old WTG Energy Systems on Cuttyhunk Island, MA [postcard]. Lots of cool things there. Of course those of us old timers in wind would note that 1980 was when Reagan started gutting the Solar Energy Research Institute (SERI) who did the video. SERI has since been renamed a more generic NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory).
Wind: An Energy Alternative (1980) (Video)
Notes from a publication about the same time as the video. ERDA was the Energy Research and Development Adminstration which got folded into the Department of Energy in 1977. ERDA was spawned from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) which had some internal problems when developing nukes as it was both regulator and promoter back in those days. The AEC was split into the ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a way of trying to separate those functions. Frankly, it hasn't worked all that well.
Megawatts from the Wind - 1976 - T.W. Black
"More than 70 U.S. utilities are investigating the utilization of wind energy and 30 are compiling wind data. Some have offered to provide sites, control rooms, and personnel for the testing of the Plum Brook wind turbine-generators (WTGs) developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration. Under ERDA sponsorship, NASA designed the 100-kW WTG, currently the largest in the world, and started construction in September 1975.
Plans are now in progress for 200-kW units, 500-kW units, and later a 1.5-MW unit. Results of a study on comparative capital costs using data at Northwest Utilities are presented, but economic factors will vary from utility to utility. Some financial data from the Plum Brook WTG indicates its cost is five times higher than utilities can afford to pay.
Near New Bedford, Mass., (Cuttyhunk Island), the world`s largest working WTG will provide 40 to 50 percent of the small community's power in 1976. The Cuttyhunk Island WTG is an updated version of the Danish Gedser Mill, and is rated at 200-kW capacity for a wind velocity of 28 mph. It will deliver power at a lower cost per kWh than the diesel-electric system."
Wind: An Energy Alternative (1980) (Video)
Notes from a publication about the same time as the video. ERDA was the Energy Research and Development Adminstration which got folded into the Department of Energy in 1977. ERDA was spawned from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) which had some internal problems when developing nukes as it was both regulator and promoter back in those days. The AEC was split into the ERDA and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) as a way of trying to separate those functions. Frankly, it hasn't worked all that well.
Megawatts from the Wind - 1976 - T.W. Black
"More than 70 U.S. utilities are investigating the utilization of wind energy and 30 are compiling wind data. Some have offered to provide sites, control rooms, and personnel for the testing of the Plum Brook wind turbine-generators (WTGs) developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration. Under ERDA sponsorship, NASA designed the 100-kW WTG, currently the largest in the world, and started construction in September 1975.
Plans are now in progress for 200-kW units, 500-kW units, and later a 1.5-MW unit. Results of a study on comparative capital costs using data at Northwest Utilities are presented, but economic factors will vary from utility to utility. Some financial data from the Plum Brook WTG indicates its cost is five times higher than utilities can afford to pay.
Near New Bedford, Mass., (Cuttyhunk Island), the world`s largest working WTG will provide 40 to 50 percent of the small community's power in 1976. The Cuttyhunk Island WTG is an updated version of the Danish Gedser Mill, and is rated at 200-kW capacity for a wind velocity of 28 mph. It will deliver power at a lower cost per kWh than the diesel-electric system."