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The Opportunity
The elimination of turbines, magnets and in the future even all metals, while generating
electricity from wind creating aerodynamic flutter opens up a wide portfolio of
opportunities for generating and consuming energy locally. Whereas the present cost of
electricity generated by the flutter already puts the kilowatt/hour energy at par with all
traditional sources, the opportunity goes beyond the obvious. A completely new energy
concept could emerge with special applications in the Buddhist world.
Maybe the first broad scale application of this energy generation device could well be in
Bhutan. Every child in this Himalayan nations grows up to be a wind prospector. Why?
Since Buddhists pray by putting flags in the wind, the key is to know where there is
wind. Each flag pole could be equipped with a cord, attached to a flutter, generating
electricity while praying. The elongated band - the wind belt - could even have prayers
painted on them. This would be the ultimate form of "holy energy", the more wind - the
more electricity - the more you pray!
One million flag poles represent at 12 Watts per hour per wind cell, or a combined
potential of 360 Mega Watts available to the unreached communities in the mountains if
every flag pole were converted into the electricity generation. It could even become a
fashion in the cities that are connected to the grid but where citizens would like to blend
energy with spirituality and sustainability.
Gunter Pauli is the author of the Report to the Club of Rome:
“Blue Economy: 100 Innovations - 10 years - 100 million jobs” published worldwide.
Follow us on Twitter @MyBlueEconomy
Facebook pauli@gunterpauli.com
For further background on the 100 cases: www.TheBlueEconomy.org

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Mike Nelson here.
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one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century is that decolonization and communism made it so buddhism survived.
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Mike Nelson here.
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we could have a vietnamese pope by now
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You should visit their site getfiscal, it's right up your alley.

http://www.theblueeconomy.org/blue/Home.html

http://www.zeri.org/ZERI/Home.html

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Blue Economy is ZERI’s philosophy in action.
Blue Economy is where the best for health and the environment is cheapest and the necessities for life are free thanks to a local system of production and consumption that works with what you have.
"Innovative business models" are capable of bringing competitive products and services to the market responding to basic needs while building social capital and enhance mindful living in harmony with nature's evolutionary path.
"Competitiveness” is harnessing and optimizing the innate virtues and values connecting untapped local potential - like a natural system, where the seeds lie fallow only to sprout with amazing vigor at the first rain unleashing joy and happiness as the conditions for mind full-living are met in balance and in harmony.
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Kurdt
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Capitalism is never late, it arrives precisely when it means to
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All of the flaws of renewable energy are cast as benefits. Renewables take huge amounts of labor? "They create jobs!" Renewables take tons of copper to build? "Copper plays a vital role in sustainable energy!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_in_renewable_energy

http://www.coppertalk.org/2012/05/29/renewable-energy-the-future-of-america-and-the-copper-industry-part-1-of-2/
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tardy on these heaters
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i dont think you get to play that card roseweird
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I enjoy taking walks and going out to breakfast with my parents.

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Eat ice cream.
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Online
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yo mustang are you coming to the next dc 'zzoner meetup with me and hubert
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I promise once I get a job/car.
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Online
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a simple no would have sufficed

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It really helps when you're on a fixed income and have to watch every penny.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Wilford_Brimley posted:

All of the flaws of renewable energy are cast as benefits. Renewables take huge amounts of labor? "They create jobs!" Renewables take tons of copper to build? "Copper plays a vital role in sustainable energy!"



when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. but also make cheap sources of electricity by inserting pennies and galvanized nails into some of those lemons

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Heres my latest graph, have fun

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is that the entirety of the oecd or did you just delete all the nodes too far away from the line

e: g23 isnt a thing
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Its just random countries.

Anyway Pan I don't see how the concept that temperature reduces economic growth in any way impairs your ardent communism. It gives you something to correct me with when I post my other graphs.
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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YOU try working in this heat
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obviously the world socialist republic will have to have a policy of varying bands of heat-related rest dependent upon the latitude of the worker in question, ranging from a simple tea break up to a full blown siesta
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