Welcome to the WLAB.com Wind Lab
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Your WLAB.com Community Wind Lab Welcomes You
Our focus is Wind Power, also the focus of King Lear, in this famous Shakespearean soliloquy:
"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our steeples ... Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!" - William Shakespeare, King Lear, 3.2.1
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This forum is in beta. Our rules are simple (see below). Our mission is simple - Energy Independence - along the lines suggested by T. Boone Pickens at http://PickensPlan.com. That is, get right down to the important business of building out our wind, solar and vehicular natural gas infrastructure and technology, as bridges to TOTAL energy independence.
It makes great sense to attack Energy Policy issues with this singularly war-time sense of urgency and focus.
Like Boone and Shakespeare's King Lear, none of us should go gently into that Good Night! The mission is clear. For our children, grandchildren, our country (still the world's last best hope), Boone's legacy and our own, the time for changing our Energy Policy and practice is now. Boone's good fortune, multiple billions of dollars and his www.PickensPlan.com army should enable him to carry the ball a good distance down the field but the game will not be won without our excercising good leadership in all its forms.
W. Edwards Deming said Change is not necessary. Survival is optional. So, when Boone says "we can't drill our way out of this problem" I believe it is with the credibility of an oil man and a geologist, who has opted for the survival of that which he holds dear.
We need to put wind in his sails as he does ours. It's not all about money. It will take money, influence, communication, organization, ingenuity, invention, good leadership, teamwork and all of the blessings that flow from liberty. We can harness the energy of the Wind Belt and the Sun Belt with our farms, our land, our technology, our natural resources and our Yankee Ingenuity.
www.WLAB.com Wind Lab resources are available in this same spirit and we also like to invoke the spirit of Johnny Appleseed which is captured by the Joe Strummer song of the same name:
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As to site architecture, EasternGrid.com, WesternGrid.com & FarmerGrid.com now point to this site and may be pointed directly to boards here with those specific names after the site gets out of beta (projected for the Fall of 2008). GoodGrounds.com & LicensingWorks.com may point here eventually as well.
Community Rules
Used by permission of HaikuWorks.com
The basic concept is to allow wind farmers, landowners and frontier-spirited people of the world to embed videos that describe portions of their land suited to alternate wind power technologies that may also be promoted here.
Thanks for visiting! Please register and participate.
Rick
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 Sweetwater Stories
Sweetwater Stories <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/njou7pzf8rs&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/njou7pzf8rs&rel=0</a>]]>YouTube information-attribution: Added: August 20, 2008 (Less info) Sweetwater, Texas One of the many benefits of the Pickens Plan will be economic revitalization for many parts of rural America. Wind energy means good jobs in construction and maintenance, and a new source of income for landowners. Here's the story of one small town that was saved by the arrival of a major wind project. Learn more at PickensPlan.com Category: Science & Technology Tags: Sweetwater Texas TX wind power energy turbine windmill economy Pickens Plan | Write Comment
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NASA World Wind 1.4 trailer - Stunning Virtual Globe - Stay with this one to the
NASA World Wind 1.4 trailer - Stunning Virtual Globe - Stay with this one to the credits! <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-rfxy7mn7mw&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-rfxy7mn7mw&rel=0</a>]]>http://world-wind.co.uk/ & http://www.bullsworld.net
Imagine zooming in to the heart of your Natural Splendor, Wind Belt, Solar Mine, Ocean Floor, Geothermal, WineTrail or other property using a combination of Nasa World Wind, Nasa World Wind's Blue Marble software, cut to you and your JonesCAM, walking (or, better still, mountain biking) the metes and bounds of your farm, showing off its (wind, solar, biomass, , hydro, fill-in-the-blank) attributes to their best advantage. We could organize a cadre of bmx or mountain bike mounted videographers and World Wind developers to do something like that. It might be fun to try. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind
Nasa World Wind software manualand demos of the software by user Laurence Muller at University of Amsterdam: <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6AMv5mz6STo&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6AMv5mz6STo&rel=0</a>]]>YouTube information-attribution: November 23, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. The multitouch table (120x90 cm) has been build at the "Universiteit van Amsterdam" (the Netherlands) and uses Diffused Illumination. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.netLaurence Muller Category: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch UVA Universiteit Amsterdam research grid computing
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NvWTFOl04-4&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NvWTFOl04-4&rel=0</a>]]>YouTube information-attribution: November 10, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. Used MT technique: FTIR. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.netCategory: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch
See also, Bull's Rambles blog mostly about Wind World adaptations [url=http://bullsworld2007.wordpress.com/hom... | Write Comment
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NASA World Wind software - Show Your Natural Resources
NASA World Wind 1.4 trailer - Stunning Virtual Globe - Stay with this one to the credits! <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/-rfxy7mn7mw&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/-rfxy7mn7mw&rel=0</a>]]>http://world-wind.co.uk/ & http://www.bullsworld.net
Imagine zooming in to the heart of your Natural Splendor, Wind Belt, Solar Mine, Ocean Floor, Geothermal, WineTrail or other property using a combination of Nasa World Wind, Nasa World Wind's Blue Marble software, cut to you and your JonesCAM, walking (or, better still, mountain biking) the metes and bounds of your farm, showing off its (wind, solar, biomass, , hydro, fill-in-the-blank) attributes to their best advantage. We could organize a cadre of bmx or mountain bike mounted videographers and World Wind developers to do something like that. It might be fun to try. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind
Nasa World Wind software manualand demos of the software by user Laurence Muller at University of Amsterdam: <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6AMv5mz6STo&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6AMv5mz6STo&rel=0</a>]]>YouTube information-attribution: November 23, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. The multitouch table (120x90 cm) has been build at the "Universiteit van Amsterdam" (the Netherlands) and uses Diffused Illumination. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.netLaurence Muller Category: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch UVA Universiteit Amsterdam research grid computing
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/NvWTFOl04-4&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/NvWTFOl04-4&rel=0</a>]]>YouTube information-attribution: November 10, 2007 (Less info) Example movie of a custom written Nasa World Wind plugin (using touchlib) controlling the globe. Used MT technique: FTIR. No binaries/source public available yet. The plugin uses a custom touchlib wrapper for C#. Follow the project at http://www.multigesture.netCategory: Science & Technology Tags: Multitouch Nasa World Wind Touchlib multi touch
See also, Bull's Rambles blog mostly about Wind World adaptations [url=http://bullsworld2007.wordpress.com/hom... | Write Comment
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Boone Pickens Energy Plan Part 3 - Mr. Pickens explains wind & solar corridors
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Selsam's Sky Serpent Flying Superturbine: Popular Science Invention of 2008
Blog Post: Selsam.com & Popular Science Invention of 2008- Super Serpent Turbinewww.Selsam.comSky Serpent Flying Superturbine Prototype Demo - March 2008<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ddliyfspmr4&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Ddliyfspmr4&rel=0</a>]]>
Selsam Superturbine Sky Serpent - Popular Science - Ten Times the Turbine - Invention of the Year Awards 2008http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOGqURa1a8g
Energy. Independence. Ingenuity. Novelty. Utility. Nonobviousness. Invention. Synchronicity. If these are the stuff of your dreams prepare to be thrilled to the core by Doug Selsam's core business, an invention pipeline for energy (wind and hydrogen) independence at www.Selsam.com where the stuff of his dreams are put on display as they are conceived, reduced to actual practice and built-out for insertion in the stream of commerce. Once you get there scroll down for renderings of multiple, synchronous, small rotor wind arrays that blend into the background better than larger individual ones. Given a secure place to stand, we believe Mr. Selsam can move the world. He's developing [urlwww.longerlever.com]"longer levers" [/url]out lightweight composites, wood, dynamic anchoring devices, all held together by a healthy helping of Yankee Ingenuity. Popular Science Magazine awarded Doug Selsam's Superturbine its prestigious Invention of the Year laurel in the June 2008 issue. We believe Selsam may have solved the riddle wrapped in the enigma that describes the tricky business of mining power from wind and storing it as clean oxidizing hydrogen. We wish this latter-day Thomas Edison every success in these difficult times of fluctuating markets and gyrating economies. The irony is that the serious business of energy independence may well hold the keys to the kingdom of liberty that is freedom from foreign energy sources. Let us hope that the fount of innovation remains irrepressible as the American economy sorts itself out. The AlgorithmWorks Community is four-square behind the spirit that moves gifted inventors like Selsam. Look for his works to be featured on and around new discussion board-showcases which should appear in upcoming weeks at: www.WLAB.com The Wind Lab www.LibertyIsGreen.comwww.HydrogenWorks.comwww.AmericanaWorks.com(in proximity to the Yankee Ingenuity board) www.LandmarkTv.com(proximate to the Kinetic Architecture board) www.ProduceWorks.comwww.FarmerGrid.comwww.EasternGrid.comwww.WesternGrid.comwww.LongerLever.comwww.EconomicsWorks.comwww.UniversiTv.comwww.AlgorithmWorks.comGo Doug Go!!! Tags: ingenuity, composites, dual, energy, fly, independence, invention, kite, lightweight, nonobviousness
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Sierra Club's Carl Pope & Boone Pickens Rally: "How Do We Innovate?"
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Reconstructing Romeo & Juliet Windmill - Frank Lloyd Wright - Dreaming Tower
Reconstructing Romeo & Juliet - Frank Lloyd Wright Windmill - Dreaming Tower<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/peAF2_9siuA&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/peAF2_9siuA&rel=0</a>]]>Youtube information-attribution: In the mid 1990's, Frank Lloyd Wright's revolutionary 18 96 windmill, built for his aunts' progressive Hillside Home School was rebuilt under the supervision of architect Tony Puttnam, a former apprentice of Wright's. Category: People & Blogs Tags: architecture Frank Lloyd Wright windmill Hilside Home School
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Bloomberg - Inside Look: The Pickens Plan
Bloomberg - Inside Look: The Pickens Plan <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/JRVQyL4tUs4&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/JRVQyL4tUs4&rel=0</a>]]>Youtube information-attribution: Interview with BP Chairman/CEO T. Boone Pickens: Met with Both McCain and Obama to Discuss His Energy Plan Category: News & Politics Tags: NYSE:BP LON:BP Business Government Politics Law Legal Issues News Personal Finance Science Technology Shopping Commerce
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Slide Show Windmillls Wind Turbines Pickens Power Energy Oil
Slide Show Windmillls Wind Turbines Pickens Power Energy Oil <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/XQTICcy950I&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/XQTICcy950I&rel=0</a>]]>Youtube information-attribution: Added: August 20, 2008 (more info) (less info) Want to Subscribe? Sign in to YouTube now! Sign in with your Google Account! http://www.NelsonPlanSaveTh... This is a 79 part S... http://www.NelsonPlanSaveThePlanet.com This is a 79 part Slide Showing how Windmillls or Wind Turbines in Kansas are built to create clean air electricity from the wind. better use of our oil. They include. Website Links to Saving the Planet 1 http://www.PickensPlan.com The most USA's most aggressive plan to solve our energy crisis. 2 http://www.PickensPlan.com/news/ Please take an hour to learn in details what T Boone Pickens plan is as he speaks in the Topeka Town Hall meeting. 3 www.TheWindTurbines.com/Photographs/Wind mills.html How many different kind of wind turbines are there? Most are adapted to farm colonies where many are linked together for commercial use but there are some turbines made for individual use. 4 http://www.TheWindTurbines.com/ Read what you need to learn what to know about wind turbines which can have a big effect on how much oil we buy from overseas. One of the problems is using the energy from wind farms is how to get it transported to others parts of the USA. 5 http://www.EndAddictionToOil.com We can not be addicted to oil for ever without it costing us significantly in our pocket book, our freedom to live like we have been or to secure our future of being an independent country. 6 http://www.EndAddictionToOil.com/TBoo... Learn about the back ground of this 80 year old billionaire oil tycoon and see how he might be able to help the USA from getting caught in an energy crises or dilemma. 7 http://www.TheNaturalGasCars.com The USA has an a abundance of natural gas. If we use that in cars we can buy oil locally we can keep the jobs it creates at home. Sadly no natural gas cars are produced in the US today. GM makes 22 models outside the USA. Natural gas burns a lot cleaner than oil and costs less. 8 http://www.UseSolarPowerEnergy.com/ As we develop technology we can better use solar power as our energy source. There is a lot of it there. Read how solar energy works. You may be able to contribute an idea non promoting it. 9 http://www.DropOfOil.com An extremely powerful weapon we have in solving our addiction to oil is in "conservation". We waste significant amounts of oil. By conserving and not wasting in everything we do we can help save the planet by collectively saving one drop of oil at a time which will add up to tankers full. It is our most realistic consideration in solving our energy problem, but it is going to take a log of education and marketing to get that message across. 10 http://www.DropOfOil.com/SaveThe/Plan... Here are over 100 tips that you and your family use in leaning away from consumptivitis which eats into to our addiction to oil. 11 http://www.AmericanPatriotismNeeded.com This is about the hardest of all the projects to get a new energy plan rolling. The American public is not yet about to give up anything they have been used to using. It is going to take a real great "energy catharsis" to begin to change the attitude of each and every citizen knowing that our survival is dependent on demonstrating our loyalty to our country and the cause it has planned to cure the energy problem. It must start from the President and works its way down through every politician and leader. There has to be a common thread. It probably wont happen until we are so deep in an energy crisis that it might be too late to resurrect ourselves. 12 http://www.VideosBankruptcy.com/ Watch what some people think is a very high risk that the United States itself goes bankrupt. What happens when the US Government is out of real money and credit? Your life is going to change big time to a position far different than what you ever dreamed it could be. 13 http://www.ChangingIdeas.com/Global-W... Global warming is a valid flag raising concern. A high majority of scientists have affirmed global warming. When we reduce our consumption of oil we have a far greater chance of keeping global warming from becoming a predictable reality. 14 http://www.EndAddictionToOil.com/Wast... Waste and consumptivitis have been a major cause of the increased dependence we have on oil. Everything we do or use is related to oil. Changing this will come significantly when we are successful in making a change in our patriotism. 15 http://www.EndaddictionToOil.com/Wast... By learning to recycle everything we can make big difference in our demand for oil. 16 http://www.EndaddictionToOil.com/Webs... Learn about recycling things here. 17 http://www.UseSolarPowerEnergy.com/Ph... Look at all the different t... | Write Comment
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Maglev Wind Turbine Technologies - Lookin' mighty powerful - MWTT
<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7Qs2gFlt-o&rel=0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/Y7Qs2gFlt-o&rel=0</a>]]> Landowners & Windfarmers please take note. The MXTT requires only around 100 acres of land. Compare and contrast with other wind farms that require substantially more space to generate the same unit of power.
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