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 Stories About: California AND energy AND energy at home AND solar voltaic power AND wind power
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Sweet home Alabama Street
Small wind in urban settings |
Adam Browning |
31 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| I never really thought much about small wind's potential as a significant source of a city's electricity supply. Windmills in a urban setting? I just don't see it. Didn't see it, that is, until I saw it. The other day I biked by 1303 Alabama St., in the Mission District of San Francisco. Softly -- very softly -- whirring overhead is a 1.9 kW Southwest Windpower Skystream windmill. The Choose Renewables resource estimator says that it's a class 3 wind site, but I wou ... |
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| Topics: wind power, solar voltaic power, energy at home, energy, California (all these topics) |
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