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Looks like the The Statue of Liberty is green in more ways than one - America’s ubiquitous symbol for freedom is now symbolically free from fossil fuels. The Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island and several other federal facilities in northern New Jersey owned by U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) will run on 100% renewable power.

[RenewableEnergyAccess.com]

Dorset inventor Peter Hughes’ Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp generates between five and 50kW, each time a car drives over its metal plates, depending on the weight of the vehicle.

[BBC News]
[via Digg]

Low cost movable housing modules that can form different configurations on land, on water and under water. The Micro Dwellings can expand and grow together with other systems into small communities. They can be built onto rooftops of existing buildings or be suspended from a bridge or a wall.

The MICRO DWELLINGS consist of equal-sized units in the form of truncated octahedrons. Truncated octahedra will fill space when combined. They can also be joined with a variety of platonic and archimedic shapes into numerous combinations. The truncated octahedron is a plate-stable construction, which means that the construction once the plates are assembled, need no further reinforcement, as the plates themselves provide the support.

[Denmark’s Micro Dwellings]

“A Treatise on the Importance of Smoke”
by Joseph Lucas

All electrical components and wiring harnesses depend on proper circuit functioning, which is the transmission of charged ions by retention of the visible spectral manifestation known as “smoke”. Smoke is the thing that makes electrical circuits work. Don’t be fooled by scientists and engineers talking about excited electrons and the like. Smoke is the key to all things electrical.

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Clarke explains why some still believe electronic devices run on electricity rather than smoke…

There seems to be some occasional confusion about the term “letting the smoke out” of electrical or electronic devices. I thought it might be informative, and hopefully enjoyable, to some if I explain the term and its origins.

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RVers and busconverters don’t generally deal with as many intricacies in designing a renewable energy electrical system as the off-grid community, but the off-gridders’ level of expertise is always good reading for those interested in extended-term living without the shore line…

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