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Wind Energy Video

An often overlooked fact is that wind energy relies almost exclusively on fossil fuels for their production, transportation, and operation. Recent government energy policy has trended towards making wind energy seem more competitive: subsidizing wind to hide its cost, while raising the price of fossil fuels. All this accomplishes is increasing the overall price of energy, which helps no one. ——————————————————————————– Fan us on Facebook: bit.ly or Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com Music by Kevin McCloud, www.incompetech.com Wind turbine video courtesy Josh Leo, www.archive.org

tvc that won a gold lion under the film category in the 54th edition of the cannes international advertising awards. CREDITS: Country: GERMANY Advertising Agency: NORDPOL+ HAMBURG Country: GERMANY Creative Director: Lars Ruehmann Art Director: Bjoern Ruehmann/Joakim Reveman/Matthew Branning Production Company, City: PARANOID PROJECTS, Paris Country: FRANCE 2nd Production Company, City: PARANOID US, Los Angeles Country: USA Director: The Vikings

Just launched! Watch our stunning new time-lapse video of the construction of 3 wind turbines at Bristol Port. The turbines will produce over 15 million units of new green electricity annually, enough to save around 13000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year for the next 30 years! www.ecotricity.co.uk

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A Dorky Engineering Student explains how a homebuilt wind turbine create usable Electrical Power

Increasing usage of wind and solar power is a high priority, but easier said than done. Russ Mitchell shows us a modern-day battle to build a wind farm.

GE (General Electric) released a TV ad promoting wind energy: Capturing the wind and putting it to good use – Wind Energy from GE, the cleanest renewable energy on earth. The ad has been nominated for the most outstanding commercial in the Emmy Awards 2007. The General Electric Jar ad was developed at BBDO, New York by chief creative officer David Lubars and Bill Bruce, creative director/art director John Leu, creative director/copywriter Brad Roseberry, executive producer Regina Ebel, assistant producer Filomena Lovecchio, executive music producer Melissa Chester. Filming was directed by Traktor (Pontus & Patrik) via Partizan with director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men). Editor was Gavin Cutler of Mackenzie Cutler. FX was done at Mass Market. Music in the ad is ‘Catch the Wind’, performed by Donovan.

How one entrepreneur is hoping to make waves in urban areas by catching city wind

CBS Sunday Morning did a piece on west Texas and their Wind Turbines