Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Unknown Artist Red Horizon painting

Unknown Artist Red Horizon paintingGeorge Stubbs Whistlejacket paintingCaravaggio The Raising of Lazarus painting
You know how it goes; It’s Friday night, you’ve had a beer (or four) and somehow the conversation turns to the oddest green technologies. Well, this happened to Greenbang’s D. Lorenz this weekend, here are his conclusions.
1. The Floating Wind Turbine
Greenbang can’t help but ponder how spooky it might be to get marooned on one. How do they not just get blown around the sea or blown over?
A small distance off the south coast of Italy Blue H will shortly switch on the first such turbine. The company swats away suchfripperies.
“Blue H has developed a new solution by adapting the concept of submerged tension-legged platforms developed by the oil industry for some of its offshore rigs, and designed a platform large and stable enough to support a tower and a wind turbine,” says the release.
2. The Algae
Algae hasn’t always had a good reputation. Mostly it’s known for propagating horribly

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