BrainBroom Commercial Wind Energy -- see illustration of Electric Plant at bottom of this page.

2009-03-22T14:02:00.000-07:00

Chicago Tribune today has a front page story about Chicago's mayor
"breaking promises to use wind energy".

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"Mayor Richard Daley promised long ago that his administration would start fighting global warming by buying 20 percent of its electricity from wind farms and other sources of green energy."

"But more than two years after the deadline he set, the city continues to get nearly all of its power from coal, natural gas and nuclear plants, according to records obtained by the Tribune."

"Daley administration officials contend they have kept the mayor's promise by buying carbon credits, a controversial way of offsetting pollution by paying money to producers of green energy. The credits are supposed to lower the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide sent into the atmosphere."

"But most of the credits Chicago has bought over the last two years didn't reduce carbon emissions at all, energy experts and the city's own broker on the deal said."
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Dear Mayor: Why not work with us to build new electric plants based on wind?

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2009-03-20T06:25:00.000-07:00

Here's a story about birds getting killed, in a new government report, reported by the Chicago Tribune

Note: The shape of a vertical axis turbine (the kind being developed by us) is much, much less likely to kill birds, because they can see it all the time while it is rotating.

Here's the actual report at State of the Birds Organization. A beautiful video about birds is on the home page. A conclusion of the report: "Collisions with wind turbines.... cause significant mortality".

Here's an article about bird deaths in Scotland Sea Eagles being killed by turbines. One sentence says: "...Four birds were found dead in just over a week....".

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2009-03-19T14:21:00.000-07:00

Interesting article on small wind:
Article about Small Wind Turbines on CNN

Also, check out our new web-site Breeze Farming (a subsidiary of Brain Broom, Inc.)

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2009-03-10T20:19:00.000-07:00

The idea of "emissions trading" (sometimes they call it "cap and trade") is getting a lot of talk these days. It is a way of controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emission of pollution.

While we all wait for the big plans to get set up, consider what you can do now. You can have your own personal, voluntary, "cap and trade" system for reducing pollution.

You start by estimating the current cost of pollution by your electric use. Let's say, just for example, you decide you are costing the planet one thousand dollars of pollution from electricity. You can pay incentives to us to offset the cost of that pollution. We will use those incentives to help build electric plants powered by the wind which has no pollution.

Keep your receipts from your donations (incentives), and when you have reached $100.00, that will build a wind turbine which will generate $200.00 worth of electricity (this is what we expect). At that time, you will have achieved an allowance, or credit, which can be deducted from your total cost of pollution. So, instead of a total cost of $1000, you will only have a cost of $800. (1000 minus 200 equals 800).

Let's not wait for the Kyoto treaty to be ratified, let's start our own "emissions trading" program. ----------------- Tom Hayward

Donate to lower your total cost of pollution.

2009-03-09T19:28:00.000-07:00

If one thousand people around the world donate a few dollars each, we could finish the prototype faster, and get some electric plants started, so everyone could see how local wind energy can be affordable, use less coal and oil, be safer for birds, and reduce the need for big transmission lines across populated areas.

These electric plants can be built anywhere in the world where wind blows an average of at least twelve miles per hour. Let's make a wall of energy to use the breezes to generate power.

The first prototype will carry the names of the first 50 donors (to remain anonymous, just let us know in the note section). The first electric plant will carry the names of all the donors.

Thank you, Rosemary Puckelwartz, President of BrainBroom, Inc.

To donate by email, click here:
Donate to help finish the prototype.

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2009-03-07T12:58:00.000-08:00

The company web site is http://www.brainbroom.net (NET, not COM -- please note)

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2009-03-07T10:10:00.000-08:00

(I just realized that this blog is using a name created a while back, which I should explain. Best_est is derived from an acronym (Energy = Strength times Temperature), which is the subject of another blog to be written, but I don't mind using it here.)

(Also, a quick digression on the name "BrainBroom". My great friend Rosemary (who is president of the company), was talking about having ideas one day and said the term out loud, and I thought it was a memorable phrase. Sounds like an engine starting up, revving "vroom vroom", and communicates the idea of "sweeping ideas to life".)

Anyway, back to what we're doing. Many people say don't waste your time working with vertical turbines near the ground -- the strong winds are several hundred feet up in the air, and those are the ones you want to work with. We're trying to make a trade-off. Low-cost instead of high-cost, low maintenance instead of high maintenance, low transmission cost instead of expensive, zero bird and animal threat instead of the opposite -- scale up in multiple units instead of scaling up in tower and blade size. And, put them locally on top of commercial buildings and hilltops. Bingo - commercial electric plant for 20 to 30 houses!

BrainBroom, Inc. has a patent pending, and is building a proof-of-concept prototype. It is called the Hayward-Duda model, and this blog will describe the progress of how it gets built, the results of the testing, and the attempts at improvement.

We recently (Feb. 26th) met with a couple of very helpful S.C.O.R.E. executives (they work with the Small Business Administration [SBA]), and they pointed out some things for us to work on.

Introduction

2009-03-07T09:29:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Web Log of our efforts to develop commercial scale wind energy electric plants, based on vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT) designs.

First, this is intended to communicate the steps we've taken, and steps we are working on, so you can follow along.

Second, we are looking for help from knowledgeable people. If you are interested, we'd like to hear from you, either here or through info@brainbroom.net.

Starting point: During the summer of 2008, while the oil prices shot up, the idea of using the power of the wind started a train of thought in my head. I know others have had similar ideas -- I have looked at a number of them.

(NOTE: Illustration of the electric plant (below) was created by Stephen G. Hayward, and it is licensed to BrainBroom, Inc.)
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