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US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed
coondoggie writes "On a day when one of the largest wind farm plans bit the dust, the US Department of Energy is offering up a five-year, $45 million grant to design and build a large dynamometer facility for testing 5 to 15 MW rated wind turbines and equipment. The DOE says such a facility is needed as the US has fallen behind other countries in the race to build ever-larger wind turbines for energy production. According to the DOE, the average size of wind turbines installed in the United States in 2007 increased to roughly 1.65 MW. Additionally, turbines already developed range in the 2.5 MW to 3.5 MW capacity sizes; with plans being developed for even greater power ratings. The larger wind turbines have outpaced the availability of US-based testing facilities, the DOE stated."
Hopefully they'll be able to test in the House of Congress because all that hot air is going to increase efficiency.
Making this movie was never the end goal for Nils or me. Never. This movie is just a launching point for something much larger.
In addition to building a franchise off of this first film project, we have tons of ideas for Rudius media. Some are easy to envision (books, movies); others will take a lot more resources and be dependant upon certain benchmarks associated with domestic receipts and other factors that I will explain soon.
The business plan for Rudius is diverse to say the least and will surprise many people. Without giving away too many secrets I will list just a few of the like 20 ventures we will be exploring.
Rudius Air: We are already in talks to purchase or lease two high-end private jets that will cater to specifically to filmmakers with out of state productions. Key words here are--TAX INCENTIVES. More on this later.
Crossbow and Rifle range: We have met with a few commercial realtors in Los Angeles to help us scout a location for an indoor firing range that isn't limited to handguns. There is a huge potential market for this in Southern California. People are just to lazy to do the research.
IHTSBIH Bar/Restaurant(s): Despite the plethora of places to eat in Los Angeles, there are only a few places to go and actually drink (without being surrounded by cokehead actors in shiny shirts). The problem why so many bars fail in this town is because everyone over thinks the concept. Not us. Don't get me wrong--there are HUGE obstacles for this; a liquor license being one as they are near impossible unless you stick to serving just beer and wine. We've run a broad concept past a few investors and got amazingly POSITIVE feedback. Again, this would be two years out at least, but two years is nothing in the timeline we have fashioned.
Keep your eye on the target not the prize.
Wouldn't it be cheaper in these days of cutting back to piggyback off of their research instead. NIH is the biggest waster of money ever. Study success everywhere you find it.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I'm sick of it. of The Xfounders of
New theory shows how everything starts with gravity. We live in a gravity-driven universe where gravity isnâ(TM)t just another force, it is actually the dominant, driving force that shapes all the others. Gravity is not a property of matter. It is not even a property of space. In fact, space, time and matter are all properties of gravity."
http://www.fhu.com/gravity-driven-universe.html