Mean Green Are Smart And Self Sufficient

[FirefightnRick]

Mean Green Alumni are known for earning their keep, making their own way and making a positive mark in this world. We are survivalists and know how to get the job done. In comparison to the pampered and caudled education one might expect at a private school, North Texas makes you learn it and earn it and it pays off in the long run. Never has this been more evident than watching North Texas alumnus Alex Balic installing his own 30KW wind generator yesterday out in Argyle. His home usuage is around 12KW. That means the excess electricity this thing produces goes back into the power grid and the electric company must pay him for it. As many of you remember Alex was one of the designers with me in building "Boomer". For those that don't know, unlike other schools who go out and pay someone to build their cannon for them, North Texas built their own, which kind of falls into the overall meaning behind this post I suppose?

Very cool, to make your own energy, and get paid for it as well.

Rick

Hooking the hoist link up.

[UNTflyer]

Mean Green Alumni are known for earning their keep, making their own way and making a positive mark in this world. We are survivalists and know how to get the job done. In comparison to the pampered and caudled education one might expect at a private school, North Texas makes you learn it and earn it and it pays off in the long run.

I don't know, Rick... sounds like jealousy to me!

http://www.gomeangreen.com/forums/index.ph...st&p=300414

Very cool setup. I wonder if my neighbors would complain if I got one...

[meangreendork]

That's outstanding, and I think you're right about UNT alum, too. Being a new one, it's been a lot of "learn and earn" lately.

[greenminer]

Can you rent cranes like that?

[FirefightnRick]

Can you rent cranes like that?

Yes, I believe it was $375 for the time used, and I believe the time starts when they leave their yard and doesn't end until

they leave your property. Not sure on the time it took, but all they had to do was set up and raise it. He did the hooking and unhooking, as you can see

in the second photo, that's him, 60 feet up unhooking the hoist rope.

This thing has it's own transmission that regulates the speed in high winds, and as the wind increases or decreases, the blades automatically turn on their own axis to find optimal bite into the wind. In case of high winds such as those that produces tornados or high straight line winds, it will shut off and deactivate to protect itself. Those blades were in his shop while we were working on Boomers' limber last summer and we had to move them about

several times and they are really freakin heavy, very long and very cumbersome to move about. But looking at them up on the tower they look tiny.

Rick

[Boomer23]

All I can say is AWESOME