Bullfrog Power

For residents of Ontario and Alberta, there's now a way to put our environmental money where our mouth is, that doesn't consist of green paint and crystal balls.

www.bullfrogpower.com .

For Ontario it's the same as all the other electricity retailers. They make the electricity and give it to Ontario Hydro, who sends it on to us and reads our meter. Costs an extra 4c per kWh, for us that's $270 for the last year. Same reliability as your old supplier; it's just they promise to pour enough "green" electricity into the great big shared tank to cover our use.

They source from wind-powered and low-impact hydro-electric, all audited and certified etc. to EcoLogo standards. Yes, the wind farms do cause some disruption, but it's less disruption than the same energy from other sources. And if we don't sign up, then others who might want to make even greener power, which is more expensive to generate than the older methods, will think there's no market for it.

Besides, the welcome kit (as displayed by Grandma and Grandpa) is filled with cute magnets and such, guaranteed to make the grandkids ask questions.

Cheers!

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They should check out
http://www.guelphsolar.ca/news.html

Basically, a guy put an ad in the local free paper asking if anyone was interested in going with him to buy the equipment, which is less expensive in bulk.

The first meeting was ... crowded. Including a lawyer and an electrical engineer and lots more. They plan to do kits and instructions (or find them, no sense re-inventing the turbine), so us little guys who barely know what an Amp is can do it ourselves. Up till now, it's been a matter of designing it all yourself (not for the faint of heart), or finding a kit from some obscure firm light years away.

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Between stimulus and response there is a space.
In that space is our power to choose our response.
In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

- Viktor E. Frankl

I drive past a wind farm as I head up to may parents. I believe there are 40-50 generators there.
It is interesting the number of times I drive past and they are not spinning and yet I would say there was enough wind to make them go.

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I have watched shows on it an Aussie rural areas have had issues about them...I think they look nice, but then I don't live next door to one!

I suppose we have to keep working on alternatives!

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up- Pablo Picasso.

With so many options for going green hopefully more things will become more accessible and available to people in general.

In the UK you can get grants to instal green methods of obtaining power.

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Like the Phoenix I rise from the fire. Beware all who try to tame me, you may get burned

Either that or get a few people to eat bake beans all the time.

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Tempory Frisker

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up- Pablo Picasso.

Would you blame them if you lived next door to that source?

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Like the Phoenix I rise from the fire. Beware all who try to tame me, you may get burned

Huh. How can not eating pigs and cows cut down on methane gas? Were they drunk or on weed?

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Tempory Frisker

I guess thats one way to look at it.

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Like the Phoenix I rise from the fire. Beware all who try to tame me, you may get burned