Special thanks to Joanna Martin of Online Schooling.net, for sending me this wonderful article, that covers all areas of ancient and historical calendars. The link will be on my blogroll, for further information and reference. It is our hope, that you find it both useful and helpful. You will find some other resourceful inks in the sidebar, while visiting there. Enjoy the read!
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Ancient and historical calendars were created by ancient civilizations
Ancient historical civilizations were interested and invested their time, in recording and measuring the passage of time. Seasons, months and years were dictated by the motion of the celestial bodies and would lead to the development of the modern day calendar.
As you may recall, Google hosted a contest last year. The winner in the category for wind turbines/power, was the Jellyfish Wind Turbine from Clarian technologies. I thought this was such an innovative idea, I posted about it in January 2009, as Jellyfish Windpower , and updated the topic again in June 2009, as JellyFish Plug-In Windpower .
The JellyFish, is a great innovation in Wind Turbines. It changes the public perspective, that a wind turbine should be big, expensive, and has to be, more than 30 feet tall. The Jellyfish has dimensions of only 48” x 36” (1.2m x 0.9m), and weighs about 30 pounds. Roughly, it is able to generate about 40 kWh / a month, on an average windy day. That’s enough to power a room with CFL light bulbs, a blender, or a toaster. There is no fancy setup, to use the Jellyfish. Just plug it directly, into electrical sockets. It also comes with Wi-Fi and WiMax, modules.
The Genius behind Jellyfish, is Seattle’s Chad Maqlaque. He visions that, “We could have 10,000 of these sitting in a city, when networked—it’s like a virtual utility…”
The Jellyfish Wind Turbine, is not available for market, just yet, but will be in 2011. However, you can sign up online(Below) for pre- order,to be sure to get yours, through their site, at clariantechnologies.com. It’s expected to retail for around $400. At higher production volumes, the prices may be dropped to $199. This is where if we start demanding these products, more will be made, and they should become cheaper.
My friend Linda, at Forced Green, recently posted about the JellyFish, and the SunFish. We both love the idea, of what these products can do. Let’s work together, by contacting QVC and Costco, so we can help get these products, on the shelves. These two companies, have been quite helpful, in getting new and innovative products on the market, and they’ve been doing it for years. Together, we can all be working, toward better and greener tomorrows for everyone!
During those early days, of the Obama administration, environmentalists believed, they had found the message to carry them to victory. The stage was set, on what promised to be a grueling debate, over energy and climate policy. The topic was, and still is this: At a time of soaring unemployment, (which is still the case), a climate bill, would create thousands, or millions of new “clean energy, or green” jobs. So, where are these jobs? You may have noticed signs, along the road, in your area, stating, where your tax dollars are going. Funny, thing is, the money was spent on the signs, not on fixing the ROADS. So much, for our stimulus dollars at work, but NOT, our people being EMPLOYED!
