Answer To Energy Crisis Blowin’ In The Wind

Never let anybody tell you that the city’s conservative broadsheet doesn’t care about the environment. Yes, the Evening Bulletin has a thoughtful piece today on urban windmills, small ones, that could power your whole home.

Does the Bulletin speak about the plight of the energy companies? No! Writer Josh Meyer writes, “Utilities will complain about alternative energies, but they have an enormous infrastructure to support. If people start making their own energy, we no longer have the need for long power lines and subsidized energy plants.” Oh snap!

Although Philadelphia doesn’t have the level of wind economically viable to produce giant windmills, smaller windmills, Meyer says, could revolutionize the home and power the city!

Locally produced electricity could reach its destination within a few feet. If the resident isn’t home, most likely someone in the neighborhood will make use of that energy.

Microprocessors and chips are getting cheaper by the day. In the next couple of years, we are going to see an explosion in “Smart Homes,” or houses that have a central computer monitoring everything from cooking times to lights to heating and air conditioning units. These systems can be connected to the internet so that you can make sure that you didn’t leave the curling iron on from your office over the Internet.

Of all the benefits modern technology has brought us — the ability to have a job doing this, for example — I think the ability to check if I left the curling iron on is by far the greatest. Sign me up for some o’ this windmill power!

Where Is The Wind In This City? [Bulletin]