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A few years ago if someone were to have told you that you can generate electricity right inside your home, then you would have laughed at that person. Today, it is something that is no longer a fantasy. It is a reality for which an increasing number of wind power turbines stand testimony. You can now easily build your own wind turbine and generate wind power electricity.

Ideally speaking, having a lot of free space around your home would be preferable, if you want to build your own windmill and turbine. Roofs of houses are another place which is ideally suited for installing wind power turbines. Building your own wind turbine is not that a difficult process, if you were to follow instructions from a do it yourself wind turbine guide. You can find many such useful guides over the internet. These guides usually come with detailed step by step instructions which you need to follow in order to build wind power turbines.

You can easily find all the supplies needed for building your own windmill at a hardware store near you. This apart, you can even go one step further and make one from scrap materials. This way you would be doing even more good to the environment. For instance, you can always visit the local junkyard for some of the materials or parts that you will need to build wind power turbines. You can easily find PVC pipes in junkyards, which can be used for making the blades of the wind turbine. Something as simple as an old roller paint pan can be used to make the tail of the turbine. Being innovative is the key to building wind power turbines. This kind of an approach will also make the entire building process fun too.

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My siblings and I all live in different parts of the country. Both or our parents are dead. they have a home in the country. To pay utility bills for this home as well as our own is expensive. If enough electricity could be generated to keep the pipes from freezing in the winter at little or no cost to us it would be great. I was wondering about solar. Can anyone give me any pointers?

The initial installation of a solar electric system is expensive. If it is a quality unit the regulator/converter unit will hold up for a long time with little or no maintenance. You will also have a bank of batteries which may require some maintenance depending on the type. The system will have to be matched to the expected load, in your case heat tape on the pipes. The panels on the roof will have to be cleaned and keep clear of snow and ice. For more specifics you should contact a solar contractor. The contractor will determine the system that best meets your needs and estimate the cost.

Contrary to what many people think, windmills have been in existence for a pretty long time now. With advancing technology, windmills are finding a greater number of uses these days. Moreover, these days you can also build one yourself. A do it yourself or DIY wind mill is not that difficult to build, as many people perceive it to be. You can now generate DIY wind power, quite easily through the following tried and tested steps.

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1.    The first step involves you being ready with all the components that you need for building your windmill. The first thing that comes to mind as soon as you think of DIY wind power is the rotor blades. You can easily make them using PVC pipes, which are both durable, as well as cost effective. The blades should be ideally made from PVC pipes measuring between 7 to 10 inches in diameter. Of course the size of the blades will also depend on the amount of DIY wind power that you want to generate.

The next component that should be ready with you is the generator. Once the generator is in place, you will then need the shaft and the tower. The shaft has to be carefully fitted in place in such a manner that it rotates in all directions to catch wind. The height of the tower can be decided by you.

2.    The next step involves making sure that you have got all the basic tools with you. These typically include hammers, screw drivers, saw, electric drills and paint. You can seek professional help to connect your DIY wind power turbine to the existing wiring system in your home. An electrician is best placed to give the finishing touches to your wind power system. Alternately, you can also do the job yourself by following instructions from a DIY wind power guide too, if you feel that you are adept at it.

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I’ve seen a couple homes around my town that have solar power and I live in the Desert, where the sun is shinning and it gets really hot during the summer. We run our air conditioner a lot making our electricity bill high.

So I just wanted to know if anyone has or knows anyone that has solar panels? are they worth getting and is it the same as having electricity?

I have been doing my homework on these for a couple of years now and have decided that for me, they aren’t worth the investment at this time because a huge area needs to be dedicated for the panels in my particular situation and you can easily spend the equivalent of the cost of a luxury car on solar panels. The problem comes in when they don’t pay for themselves as "quickly" as many people say they do, which happens a lot. Spending up to six figures and waiting for the expenditure to "pay for itself" can be very frustrating when you find that will happen 20 or 30 years down the road and not the 2 or 3 as is sometimes suggested.

Also, some people find that they have problems with their roofing that needs to be addressed before the panels are installed. Things such as leaks, sagging roofs, etc., can lead to greater issues after the expense and labor of panel installation has taken place. Then, you’ll be looking at more costs to remove panels, repair the roof, and re-install the panels. Typically, you would have people that are knowledgeable enough to thoroughly inspect the roof (or any area the panels will be installed), but that is not always the case and you could be left holding the bag.

If you go all out to include whole house service from the solar panels, you will not notice much if any difference between solar power and your electric company. If you’re in the desert and have plenty of room for the panels, you should be okay. However, there are lots of ways to attack that electric bill without spending thousands on solar panels.

Have you installed the new energy saving lightbulbs throughout your home? Have you switched to a tankless water heater? Have you got at least double, if not triple paned windows? Energy efficient doors and appliances? Have you tried using portable solar panels for certain appliances? Is your home insulated well? Are all the holes and cracks plugged and insulated? Is your HVAC system an energy efficient and well maintained one?

After you have done ALL of these things, you will see a difference in your electric bill and will likely have spent no more than, and likely LESS, the cost of buying and installing solar panels. However, the difference is that all of these things work in concert to increase your comfort and the home’s efficiency without paying for the equivalent of a hot new Mercedes convertible.

The 18th arrondissement of northern Paris is located on the Right Bank of the Seine River. Its land area is about 2.3 square miles (a sliver over six square kilometers). The population is one hundred eighty five thousand and the area is home to about seventy thousand jobs.

The distinctive Moulin Rouge (Red Mill or windmill) is the central highlight of this historic district. It is one of the world’s best-known nightclubs or to use the French term, cabaret. The Moulin Rouge was built in 1889 by the owner of the Olympia, Paris’s oldest music hall located in the neighboring ninth district. You can’t miss this building because of the imitation red windmill on the roof. Josephine Baker, Frank Sinatra, Mistinguett, Edith Piaf, and many other famous entertainers regularly played the Moulin Rouge. The story has it that Elvis had a crush on a can-can dancer and never went to Paris without stopping at the Moulin Rouge.

This cabaret’s most unusual star was undoubtedly Joseph Pujol, who performed under the name Le Petomane. His act consisted of “singing” from a rather unexpected body opening. His “songs” included the French National Anthem, La Marseillaise, and an imitation of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. I’m told Sigmund Freud used to catch his act. Believe it or not, for many years Pujol was the highest-paid entertainer in France. A present-day British comedian Mr. Methane dressed like a superhero does the same sort of thing, but to my knowledge has not played the Moulin Rouge.

This historic cabaret, arguably the site where striptease was born, has been immortalized in paintings by Toulouse Lautrec and to a lesser extent by two films nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award, the 1952 version starring Jose Ferrer and Zsa-Zsa Gabor and the 2001 version starring Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman.

Butte Montmartre is a hill about four hundred feet (one hundred thirty meters) high not very much more than a hop, skip, and a jump away from the Moulin Rouge. Its height and natural beauty have attracted religious ceremonies since time immemorial. Montmartre was probably used for druid ceremonies in the distant past. It once hosted a temple to the Roman god of war Mars. Saint Denis, the Bishop of Paris and the patron saint of France, founded a church there before he was martyred in the mid-Third Century. His church, the relatively unknown Saint Pierre de Montmartre, claims to be the founding location of the Jesuit order of priests. You are more likely to visit the hill’s other church, the Basilica du Sacre Coeur (Basilica of the Sacred Heart) described below.

The area itself was the site of the first Paris Commune insurrection in 1870-1871 and its former gypsum mines serve as unmarked tombs for many partisans of this French revolution. The whole affair was pretty bloody and the Archbishop of Paris was one of its many martyrs. When Paris was reconstructed in the Eighteenth Century by Napoleon III and his minion Baron Hausmann, the poor people of Paris were driven out of the city center to Montmartre and other parts of the outskirts.

From the late Nineteenth Century until the end of World War One Montmartre was home to the artists and their milieu. Among those who hung their hats in Montmartre were Salvador Dalí, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent van Gogh. The list goes on and on. In later years the artistic center of Paris, and in fact the world, switched from Montmartre to Montparnasse located in the south of Paris. In 1965 in his famous song La Boheme the popular French singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour tells the story of a painter reminiscing about his youth in a Montmartre that has ceased to exist: Je ne reconnais plus/Ni les murs, ni les rues/Qui ont vu ma jeunesse/En haut d’un escalier/Je cherche l’atelier/Dont plus rien ne subsiste/Dans son nouveau decor/Montmartre semble triste/Et les lilas sont morts (’I no longer recognize/Neither the walls nor the streets/That had seen my youth/At the top of a staircase/I look for an atelier/Of which nothing survives/In its new decor/Montmartre seems sad/And the lilacs are dead’).

Montmartre is no longer bohemian. But what is? If you stroll around the Place du Tertre you won’t have any trouble finding artists, some of whom are struggling. Many renowned artists and other cultural figures such as Jacques Offenbach and Francois Truffault are buried in the Cimetiere de Montmartre (Montmartre Cemetery).

In 1873 Paris city council expropriated land at the summit of Montmartre for the construction of the Basilica. The foundation stone was laid in 1875 and the church was opened for services in 1891. The Basilica was only completed in 1914, and formally dedicated after the end of World War I. Go to top of the dome for a spectacular panoramic view of Paris, which lies mostly to the south. The church and its surroundings have often starred in films, most recently the 2001 movie Amelie. You may want to take the funicular (cable-car) to get to the top of the hill.

Among Montmartre’s museums you will find the Musee de Montmartre, the house where the painter Maurice Utrillo lived and worked in a second-floor studio. Several other well-known artists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir lived here. In 1990 his painting Bal au moulin de la Galette, Montmartre featuring local people sold for more than $78 million. You might also want to stop by the Espace Dalí, a museum devoted to the famous Spanish painter Salavdor Dalí. More extensive collections of his work are found in Figueres, Spain and Saint Petersburg, Florida. Another museum is the Musee de l’erotisme in the nearby Pigalle section of the district. Do you need a translation?

When we launched this series we promised you a Paris vineyard. The fifteenth arrondissement in southern Paris also hosts a vineyard. But Montmartre’s vineyard is much more famous. Local intellectuals planted the vineyard in 1934. They chose a northern exposure (is Paris really that hot, temperature wise?) and organized the first grape picking a year after the planting, about three years too early. This ceremony attracted both the President of the French Republic and the Minister of Agriculture. With the exception of the World War II years, every October the grapes are picked and wine is made in the cellar of the Mairie (the local City Hall). Local artists paint labels for the bottles, sold in April at a charity auction. Yet one more reason to visit Paris and Montmartre in the spring.

Of course you don’t want to tour Paris without sampling fine French wine and food. Let me suggest a sample menu: Start with Foie Gras avec Gelee de Viognier (Goose Liver Pate with Viognier Jelly). For your second course savor Chevreau a l’Ail et Herbes Sauvages (Baby Goat with Garlic and Wild Herbs). And as dessert indulge yourself with Granite aux Pommes et Calvados (Apple and Calvados Ice). Your Parisian sommelier (wine steward) will be happy to suggest appropriate wines to accompany each course.

Levi Reiss
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