Tuesday, August 12, 2008

80% Of Your Electricity From A Miniature Windmill On The Roof Starck is battling on another front - developing cheap, attractive, energy-saving products to "introduce everybody to ecology." The first of his Democratic Ecology products is to be launched this fall, a miniature roof-top windmill, priced between €500 and €800, which will produce up to 80 percent of a home's energy. The windmill is an encouraging start. Made from the same transparent plastic as his best-selling Louis Ghost chairs, Starck developed it and the other Democratic Ecology products in collaboration with Pramac, the Italian industrial group. The timing is propitious with oil prices rocketing and everyone from General Electric to the veteran oilman T. Boone Pickens investing in alternative energy. Lots of homes already sport metal wind turbines on their roofs, so why not transparent plastic ones?....

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If each house in the country had one of these power generators on his buildings as was able to use and sell back electricity we wouldn't have to have these giant wind farms all over the country. I would like more information on them as well.