Hey! News from Our Time Zone that isn't Totally Depressing!
Palestinian and Israeli entrepreneurs have just announced a joint venture to build and sell wind turbines in the West Bank and its environs:
A year ago the Brothers Group made e-mail contact (in English, their common language) with Israel Wind Energy, a company that was founded about a year ago, which provides wind turbine solutions and has also developed its own wind turbine. "We got emails from them last year," says Yanir Avital, the Israeli company's founder, standing at Salem's side. "They were interested in our product. We visited their company in Bethlehem and felt they could be a good partner. We could use [Salem's] connections, and with our connections we could help their company go one or two steps ahead."
The two sides intend to first cooperate on the integration of the wind turbines in the PA and later branch out beyond the region. "We'd like to develop and install wind turbines in the territories," says Avital. "In Israel we have very few places that can use this kind of energy."
Okay, perhaps it's a little thing, all things considered. But people need to remember that there are people in this part of the world who are not totally insane.
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May '10
Re: Hey! News from Our Time Zone that isn't Totally Depressing!
Perfectly illustrates how sanity is relative: In the States, the building of windmills is an indication of insanity; in the West Bank, it indicates a refreshing bit of reason.
May '10
Re: Hey! News from Our Time Zone that isn't Totally Depressing!
Not only that, this is one of the few situations in the world where it makes some technical sense. If you don't have a reliable power grid, any source of energy is a net plus, so you are not wasting money and energy by supporting an intermittent primary source with an inefficient back-up source (the way it is in the US, where the core base-load generation is not readily started and stopped, and thus wind only increases cost). Windmills and PV used to add power in places where it otherwise wouldn't be continuous anyway actually works.
May '10
Re: Hey! News from Our Time Zone that isn't Totally Depressing!
Way to throw a wet rag on my ironic point with your "technical" "expertise" and "facts." What know-it-all party pooper.
May '10
Re: Hey! News from Our Time Zone that isn't Totally Depressing!
Happy to help, Scott! ;-) Of course, I thought that "Not only that...." was supporting your comment, not trashing it.
In my day job, I get into a lot of stuff (ask me about biomass conversion or the latest on tissue rejection drugs); I just sent off a signed an agreement this morning with a big wind tower (the 't" is not a typo) company.
Now ask me about all the photovoltaics agreements I've done for the prof who runs our solar car program!