Farm Windmills to Windmill Farms - Renewable Energy

It will be almost couple of years since my last trip to Hannover, Germany. Germany was really nice place to visit, clean and also reminded me a bit place when I used to live when I was a kid. Everything looked so clean, nice farm lands and beautiful architecture in places like Munster or Olsenburg, and lot of people on the bikes. Autobahn was fun, in some sections there was no speed limit and since it was still summer time, lot of bikers passed us, at the no speed limit zone of course. The interesting part of the whole trip was how environmentally friendly Germans are and two things being, self cleaning toilets and windmill farms or technically called wind turbines. I will leave self cleaning toilets for another day - I actually took a video of the whole mechanism, lol. However, the fascinating part of the trip was looking at the windmill farms. From far away they looked size of the light posts, but then when we drove closer and closer - they where huge. It all evolved from the original windmills used for grain grinding or pumping water by means of wind energy and blades. I hate to tell you but if there is any free magazine that interests me, I will subscribe to. Latest and greatest, is this European magazine called Power Engineering International. They happened to talk about design/manufacture of the wind turbines, and you know that the most important part of the wind turbine is the bearing on which the blades rotate. The whole idea is to have as little friction as possible or no friction, so even small wind activity will move the blades and convert the wind energy into electric power. Just to give you a quick fact, one of the largest bearing system made by SKF for 5M wind turbines is 1.5 meter inside diameter that weighs 2700 kg. Unfortunately, at times when we were driving through country roads there was no wind - that means no electric power was generated. In my opinion, the most effective location for the wind turbines is along the sea or ocean coasts, but then this is better than nothing. I would love to have one of those on my backyard, I wonder if my energy bill still be the same - don't forget the wind turbine maintenance costs - but then sell electric power you don't use and the costs will be recovered.
Today I have been tagged. I do have few tags saved up for the right time, so if you tagged me before and have not seen results yet - don't you worry. The New Years Resolution tag needs to be executed now, as who would want to do New Years resolutions in a mid year, I probably would, because it is never too late too change. This tag came from a lovely lady I got to know while ago named Max - smart, beautiful writer and full of energy young lady. I really enjoy her posts as they are written very well and with the purpose of making us think more about life - you will be surprised how addictive her posts are, sometimes I find my self going back 2-3 times to comment for the same post, and then I look at her visitors like Livingsword from Life on the Blade - oh boy I got some competition going, lol. Well, she always returns too to my blog until we narrow down our comments to two words like Thank You. Max your hard work and visits are always appreciated.

RULES
*Start Copy Here* When it comes to New Year’s Resolutions we seem to fall into four categories: 1) quite serious about them, 2) be flippant about them, 3) do it because we feel pressured to, or 4) do not do them. So, the purpose of this little game is to let us know which category you are in. Copy from “*Start Copy Here*” through “*End Copy Here*” and post it. Before "*End Copy Here*" tell us who you are, your site(s) (with link) and your New Year’s Resolution, or not. Then tag as many others as you like, from one to your entire blogroll, your choice. If you like, create an intro paragraph to your post that also acknowledges who tagged you.

WHAT ARE MY NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS?
My new years resolution is always the same - is to stay healthy, live healthy lifestyle, exercise, live stress free life and of cource care for the environment.

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT
As you can see most of my resolutions are towards healthy body, mind and soul and to care for environment. So I would like to give a special acknowledgment to Will Taft and his very resourceful blog. Doing things better is knowing more and applying it, and that is what Will does for us. He goes out of his way to research on the topics that we should know more about, and that also includes bunch of his blogger friends who always contribute valuable opinions to his posts. I suggest that even if you don't have much to say or comment back, please visit, read and learn. Once you live healthy life style believe me you will never want to go the other way.

HEY TAGGING TIME!
For this game I would like to tag the following bloggers: JB from JB's Big World, Roger from Idaho Daily Photo, Max-e from the Max files and MedaM from colored garden blog. I don't know if telling everyone why is a requirement in the tagging game, but I always do. I will always tell you I don't know who found who, just like what came first, chicken or egg (mind you the latest answer is the egg), but on the end it does not matter, all it matters that we became 'the blogger friends'. Starting with JB - explore interesting views from intelligent blogger cat, Roger - get laughs for life, Max-e - explore southern end of Africa, and why not pay a visit to colored garden of MedaM. Enjoy!