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Maine is already considered the windmill capital of New England, but now Maine is considering whether not to add more windmills in their future. They are hoping to add 2 more wind turbine farms, which would generate 186 megawatts of power altogether. This amount of energy would power 70,000 average homes. 

These projects were turned down last year because there was a lot of concern about building in sensitive wildlife areas and the cost of the development. The residents of Maine would really like to see the project happen, so the Land Use Regulation Commission will be revisiting the idea and looking at preliminary plans.

There is still opposition to the plans from groups that are worried about how the landscape will be changed and how the windmills will affect wildlife. They are working to find a solution that will make everyone happy.

Here at Windmills to Power Your Home we applaud Maine’s efforts to add more windmills to their grid.

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OK, this is a house not the Enterprise, but it still might be the wave of the future.

Have you been wondering where to use windmill power? There are houses that make windmills an important part of the house’s structure. These are called Packaged Earthships and they are very economical, because the owner can build a lot of it themselves instead of hiring contractors, and they are living completely off the grid. Also the main building materials, old tires and dirt can be obtained very inexpensively or sometimes even free.

Earthship  is versatile.

The Earthship is the brainchild of Michael Reynolds, who started building them in Taos, New Mexico in the 1970s. Today these innovative houses are being used in such places as India, France, Mexico, Belgium, Nicaragua, England Japan, Scotland, Honduras, Bolivia, Hawaii, and Nebraska.

What exactly is an Earthship?

The basic idea of the Earthship Biotecture is to use old tires filled with dirt to build the outer walls. Old cans and bottles are used to build the interior walls. One wall should be mostly windows to take advantage of the sun. All the walls, except the window wall and the walls made of bottles would be hidden by plaster to create an adobe look. The houses are even partially built into the ground. The building materials used and the natural insulation from being built into the earth make the most of the day’s heat to create a very temperate home of around 70 degrees all year without heating and cooling costs. These self sufficient homes also have their own sewage treatment and have a rain water collection system as well as using solar panels and a photovoltaic / wind power system to generate electricity.

Find out how you can build yourown by getting Earthship

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