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Either biodiesel, ethanol or biomethane provide a better opportunity to close the carbon and nitrogen cycle than leaving raw materials rotting away venting methane and other compounds directly to the atmosphere.
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Absent hydrothermal
or tidal power and bio-char, then yes.
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On the other hand, in some regions air travel is actually more cost-effective and with lower emissions than other forms of transportation.
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Bucky Fuller: "Tracked to trackless, wired to wireless"
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I have already considered to install a roof-mounted wind power generator in my grandma's house, as it would be presumably easier and cheaper to make one repurposing an alternator.
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Figure of speech, I presume; but I'm greatly in favor of indoor windmills. Would y'all like to know more?
Be wary of attaching a mast to the wall of the house, the vibration might turn the wall into a drum-head or perform an unscheduled disassembly.
Consider a vertical axis with a tuned mass vibrational damper. Here's a link to some of the good work of fellow ecomodder-er, Julian Edgar:
www.autospeed.com:Mounting big driving lights, Part 2
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A Tuned Mass Damper needs to use a minimum mass about 10 per cent of the total mass of the main system, and as already said, it needs to have a resonant frequency about the same as the main system.
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Put the rotor above a skylight opening and a battery/controller box inside out of the weather.