Article from Islands Sounder by Meredith Griffith
(http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/news/113094144.html)
This isn't your grandfather's long-bladed prairie windmill.
Almost whisper-quiet, the six-foot diameter Energy Ball V200 wind turbine looks like something out of the Howe art gallery: a gleaming silver orb of glass fiber polyester, composed of six blades fused at both ends. John Phillips recently applied for a permit to install an Energy Ball, anticipated to supply 9,000 kilowatt-hours of power annually to his Olga home, but the request was denied – based on a 25-foot height building restriction written into the 2006 Olga Hamlet Plan. The device is normally installed on a 35-foot pole or a rooftop...
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Great article. I've never seen the wind "energy ball" before. So stylish and it makes electricity! I'm all in support of efforts to make the approval/permitting process easier and more stream-lined so we can see more of the energy balls and other renewable energy systems around here.
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