Happy day after Memorial Day. Hope you had as good a Memorial Day as me and my family. One of my “out of town” brothers and sis’n law stopped in for a visit. Only in this country, through all of our fallen heroes, we celebrate them with Memorial Day. Enjoyed the visit bro and sis’n law.

eddy vertical axis wind turbine

Since this day after is still part of the Memorial Day celebration, I’ll just lightly touch on my time in Dallas at the 2010 Wind Power expo. It was a truly memorable time. I made several new friends with some very excited people. This week, I’ll introduce you to one of the first people I met and tell you a little about him.

Me and Nick in front of eddy

Nick Blitterswyk is a very unique young man. Nick is the CEO of Urban Green Energy, a leading international company producing vertical axis wind turbines. Nicknamed “eddy”, the UGE-600 vertical axis wind turbine(pictured) is a 600watt vertical axis wind turbine that is relatively compact in size, lightweight and can be assembled in less than 1 hour. Urban Green Energy(UGE) has a line of their offerings that you can learn more about on their website at: www.UrbanGreenEnergy.com.

I would like to thank Joanne Barber for setting me up a time to talk to Nick and Nick for taking the time to talk with me.

The 2010 Windpower expo had a vast majority of traditional horizontal axis turbines and all aspects of transporting, erecting and maintaining them that the vertical axis wind turbines showcased were few and far between. I personally believe that vertical axis has a tremendous future and I will highlight some more of them in the next coming articles over the next few weeks. Make sure to be here to see some of these unique powerplants.

Make the most of what we already have, renewable energy. God Bless Tim

  1. Stephanie Bryant says:

    The Dallas Windpower Expo was really cool. I took some of the courses and toured the exhibits. I’m glad to see something in the blogs about it. SB

  2. admin says:

    Thank you, Stephanie,
    It really was a site to see. I’ll have a couple more articles posted over the next few weeks. Tim
    PS What courses/lectures did you get to attend?

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