Posts tagged michigan

timeforwasting: Small town one screen old-timey movie theatre in Clare, MI.  Doesn’t have the amenities of more modern theatres, but the tickets are always $4 for adults, $3 for children and a small popcorn is $1.   I love the Clare theater. Used to hit it up when I worked up at Lost Lake. -AK

timeforwasting:

Small town one screen old-timey movie theatre in Clare, MI.  Doesn’t have the amenities of more modern theatres, but the tickets are always $4 for adults, $3 for children and a small popcorn is $1.  

I love the Clare theater. Used to hit it up when I worked up at Lost Lake. -AK

timeforwasting

As someone from Michigan this is pretty much spot on. - AK

As someone from Michigan this is pretty much spot on. - AK

livefortravel

Oh I can not wait for this ski trip! Looks like there are a bunch of trails open and it should be a great weekend of snowboarding and having fun at the cabin. - AK

Oh I can not wait for this ski trip! Looks like there are a bunch of trails open and it should be a great weekend of snowboarding and having fun at the cabin. - AK

WANT

I love these Industrial and vintage items. 

You can buy these items and others like it from Haven Vintage on etsy. Colleen, the owner of the etsy store, is from Birmingham, Michigan which is located a couple miles from where I grew up. - AK

microbatdynamo: How one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan Building a solar farm isn’t hard if you have the money; you just pay contractors to show up, install electrical service, build the solar panel support infrastructure, and truck in the panels. But if you want to do it cheap, you could buy some land from a friend and set up your own fabrication shop, spending an entire summer welding together 50,000 pounds of structural steel and pouring concrete around 20,000 pounds of rebar to save serious cash on the infrastructure. Connor Field, a Michigan resident who built the largest solar farm in the state this way in late 2009, said drily, “I would not do that again.” “Do you know how to weld?” I asked him when we met recently in Ann Arbor to discuss the project. “I do now.” (via Ars Technica)

microbatdynamo:

How one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan

Building a solar farm isn’t hard if you have the money; you just pay contractors to show up, install electrical service, build the solar panel support infrastructure, and truck in the panels. But if you want to do it cheap, you could buy some land from a friend and set up your own fabrication shop, spending an entire summer welding together 50,000 pounds of structural steel and pouring concrete around 20,000 pounds of rebar to save serious cash on the infrastructure.

Connor Field, a Michigan resident who built the largest solar farm in the state this way in late 2009, said drily, “I would not do that again.”

“Do you know how to weld?” I asked him when we met recently in Ann Arbor to discuss the project.

“I do now.”

(via Ars Technica)

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ysvoice: | ♕ |  Turnip Rock, Port Austin, Michigan  | by Lars Jensen

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| ♕ |  Turnip Rock, Port Austin, Michigan  | by Lars Jensen

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electricpower: Lake Erie Non Profit LEEDCo Wins GE Turbines Progress was made this week to realizing the nations first wind freshwater wind farm in the shallow and vast expanse of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, by the Lake Erie Energy Development Company. The local non-profit group LEEDCo snared a deal with General Electric to supply the first five turbines for a $100 million demonstration project by 2012, as the first step of a 10-year plan to build a 200 turbine, 1,000 MW wind farm in the nearly 10,000 square mile lake by 2020, using state-of-the-art 4 MW turbines. CleanTechnica

electricpower:

Lake Erie Non Profit LEEDCo Wins GE Turbines

Progress was made this week to realizing the nations first wind freshwater wind farm in the shallow and vast expanse of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, by the Lake Erie Energy Development Company.

The local non-profit group LEEDCo snared a deal with General Electric to supply the first five turbines for a $100 million demonstration project by 2012, as the first step of a 10-year plan to build a 200 turbine, 1,000 MW wind farm in the nearly 10,000 square mile lake by 2020, using state-of-the-art 4 MW turbines.

CleanTechnica

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