Green Operations: Wind Powers Illinois Restaurant
-- Restaurants & Institutions, November 5, 2009
[PRESS RELEASE] SCHILLER PARK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Schiller Park restaurateur Brian Great has single-handedly bought and installed “Big Windy,” a 112-foot, horizontal-axis, wind turbine that will produce more than 100 percent of the electric power needed to run The Great Escape restaurant. All excess power the turbine produces will go to the ComEd grid to supplement the power needs of the surrounding community. As many as 36 homes could be powered by the turbine when it is not providing power for the restaurant.
The turbine’s annual operation will save the equivalent of:
· 274.5 METRIC TONS OF CARBON DIOXIDE or
· 31,155 GALLONS OF GASOLINE or
· 639 BARRELS OF OIL or
· 50 AUTOMOBILES.
The cost estimate is expected to provide a carbon-neutral energy footprint that benefits the environment—and all of us.
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but for the noise and eye sore the turbine presents the neighboring houses, he is not providing them with energy , he is re-selling it to com ed? right?
Carl "Muppet" Mueller - 1/9/2010 4:21:56 PM PST
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