Alternate Energy Environmental Poster Wind Poster - The Benevolent Breeze
- Al Kettler
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24 x 34 inches ~ (60 x 86 cm)$275
- Unbacked
This poster is currently unbacked. At check out, you will be given the opportunity to add backing which would cost $145 and take approximately 6-8 weeks.
Linen backing is the industry standard of conservation. Canvas is stretchered and a sheet of acid free barrier paper is laid down. The poster is then pasted to the acid free paper using an acid free paste. This process is fully reversible and gives support to the poster. A border of linen is left around the poster and can be used by a framer to mount the poster so that nothing touches the poster itself. Backing is what we recommend for framing, and for any poster needing restoration.
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- Windpower, the benevolent breeze, has been used for thousands of years to pump water, grind grain, and power water vessels. By 1900, 100,000 windmills were operating in Denmark, and by 1910, over 1,300 of these were generating electricity. More than 6 million windmills were built in the U.S. over the last century although most were abandoned due to cheap electricity supplied through the rural electrification program. 150,000 of these still spin productively. • In 1931 the U.S.S.R. built the world's first large wind generator near Yalta with a 100,000 watt turbine. Today, much larger units are powerful enough to supply electricity to hundreds of homes; tiny "household wind systems" are small enough to supply merely a single lightbulb. • The United States is well endowed with sites favorable for harnessing wind energy where average annual wind speeds are over 12 mph. The best sites are in mountainous areas, in the great plains, along the coastlines, and around the great lakes. • Significant progress has been made in the establishment of windfarms around the U.S. These are clusters of wind turbines that are placed in especially windy spots like the Altamont Pass in California (over 7000 windmills have already been installed at several sites in that state likewise, small-scale commercial windfarms are now operating in Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont and Montana. • Recently, the use of wind powered sailboats has revived in the transportation industry. Cargo ships have been outfitted with rigid, computerized sails to catch the power of the wind; as a result ships' engines run at less speed using substantially less fuel. • Windpower is a source of free clean energy with further development of the technology, improved means of storing this energy, and economical mass production of windmill equipment, wind power will play an important role as a renewable energy source at thousands of sites around the world.The Benevolent Breeze© 1984 Al Kettler Artwork • P.O. Box 221, Glen Echo, Maryland 20812 U.S.A. • Design, illustration, and production by Al Kettler
Printed by Virginia Lithograph • Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.One of a set of three alternative energy posters by Kettler - Wind Power, Solar Energy, and Geo Thermal
