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Sustainable Technology

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Wind-up Flashlight

Solar Water Heater

Wind Turbine

Sustainable technology provides alternative solutions to energy uses through more economical ways. Saving money on energy on a large building such as the OOM (Oklahoma Oil Museum) is a must. Seminole is a small town and bringing in sustainable technology into the museum will bring more people and better responses.

Sustainable development is a complex subject, which will continue to develop. The Government's vision of it is based on 4 broad objectives:

• maintenance of high and stable levels of economic growth and employment

• social progress which recognizes the needs of everyone

• effective protection of the environment

• Prudent use of natural resources.

(http://www.dti.gov.uk/sti/)

Solar water heaters produce copious amounts of hot water in sunny summer weather conditions. Now with vacuum tube technology they can make useful amounts of hot water right through winter too. This Navitron water heater is great quality and does exactly the same as vacuum units that are more than three times the price. The technology is based on the same principle as the 'thermos flask', the heat being trapped by the vacuum once it has been absorbed this gives extremely loss heat loss.

(http://www.ukhornets.co.uk)

A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_turbine)

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