{"id":16182,"date":"2010-01-11T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/01\/adobe-hq-installs-20-new-wind-turbines.html"},"modified":"2010-01-11T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T16:21:03","slug":"adobe_hq_installs_20_new_wind_turbines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/adobe_hq_installs_20_new_wind_turbines\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe HQ installs 20 new wind turbines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Adobe building &amp; maintenance staff sure keeps busy during company breaks: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2009\/06\/adobe_is_closed_this_week.html\">in the fall<\/a> they installed more efficient HVAC systems, and over the holiday break they installed 20 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mariahpower.com\/\">Windspire<\/a> wind turbines at the San Jos\u00e9 HQ:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/m67Jb4xH-Nc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Adobe estimates that it can get about 2,500 kWh per year per turbine.  Comparatively speaking, the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that a typical U.S. home consumes ~11,000 kWh per year.  So these turbines, in the aggregate, provide enough electricity to power about 5 typical U.S. homes.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Considering that wind has always made opening &amp; closing the doors leading to the patio\/basketball court inordinately difficult*, I predict good things.  Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetsongreen.com\/2010\/01\/adobe-installs-windspire-wind-turbines-mariah.html\">more info on the effort<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>* Wind strength &amp; the attendant humiliation always correlate to the hotness of whoever is walking by.  Too bad we can&#8217;t harness <strong>that<\/strong>.<\/em><br \/>\n[Update: Here&#8217;s a rather cool <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mlNZIV6vHwI\">time-lapse video of a wind turbine being assembled<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chops893\">Via<\/a>]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adobe building &amp; maintenance staff sure keeps busy during company breaks: in the fall they installed more efficient HVAC systems, and over the holiday break they installed 20 Windspire wind turbines at the San Jos\u00e9 HQ: Adobe estimates that it can get about 2,500 kWh per year per turbine. Comparatively speaking, the U.S. Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}