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Yo yo yo. Check out the following links for information on many things regarding windmills - benefits, cost, problems, etc.

http://www.dulley.com/docs/f485.htm different kinds of windmills

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=103863 This is a good article on the windmill problem.

http://www.helium.com/items/623236-the-benefits-and-costs-of-having-your-own-windmill Benefits and cost of windmill use

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-02-23-windmills-midwest_x.htm windmill use in midwest

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226079,00.html PA windmills power Statue of Liberty

http://www.jackgreen.com.au/wind/wind-energy-advantages.php Advantages and disadvantages of the use of wind energy

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/wind-turbines-and-windmills-in-europe.html This is Europe's uses of windmills. Just thought we'd like a view at other countries and windmill uses.

http://wearecentralpa.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1221 Some complaints regarding the issue of the noise made by windmills, and how people are dealing with it.

So, any day we can all get together to film this movie? I'm free any day. ^^ - Thom

Hah. I be far away from all yous. We should meet at Tony's after school someday and take it from there. Maybe...a Wednesday? Lauren Thom and I can do that. Melissa and Tiyanna: if you can let us know. -Christa

This is a good Youtube vid I found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cocobdp7K-g

Thom: You think that video is good? HOW ABOUT THIS!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v48LiLsJSTg&feature=related

-Christa. Fear the vid.

**Now there's some work here. Please keep my notes. That's how I check what you are doing. ~Shaw 4.14.09**

Alright, guys. I can't make it to Tony's this Wednesday. We've got a rehearsal scheduled with the Music Man. The way I see things, there's two options: 1) Reschedule for another day or 2) Do the meeting without me. If we stick with the date, my idea for the movie is that it's like a newscast and we're doing a story on the windmills. (It's just a thought.) Melissa, could you or Christa fill me in on what we've decided? Thanks a lot and sorry I can't be there. ~ Thom

Thom: YOU LIED THEN. You said ANY day. I am LOLing at you for lying. But also I am LOLing at myself now cuz I remembered I have to go to the senior project meeting on Wednesday. And something weird involving the pastor of my church coming over...maybe that was Tueday though...arg! Well, either way, I can't stay after Wednesday now. But newscast idea sounds fine to me too. -Christa

Thom: If we do newscast, you wanna still interview random people? Anyone. Ask em what they'd think about windmill use. -Christa!!

Sounds like a plan. Melissa, Lauren, Tiyanna? Your thoughts? hey its melissa this thing hasnt been letting me add stuff from home n ive been trying for days. i kno of ome ppl who have windmills but i dont kno them personally so maybe we could somehow ask them questions abt them or so we can show a video of a real life windmill. christa maybe if ur going to tonys today we can talk abt wat to do in art club if u wanna go

i found some videos- melissa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4HQv-UyUo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu3EyzOYpGY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwGcGa3Vf0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD0v9_zV2uk

http://ftexploring.com/energy/wind-enrgy.html http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2009/01/18/home-wind-turbine-prove-to-be-less-efficient/ http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/04/floating-wind-turbines/ http://www.greenoptimistic.com/2009/01/28/very-efficient-vertical-wind-turbine-once-thought-impossible-to-build/

I can't stay after at all this week. -Christa

i cant this week ither.. what days can u guys next week??? melissa nice videos... Lauren

OK, NEXT wednesday? Haw. Unless stupid stuff changes. GAH. -Christa

Cheeeebus. 0:D We needs to work on that storyboard! We're gonna do it in outline form cuz Thom says that drawing and pretty pictures make him want to destroy people in the face. Go Thom. MELISSA! Who are these people you know with windmills? Are they near your house? We need to film some, and yeah maybe ask them some questions bout windmill stuff. -Christa

ew an outline? god toms boring.... umm I dont know them I just know OF them. They live outside of Lehigh Valley.... i think Hamilton blv but im bad abt knowing streets its near haafville or wherever Rachel Bachman used to live. ummm I guess I can do next Wednesday but not Thursday cuz its my birthday. Id raher not do an outlibe so maybe 1 ofu can tell me what the story board will have n ill make pictures...umm it really doesnt matter to me as long as it gets done -Melissa

http://www.lildobe.net/gallery2/v/Misc/Green_Mountan_Energy_Windmill_Farm_Eastern_PA/ http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_ch8g45 these are about windmill farms in Pennsylvania http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyehD1j0kUU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3FZtmlHwcA these are just windmill videos

Cha dude, I already started making an outline but whomever wants to draw pictures can go ahead and be cool like that. I made some pictures of different windmill types. :) Other than that the outline just talks about stuff that we will be discussing like windmill problems and stuff. -Christa

Cheebus 0:D

To whomever it may concern: We don't necessarily have to interview people that have windmills. It could be anyone, as long as they have an opinion about windmills. Maybe some people are just stupid and don't even know about windmills. :P -Christa once more (dang, be quiet Christa!)

Shaw: when we make an outline, does it have to be exactly what we plan to say or just what topics we plan to cover? Cuz so far it just says what we will be discussing/doing/filming...or do we have to think of it all now and write that down?

YOU'RE boring, Melissa! :P Eh, I knew I was boring, anyway. :o IDEA! Couldn't we just type this, then draw the pretty pictures on the side?

Aww. Thom, don't be so down on yerselffff. Sure, typing is all fun n stuff. I'll draw purty pictures cuz I already have them here. PWN. -Christa where would we interveiw people??? and where??? Lauren

Who here has a video recorder? I do but I know certainly that my mom won't let anyone borrow it... Or, if you have a digital camera that does it. Lauren, if you have one just ask someone what they think about windmill use for energy - ask your mom, dad, sister, schmitty for all I care haha. Just ask them and film it...-Christa

I will talk to my parents this weekend... and i can see what i can do.. i dont have a camera mine brokee.. Lauren

I have a video camera but I have no clue how to work it cuz well my parents bought it for no reason n never used it. Melissa

I have a digital camera... but I doubt I can use it next week. Parents are going to the Kentucky Derby and they want the camera. Sounds like we have access to at least ONE camera. ~ Thom

Greetings from the Batcave, my homedawgs. So I have a digital camera that records videos, plus an actual video recorder. Thom, were you able to type the thingy? And so yeah - I can only stay after on certain days and even then it's only for an hour. I'm staying after this Wednesday and Friday, but still, only an hour. I'll talk about stuff with my mom more later. (By that, I man arrange to get like an entire day of projecting.) And Melissa: Your parents never cease to make me laugh. -Christa

Oh, and at this point I'm thinking I'm just going to film my parents, ask the what they think about windmills as energy use and what they think they'll do to the environment, and put that clip on a flash drive. Then we'll just have fun with iMovie or Windows Movie Maker or something. -Christa 
 * This is really progressing. i will admit, I was nervous. Keep up the good work. Search the area (yellowpages.com or google them) to see if there are people in the area that are using wind power. it could be the best interview you do. let me know if you need help. Shaw 4.27.09

When are we doing the interview??? Lauren

What wednesday are we doing it after school??? Lauren

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Ok, so I can't use the video camera after all. My parents freaked out cuz "it's theirs, and it's expensive, I don't trust you with it!" the usual lame parent excuses. Well excuse me, hah...Jordan gets to use it when HE wants... But I have my digital so that will have to do. Melissa, if you can bring your video camera that would be cool... gotta find a day to film stuff still, I know. The most I have on Wednesday and Friday is an hour. I don't see how it would help if anyone came over here cuz we live in the middle of nowhere, there are no people around here, and none of them use windmills so yeah...ROAD TRIP! :) -Christa**

Shaw - might need help on ideas to interview. I defnitely want to interview people who actually use wind energy but Mom won't drive me anywhere so I can interview people. Melissa Lauren Tom - We should all go to someone's house (someone who has more easy-going cool parents, lol) and make road trips from there or something... Tiyanna: It would be nice to hear from you... Tom - YOU DIDN'T TYPE THE OUTLINE CUZ YOU FORGOT IT >:O And you would've slapped me if it was me who forgot it instead of you...:P -Christa

Christa- D: I wouldn't have SLAPPED you.... a gentle love tap to the face? Everyone- I wanna say that we could do this whole "meet up at someone's house" deal, but my parents don't know about it yet. (95% chance they'll say yes, though. They know you guys AND it's for school.) Would this be a once-and-done thing or would we be making multiple stops en mi casa? ~Thom

ok Tom I dont think you know what a love tap is... And well our outline isnt good. Shaw talked to me abt it and its just notes and doesnt tell what were really doing in our movie. A Storyboard is in cronological order of what will be in the movie not just regurgitated facts and it looked like it just had types of old style widmills not really how they work or how efficient or how probable it would be for everyone to have one and how practical or inpractical they are. Oh and we can't just ask our parents if we can we should find somebody who has a windmill or at least is smart and respectable If we ask any old person they might have no idea what theyre talking abt. Tiya said she cant get on here from home and it puts all her stuff in the history section.

When are we doing the video??? and where??? Lauren

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Tom- I think I'ma randomly appear at your house and scare your mom. Like...one of these days. Whenever. Owned. And yeah - we don't KNOW what we're doing for the movie, do we? Hard to make an outline when you're completely clueless... And Tom - Yes, you definitely would've slapped me. Or at least, threatened to slap me. =P DEATH TO SCIENCE PSSAS. -Christa

http://www.awea.org/faq/wwt_economy.h tml#What%20does%20the%20U.S.%20wind%20industry%20contribute%20to%20the%20economy I found this- Tiyanna

Tom and I are having a party at his house for this thingy =D -Christa

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When are we going to begin the movie??? Whoever wrote that: Christa and I started interviewing today. (We only got one interview on film, so we're only JUST starting.) ~ Thom

who did you talk to and when? We still need a script and stuff cuz improvising stuff with the camera in it would ummm suck but yeah we just need a main idea of what were saying about windmill cuz the whole thing isnt an interview. we still need a windmill if someone can take us all to those people with windmills we could ask if they would let us film their windmills or answer questions. This is due next friday so we need to get a huge idea n do it n we need to tell eachother what were doing in class cuz Tiyanna n I have no idea what all of you are up to. Tiyanna and I found several windfarms that are actualy nearby.

Mahony City, PA 17948 570-773-1450 Perkiomenville, PA 18074 610-754-1115 Elverson, PA, 19520 610-286-4975 - Melissa
 * Locust Ridge,266 Brandonville (ew wtf?) Road
 * Second Wind Farm, 941 Perkiomenville Rd
 * Wind Wind Farm 493 N Manor Road,

w00t. Awesomeness. Now someone's just gotta get down there. We went to Eliza's house and asked her windmill questions. And Brandonville...that's hilariously weird...-Christa

Melissa, we just improvised questions with Eliza. We may add or remove questions as we interview other people. (Don't want everyone answering the same things, do we?) I think I'm the only one with a license in the group. I can try finding these places via Mapquest. -Thom

Ok, so we mapquested the addresses. One is like an hour and 20 minutes away, one was 42 minutes away, and one was 58. I guess if we have to go to one it should obviously be the 42 minute one, which is Second Wind Farm in Perkiomenville. -Christa

Any ideas what else we could do for this? I wasn't thinking a 10-20 minute interview-a-thon.... but, we also can't have a 5 minute break of windmills spinning. We need some kind of medium. Between interviews, should we have us telling facts about windmills? ~ Thom

Sorry i was not in class today. i will help u out tomorrow on what u need help... Do we need anything else??? Lauren **There has been some improvement on things. Let's chat in class about how this is progressing. Shaw 5.01.09

I think I said this before sometime but theres also a windmill in the DaVinci Center on Cedar Crest. We could just go there and stand near the windmill and give facts about it like how tall it is and he facts we have on windmills in general and then go to the windmill farm to show them in their "natural habitat"...yeah lame pun w/e. I'll rephrase what I juts said lol. We can start out standing under the DaVinci place windmill giving facts about their efficiency and such and then break it up with our interviews and then start talking about windmill farms and their pro n cons and stuff. Like my idea? I think we need a semi-script of some kind so we know what to say about windmills and stuff. and we need to know whos gonna do what parts. Like who is doing interviews and who is taping? and did u use my camera? I was hoping to be on camera at least a lil bit n talk abt the windmills. Do we still need more information? - Melissa!!!! psstt my birthday was yesterday and i HAD to remind u cuz im still happy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNudnI5tzf8

Ok, so I dunno. DaVinci Center sounds good. We filmed Eliza but the videos on my camera refuse to be uploaded so death to digital cameras, we're gonna use one of these random video recorders. And go ahead and start on a script if you want, Thom and I have been improvising so far so we don't really need one but if you want one then go ahead. Last time, I taped and Thom interviewed but it'll rotate or something. I dunno how I'm going to get out there though...I hate living in the middle of nowhere. -Christa

i dont kno how i would get there ither... i live in the middle of kno where i have the same problem as christa... its hard for me when my parents work late also. Lauren

Melissa, since you and I live the closest, wanna go down there? If we get on the bypass it should be about...10ish minutes. -Thom**

Yeah, I'm totally like..40 minutes away from Dorney. I'd ask Nick to drive me down but a. I dunno when that would be and b. He'd probably get us hopelessly lost. Tiyanna, can you get down there at all?-Christa

That sounds fine Tom. How bout this weekend...ill need help with the script tho cuz itd be kinda weird to imporvise facts abt windmills without knowing what to say

Sounds fine. Melissa, get a few facts together and I'll try getting a couple myself. We'll try the DaVinci place tomorrow. (Parents are getting home around supper time, so I'll leave em a note if we go in the afternoon.) You've got my number right? It's 682-6768. There, now ya got it. Just give me a call when you'd like to head over. \

sorry i couldnt get on mty computer is having issues starting and it takes forever just to get on. umm well its raining today so that ruins it. Tom or someone call the windfarm and try to see if we could go there. - melissa

Yo yo. i'm at Nick's. Passed the Davinci center today but didn't get to it cuz we were doing other stuff that day. Did you guys go yet? This thing is due Friday...-Christa

I tried calling Tom this weekend AND IT DIDNT GO THROUGH!!!! THIS IS DUE IN LIKE 3 DAYS!!!! SKIP SOMETHING N GET TO WORK TOM. Or maybe someone else can go? i know where christa lives so maybe I could pick her up and take her there. -Melissa

I am doing something like every day this week. If my mom weren't a control Nazi it might be possible. She thinks this project is stupid and isn't willing to help at all.-Christa

We've got an interview.... it's just not functioning. Calm down for a second and we'll figure it out. - - We're doing the opening part at my house tonight, right? MAYBE we can try running out to the DaVinci place afterwards. (We all wanna get this done, Melissa. We're trying.) ~ Thom

Melissa - just called the number. They have ONE wind mill. They aren't letting us film it. So the only other options are those places that are like an hour or more away, ROAD TRIP! :D - Christa


 * O Hanych showed me an awesome way to film without a video camera! I have a Macbook and said comp can record stuff via the webcam. (It gets a good picture.) So, yeah. That'll be effective to a degree. ~ Thom

melissa or tiyanna try to get number to windmills farm we acna do an interview over the phone... us 3 have been trying all 3 pd... and we wuld have ot do it over the phone bc they are really far away.. Lauren

what other places can we call to seee if we can flim a windmill and interview them??? in class thom christa and i went to yellow pages and went to map quest we could not find nothing. Lauren

When are we doing the interview for our project somestimes after school??? Thom and Melissa did u get to go to the DaVanci center today??? How did u guys do on starting out the video??? and when are we going to redue that interview with eliza for the one we could not get off of christa camera...??? And when are we calling the other numbers??? Lauren

ok we can redo the thing with Eliza and anyone else tomorrow. call me and remind me to bring the camera tomorrow. my # is 610-682-1760. Thom and I got the opening scene I was gonna get Tiyanna to tape our researching windmills so we could "find out" about them b4 we go to the actual windmill. but she isnt here and I forgot the camera. Unfortunately there aren't any more wind farms that arent an hour or more away so I guess we can't get an interview with them but every body has opinions on wind energy so we can just ask random people. well not random random but smart people that we know lol. you guys will have to call the other numbers but its too early at 7:30 in the morning for most places to be open except gas stations and walmart. sorry. Hey tom think we should redo our power outage? - Melissa

-- I have National Honor Society tonight. I kinda have to be at that. I think it went alright, our power outage. We could always do a phone interview. OR we could interview the WM. lol But, yeah I can't film tonight. My 4-5 rehearsal tonight/NHS induction kinda comes into conflict with that. Wanna try RIGHT after school for an hour? Christa just volunteered to redo the interview on Wed. Melissa, wanna stay after with us? We'll just probably go about town and interview at random. >:D ~ Thom

Tiyanna - Seriously. You won't do anything cuz a. You "don't understand this English language" b. You're not good at talking on the phone and c. You don't want to do something cuz you think Melissa is "ordering" you? That's cuz you have to do stuff. And...YOU LIVE IN AMERICA. -___- It's not like anyone else likes talking on the phone. We'z DOING IT. ITS NOT THAT HARD TO TALK ON THE PHONE.. U HAVE DONE NOTHING THIS WHOLE PROJECT!!! AND WE ARE ALL GETTING MAD!!!! SINCERELY, THE GROUP!!!!!!! <3 (So in other words - due in three days. We're struggling. Help would be nice. =D)

We're working on getting to the DaVinci center TOMORROW. (It's tomorrow or nothing. Anyone who's coming, come on.) -Thom

Ha, oy. 0____0 Ok. I'm staying after tomorrow so Thom and I are gonna get out to the DaVinci center. Mr. Babb said he is up for an interview too, thought that would be cool since he is all Eco Action-y and science-y and cool like that. So Thom Melissa and I will do that too. -Christa

YAY we got some flimig done!!! melissa i saw u at thoms house that was funny...!!!! lol!!! we are making proegess YAYYY!!!! Lauren

Go, us! :D So, now we just interview Babb and run over to the DaVinci and we'll be alright. Oh, yeah... and re-do our Eliza interview.~ Thom

ok tiyanna and i did some good editing. we need you guys to finish it for us though. cya!!!! - Melissa n Tiyana

One more interview, guys. We're as good as done.~ Thom+Christa