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By DanB, Section Wind Posted on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 10:31:51 PM MST
New Belgium Brewing's efforts to exploit otherpower

Pretty funny - New Belgium Brewing picked our company to use in their latest advertizing campaign.  The 'ad' above is showing up lately in several magazines - were not sure which ones but we do know it's in Utne reader, Mother Jones, and Sierra.  Lots of fun and fairly silly.  If you have gobs of bandwidth and the latest flash player you can try to watch the silly video from here:  http://www.newbelgium.com/ You have to first select your age, then click on 'ride the high band' (followyourfolly.com) and then click on the wind video. Lots of fun anyhow!  I've been busy - we did the workshop for MREA in Wisconsin and then I went back two weeks ago for a small wind conference in Wisconsin and then the MREA fair.  (themrea.org)  I got back two days ago.  Lots of catching up to do.

Shameless Advertising | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial)

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#1) by ghurd on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 04:53:57 PM MST (User Info)

Very Nice! Worth the hunt for the non-computer guys! Won't take long, and the search is neat. Maybe the dogs are bringing wood for new laminated windmill blades? G-

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#2) by tecker on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 05:10:33 PM MST (User Info)

it's about time  beer payed some divdends .

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#3) by wooferhound (tim((NoSpamAt))wooferhound.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 05:20:40 PM MST (User Info) http://wooferhound.com

Looks like I hafta start drinking New Belgium beer now, and lots of it. I sure hope they sell it in this area. W o o f -={(

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#4) by TheCasualTraveler (a.miklos@yahoo.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 05:43:21 PM MST (User Info) http://thecasualtraveler.com/wind.htm

OK, I get it. Belgium beer and Home-brew wind power. I'm a little slow today. Cool site Andy

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#5) by CmeBREW (smke833f@hotmail.com) on Thu Jun 26th, 2008 at 07:34:33 PM MST (User Info)

Cool!   They may be putting something other than hops in their brew!!

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#6) by Nothing40 (phattymo (at) gmail (dot) com) on Fri Jun 27th, 2008 at 03:00:46 AM MST (User Info) http://www.users.qwest.net/~ptaylor/

Cool!! The best part,I see some Tubes in there! ;D

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#7) by KurtJ (kurt) on Fri Jun 27th, 2008 at 05:50:45 AM MST (User Info) kurtj

Love the little "proto type" wonder what the cut in speed is? ;O) The biggest untapped source of energy...Congress, If we could harness all the hot air and BS they produce we would no longer be dependant on foreign oil!

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#8) by Bruce S (bruce(dot)stahl <at>gmail (dot)(com)) on Fri Jun 27th, 2008 at 07:03:41 AM MST (User Info)

NOW I now what to do with all those left over connectix sets the boys left :) New Belgium beer. Good stuff, easy to find at Whole Foods market. Soooo do you guys get paid in beer instead of ad stocks? Have fun with it!! Bruce S

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#9) by ElSenator on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 01:20:04 AM MST (User Info)

I love those guys! Good products, and good people. Most of them bike to work, also. Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't they almost 100% off grid?

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#10) by TomW on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 08:01:29 AM MST (User Info)

El; Yeah, DanB, George and Rich all live beyond the reach of power lines. Not sure how they get to "work" but Rich lives pretty close to Dan and George lives over a mountain in another valley and I just bet he drives. Since "work" is at Dans place I think Dan just walks out to the shop. I suspect Rich just puts on his rocket belt and does a big hop over to Dans ;=>. As far as the brewery crew, no idea since I don't know them. Good folks, no doubt. Tom "Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."--Mark Twain [ Parent ]

Re: Shameless Advertising (3.00 / 0) (#11) by elvin1949 (elvin1949@yahoo.com) on Mon Jun 30th, 2008 at 07:17:49 PM MST (User Info)

Tom  If memory serves me.i think they are on grid but pay extra to buy wind power. later Elvin [ Parent ]

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