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Download Our long distance runners

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Download More cleaner energy please

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This is the fourth in our series of education videos from the E-Base team.The video complements npower’s Climate Cops education programme (see the Climate Cops website for further resources).

In this video we look at different sources of electricity and the difference between renewable and non-renewable energy.

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Download Creating clean energy

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I can’t remember a day when I have worked so hard. We were up at 06:30 and after a breakfast of porridge and tinned fruit we started putting the first turbine up.

Things were going pretty well, the rest of team got on with getting the tower and ground anchors ready, and I fitted the blades to the hub and assembled the turbine. The ground anchors that we were using to hold the guy wires for the turbine tower drove in worrying easily, and when we put the turbine up and raised the tower for the first time, they started to pull out. What a nightmare – this turbine needed to stay up through an Antarctic winter, and as it was it probably wouldn’t survive the week.

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Download Chasing the turbines

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