But most days, I make enough roof top PV solar power at home to avoid buying coal-based utility power.
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Or doubling the amount of energy produced from renewable sources, such as expensive, roof-top solar panels.
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Expect that excitement to increase when the roof-top cupola opens this summer for private dining.
To make this possible, Walgreens will equip the new store with more than 800 roof-top solar panels, two wind turbines, geothermal wells , LED lighting and energy-efficient building materials.
The firm claims that up to 450 jobs could be created in transforming Canting Basin into a "spectacular floating community" with "shops, offices, houses, restaurants, a marina and a roof-top concert arena".
On Tuesday at the inauguration, members of the U.S. Secret Service's elite countersniper unit will be out in force, taking roof-top positions along Pennsylvania Avenue and elsewhere as the presidential motorcade glides past throngs of people for the swearing in of Barack Obama.
Four cranes lifted the roof into place on top of the structure's frame.
We went and got that clear corrugated stuff and put it across the top for a roof.
Wind rolled a trailer home onto its top and a roof blew off a barn, Washington County undersheriff Jon Stivers said.
They were rescued after clinging on to the top of their roof.
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"I recently visited the ancient Todaiji temple in Nara and noticed an extra roof tile set on its top, " recalls the Toshiba president.
They understand what it takes to break wires, what it takes to kick out taillights or what it takes to bang on the top of the roof.
He created an "upside down" three-story house with a garden on the roof, the main living space on the top floor and bedrooms and a studio for Mr. Turner's practice below.
Its roof ripped off, passengers can be seen standing on the top deck, waiting to get off.
Another hypothetical scenario might have the roof, hood and trunk lid made of two layers: solar cells on top, spray-on batteries on the bottom.
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To that end, the roof of the house slants upward over the main living and dining area, giving the top of the house the same trajectory as a piano lid.
Close to the western end of Margaret Bridge, find the steep, cobbled Gul Baba Street which winds upward from Leo Frankel Street, then take a sharp left at the top, and look for the new moon symbol on a small, domed roof.
The top of the bus over the driver's seat was caved in, and part of the roof was ripped open.
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But evidence of a rollover seemed abundantly clear: The top of the bus over the driver's seat was caved in, and part of the roof was ripped open.
Members of Cambridge University Officers' Training Corps (CUOTC) have agreed to build a platform representing the roof of the 70ft (21m)-high Senate House, and a vehicle will be hoisted to the top.
From the top of the tower you look down on to a web of canals, on to the little roof terraces that the people of the city are so fond of cultivating, and out across the flat landscape towards distant wind farms.
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