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It’s an easy mistake to make. Once you get on the green smoothie train, you tend to ride it all the way to happy town. I don’t really know what that means. The point is, often once people get into the GS, they tend to really get into the GS. It can be easy to forget that not everyone is so keen on the taste of pulverized kale and celery right out of the starting gate. It is not a transition food.

There are exceptions. On a recent episode of Oprah, Dr. Memet Oz presented Ms. Winfrey with a bright green concoction that she was pleased to receive. Her response upon tasting, “It’s like a glass of fresh!”

Our green smoothie episode garnered us our first video response. Our friends Steelee and Jessica gave our first smoothie a try, and were less than enthused about it. Fair enough, I wasn’t so jazzed at my first either. In time the body adjusts to the taste of more punchy, alkaline drinks, but it’s a good idea to start with a more accessible smoothie. So, if you’re up for giving it a shot, toss together the recipe below. As you’ll see, it’s so good even a child will like it!

Green Smoothie 2.0:
Serves 1-2

1 ripe banana
1 Cup mango, chopped
1-2 Cups fresh spinach
Water as necessary
2 ice cubes
1 Tbspn flax oil, optional

Blend as long as necessary. Make it as smooth as possible. Enjoy.

The primary difference? More fruit, less (and less bitter) greens. Give it a shot… and send us your video comments!

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In this podcast Darren Thomas, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage at Dell and Claude Lorenson, senior manager in the storage solution division at Microsoft, talk iSCSI and virtualization. Also hear about a data integrity initiative by Oracle, Seagate, Emulex, and LSI. SNWSpotlight is brought to you by LSI.

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Guests:
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Jason Coleman, winelog.net
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The Cleantech Forum is right around the corner, February 19-22, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Cleantech Forum brings together more than 600 top investors, companies and thought-leaders for two days of unparalleled networking and cutting edge exchange. Register here.

Transcript:

Host: Rio Pesino - PodTech
Guest: Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower

Rio Pesino - PodTech
This is Rio Pesino for Podtech.net, I am here with Steve Taber who is the Chairman and CEO of Nordic Windpower, welcome to the Podcast.

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Thank you Rio very much, it’s a great pleasure.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Steve, first question, go and tell our listeners what your company is, and what do they do, what’s your company all about?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
We are a wind-turbine manufacturing company, we manufacture turbines based on a very innovative Swedish technology, and what is innovative about this technology is that the equipment is simple and reliable and low in cost. If you think of our competitors as being Ferraris we are a Volvo. We may not be the sexiest machine, but we are absolutely predictable and reliable. We give years and years of trouble free operation with minimum maintenance and low cost.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, what makes your product different than your competitors?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
The main design which our competitors have followed is a rigid massive design, which is very heavy. It’s over engineered, it’s very heavy and it responds rigidly to the wind. Our design is designed to be flexible, so that it flexes with the wind. So, eccentric forces from turbulence are dissipated harmlessly, so that the turbine itself can be operated in a very low stress environment. That saves us weight, it saves us failures, maintenance problems and ultimately gives us a bottom line cost that is anywhere from 10% to 30%.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, I noticed your Windpower system has two blades as opposed to three?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Well, two blades have a number of advantages. It saves weight; it makes the design much more elegant in its ability to respond flexibly and passively to the wind. Like I say, the three-bladed turbine is a rigid design, it’s kind of like an ocean liner, the two-bladed design is kind of like a sail boat. It goes with the wind rather than fighting against the wind.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
What’s your existing customer base?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
The existing customer base right now is entirely in Sweden and of Swedish utilities. What we’re doing with this company is introducing the technology to the United States and here our customers will be the established Wind power developers in utilities and the community energy movement. There’s a great deal of growth right now in that sector of the industry in the United States. Communities, farmers, school districts, small towns, Swedish districts and things like that, they’re all trying to put or many of them are trying to put up a few turbines, one, two or three turbines where they can use it as a revenue source to help their basic bottom line.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now, what are the some of the challenges you guys are facing bring your product here to the United States, if any?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Well, the first challenge and the challenge which brings me here today to the Cleantech Forum is the challenge of having enough money. We don’t personally have enough money to fund this, we need about $10 million on our Balance Sheet in order to get our company up and running and sustain our growth curve, so that’s challenge number one. We are confident, we will solve that challenge because right now renewable energy is such a high growth industry that there’re a lot of real smart investors that are trying to get in it, so I’m confident we’ll get over that.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Now in regards to Cleantech, what are your thoughts on this event overall?

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
I am hugely impressed; this is a Cracker Jack organization. I mean at this organization, one of the very smart things they do is that they invite all their investors but they screen the entrepreneurs very carefully so there’s only a handful of companies here in comparison to several hundred investors. So, that I think makes for an environment in which the investors don’t feel beleaguered and in which the companies that do, that are fortunate enough to be selected to come, can have a courteous reception from anybody I’ve talked to. I really admire this organization, my hat is off to Nick and Loren and everybody to put this together.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Steve, I appreciate the Podcast, thanks a lot for the time, and goodbye.

Steve Taber - Nordic Windpower
Thank you; it’s been a great pleasure.

Rio Pesino - PodTech
Alright.

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