So it's incredibly bad blog form to just repost what some other, better known (and maybe just better, period) blogger posted the other day ...

.. But I'll do it anyway.

37Signals' SvN had a great post about Shawn Frayne, who used the inspiration of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse to invent a completely novel way of generating electricity from wind power. His method completely side-steps the issues of shrinking down wind turbines to a small scale (size of your arm, say), and does it with a fluttering band of mylar.

It's this kind of small money big thinking that we need more of. Ernest Rutherford, who said "we don't have the money, so we'll just have to think," would approve.