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Using wind power for energy is a clean and eco-friendly way to get power to your home. The wind is fairly plentiful and is a renewable resource and installing a wind turbine to power your home can reduce your electric bill by up to 95%. Not only is wind power clean in itself, it helps to reduce greenhouse gases because every kilowatt of electricity produced through wind power is a kilowatt of electricity that isn’t produced through fossil fuels.

You can use wind power for individual residences, or it can also be applied to towns, cities and even countries. When used on a large scale, wind farms that consist of many wind turbines spread out over flat open areas are connected to an electrical grid and can produce energy for many homes. In fact, although only 1% of the world uses when power, in Denmark 19% of the electricity is powered by wind turbines.

These wind power fields can be rather small having only a couple of turbines or can be gigantic having over 900 turbines. The towers can range in height, but are usually at least 80 feet tall so that the blades can get up above any interference from trees and structures on the ground. The largest turbine tower is located in Hawaii and stands 20 stories tall with gigantic blades which are as big as a football field.

The wind turbine itself is a pole or hollow metal tower with three large blades at the top. The wind turns the blades which in turn creates electricity. These turbines have to be pretty tall and they aren’t really that pleasing to look at so if you want one for your home, you need to make sure that you live far from neighbors and have enough land to place the turbine in a place where it won’t be a nuisance. Although they are relatively quiet, making about as much noise as a washing machine, the constant spinning of the blades in the subtle noise can be a bit unnerving.

In order to consider using wind power for your home, you obviously need to live in an area that has wind year-round. In the US, this includes about 17 million homes according to one of the latest census. You need to have about 9 mph average wind speed to consider a wind turbine. Believe it or not you can buy a wind maps to see if your home is in a spot that would be suitable.

Typically what one does is have both the utility company and the wind turbine hooked up to the house so that when there is no wind, the house can be powered by the utility company. When it is very windy and the turbine is producing more electricity than the house needs, the excess is sold back to the utility company. Unlike with a the solar power system, there are no batteries and therefore no method to store the excess electricity for later use.

The game of football is played by almost all the nations and it enjoys a high ration on the popularity charts. There are millions of fans across the world, who have a craze about the game. This is popularly played across schools and colleges in different countries and in clubs at the professional level of the game.

Football World Cup

Several countries of the world play the game of football. This is evident from the number of participating nations in the World Cup tournament that is the biggest competition of professional football of the world. It is held after every four year in different countries that is decided on several basis of selection process by the FIFA of federation for international football association.

Among some of the successful and very popular football playing nations, the names of England, Ireland, Italy, France, Portugal, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil among several others make a strong presence with famous players of international football.

Club Football

Professional clubs are there in many countries of the world. Popular among these countries are Italy and England among several others as well. There are clubs that are extremely popular both in their fan following and high performance levels in the matches that they play.

Clubs like Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, AC Milan, Barcelona and Real Madrid are extremely popular with their power packed performances as well as the presence of top level international players who enjoy a huge fan following all over the world.

Football Kits

The football uniform of every country or even the clubs enjoys a high popularity among their fans. These clubs and national football teams are extremely popular among their fans who endorse every bit of the look and appeal of their favorite clubs and players.

There are specially made football kits available through various sources like online websites of the teams and clubs or even sportswear retail stores. This is done with the idea of reaching out to their individual groups of fans and cheerleaders in a packed stadium.

There are football fans that like to dress up in the same way as their favorite teams and players. In addition, this is a great way for them to sport the same look of their choice while they sit at the stands and cheer for the teams on the ground.

Custom made Football Kits

This step forward makes the football fan feel closer to his team and even to his favorite player. There are football kits that are specially made for you if you wish to buy one. This allows you dress up with the same jersey and other gear that your favorite player is about to play with.

What is even more is that you can have your own name printed on the jersey just like another player of the team. This makes you like one of the team members with your own kit and gear.

There are special outlets where custom football kits will be available. You can check them out and be there for your team and player on date of the next match

1966 was a the greatest year for English football, after being selected to host the World Cup Finals and England proceeded to win the competition for the first and only time by beating West Germany 4-2 in the Final in front of 100,000 fans at Wembley Stadium.

The World Cup Final was a glorious occasion marked by a hat-trick scored by Geoff Hurst, who scored two of his goals in extra time to seal England’s victory.

English fans are passionate about football and their national team and long for the day when the team will lift the World Cup again, there have been eleven World Cups since England’s famous victory in 1966, and by the time of the next World Cup Finals in Brazil in 2014, it will have been 48 years since England won the trophy.

The 1970 World Cup saw England attempt to defend their trophy in Mexico, but lost in the Quarter Final stage in a re-match of the 1966 Final with West Germany, who this time overcame a 2-0 England lead to win 3-2 after extra time and bring an end to England’s reign as World Champions.

England failed to qualify for the 1974 finals, after being drawn with Poland and Wales in a qualifying group of three teams. England’s only victory was a 1-0 away win over Wales, but home draws and a 2-0 defeat by Poland sealed their fate, as Poland qualified for the World Cup Finals in West Germany, as the group winners.

Qualification for the 1978 finals again ended in disappointment, as England were grouped with Italy, Finland and Luxembourg, and despite only losing one qualifying game and finishing the group on level points, Italy qualified as group winners with a superior goal difference.

In 1982 the World Cup Finals were held in Spain and England now under the management of Ron Greenwood qualified for the finals for the first time since 1970. The competition was organised into two group stages, with England beating France, Czechoslovakia and Kuwait to top the group and qualify for the next group stage which saw them play Germany and Spain, in which England drew 0-0 with both teams, but as Germany beat Spain 2-1 and top the group which qualified them for the semi finals and England were eliminated, ironically having not lost a single game in the Finals.

The 1986 finals will always be remembered by England fans for one of the worlds’ greatest players and one of the most talked about goals in World Cup history. England had started the group stage poorly as they lost 1-0 to Portugal and were then held to a 0-0 draw by Morocco, however they secured their passage to the next stage with a 3-0 victory over Poland, thanks to a first-half hat-trick from Gary Lineker.

As the competition entered the knock-out stages, England were drawn against Paraguay, and an impressive 3-0 victory set up a quarter final tie with Argentina, an entertaining game turned to controversy after 51 minutes when in an aerial challenge for the ball with England goalkeeper Peter Shilton, Diego Maradona actually punched the ball into the goal to give Argentina a 1-0 lead. Amazingly the goal was given, Maradona later claiming goal was thanks to ‘the hand of God’

Three minutes later Maradona scored a brilliant goal as he ran with the ball from his own half, beating several England players and scoring to give Argentina a 2-0 lead. Gary Lineker scored a consolation goal to make the score 2-1 but Argentina held on for victory and then went onto win the competition.

Italy hosted the 1990 World Cup Finals, which was yet again to end in disappointment for England, who were grouped with the Republic of Ireland, Holland and Egypt, amazingly all the games were drawn apart from England’s 1-0 victory over Egypt which saw them top the group and progress to the next round England beat Belgium 1-0 after extra time and progressed to the quarter-finals were England faced Cameroon winning 3-2 after extra-time after Gary Lineker scored two penalties in the match.

The 1990 World Cup Semi-Final was between England and now arch rivals West Germany, after a 1-1 draw, the game was famously decided on penalties which Germany won 4-3. In the 3rd place play-off game England lost 2-1 to Italy to finish 4th, their highest placing since 1966.

In 1994 England failed to qualify for the finals in the USA, and it was 1998 that saw them reach the finals held in France, hope were high after reaching the semi-finals of Euro ’96 and winning their qualifying group. A 2-1 defeat to Romania meant second place in the group stage and a tough match against Argentina in the first knock-out stage. Penalties proved to be England’s nemesis again after the match finished 2-2, England lost 4-3 on penalties and were on their way home once more.

The 2002 competition took place in Korea and Japan and the so called ‘group of death’ with rivals Argentina, Sweden and Nigeria, England finished second in the group, but did beat Argentina 1-0 to avenge the penalty defeat in 1998. After beating Denmark 3-0 in the next round a quarter-final against Brazil resulted in a disappointing 2-1 defeat and more World Cup woes.

2006 saw England lose out on penalties yet again, this time to Portugal after a 0-0 draw in the quarter finals, by three penalties to one scored by England.

Hopes were again high for the 2010 Cup in South Africa after a good qualifying campaign, but a poor showing and a narrow 1-0 victory over Slovenia, saw them progress from the group stage, only to be beaten 4-1 by Germany in the next round, no penalties were required this time.

The long wait for England’s World Cup success continues, but each competition brings new hope for all the long suffering English fans.