Ambi: dog panting sit down, lay down jet all the way down jet..
While Jet, the boxer, settles down near his feet, Chris Beaudoin (Bode-Weah)?
Ambi: spinning the turbine (faint)
? spins the seven-foot tall plastic wind turbine he?s mounted on the roof of his garage near Twin Peaks in San Francisco.
BEAUDOIN Is that fun? Yeah! Sometimes I come down to see if it?s still working!
Beaudoin?s wind turbine looks nothing like those big whirling propeller blades you see on Altamont Pass by 580. Instead, it?s a narrow, gray cylinder, made of two vertical plastic strips, twisted around each other like a DNA helix.
Beaudoin, who works as a flight attendant, says that to him, the turbine looks like sculpture - which is a good thing, because at about 18 thousand dollars, this rig will not come cheap. But then, Beaudion?s always been a wind guy?
BEAUDOIN I?ve always enjoyed wind from...
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