Share and Voice: Greener Dock Systems

When I make my back home for the summer I work for a guy who owns PowerBlock, Worlds Best Dumbbells (they are incredibly awesome and hes a genius for inventing them). I have been working side by side with him since the summer of 2005. Back home, in Alexandria, there is a chain of three major lakes so dock systems are a hot buy for those having a lake home. A couple years ago my boss, Carl, his son, and I build a prototype DDD (double decker dock) and it turned out in great form. Check out the pictures. The two different ones you see we completed. This upcoming summer we are planning to start constructing a new prototype DDD that is more safe to the environment (aluminum is used to build the DDD and unfortunately there is not a more durable, lightweight, luminous looking metal available to use), but plans are to use less aluminum by building the floor out of a different product, and to acquire environmentally safe floating tanks that help transport the DDD across the water, and the main goal is to install a wind turbine to DDD. It's all a work in progress and if things go as planned it will allow people on lake homes to use wind power to provide some clean power to their homes. Of course it won't be a large enough turbine to power the whole house but its always good to start little and then think big.

So if you've ever around Alexandria,MN on Lake Carlos or Darling you may see one or two of these systems.