Wayne Bussiness Owner Has Wind Turbine Installed in Latest Eco-Friendly Initiative

Robert Burke is at it again.

The environmentally conscious Wayne business owner had a wind turbine added to his Wayne Auto Spa business property Monday in his latest eco-friendly initiative.

The way the wind turbine, who’s plan wasn’t initially approved by the township of Wayne, will work is simple.

When the wind blows enough for the rotor on top of the wind turbine to spin, the spinning will turn the turbine and create electricity. That electricity will then get fed back into the businesses meter and into Burke’s Wayne Auto Spa business. Therefore, the 50-foot structure will preserve natural resources, minimize pollution and will reduce the strain on a very centralized power grid.

“This is a device that not only generates electricity without consuming resources or generating pollution, but it also gets the conversation started and keeps it going about … renewable energy, about building community, about how we can all take steps small and large collectively [to] improve all of those fronts,” 50-year-old Burke said.

The wind turbine comes as Burke’s lasted eco-friendly installment, with Burke’s business already having 60 solar panels that generate clean renewable energy from the sun and a farm whose produce is used to feed Eva’s Village, just to list a few.

Burke, who started a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a greenhouse that will allow him to feed more people at Eva’s Village, says the wind turbine is “another piece to a larger puzzle.”

“All of these things factor into everything that I’ve done here, including the wind turbine,” Burke, a Morris Township resident, said.

Burke also hopes the wind turbine will “[show] people what we can actually accomplish if we choose to.”

For more information about Burke’s greenhouse Kickstarter campaign, click here.