Photo from Siemens. Offshore wind farm Nysted, Denmark. It is not the usual green suspect. But it hopes to build a 5-gigawatt, deep-water wind farm – the largest in the world, equal to the output from five nuclear plants. Matthew…
They’ve partnered with Duke Energy to use wind power for 15% of their energy at hundreds of Wal-Mart stores in Texas.
This new record of 43% of electricity demand being met by wind power happened during big storms with lots of wind in Spain recently. They average 11%, another impressive number.
Maui wind turbines. Lahaina Pali trail. (I took the photo on 12) Hawaii governor Linda Lingle has announced a plan for Hawaii to have 70% clean energy by 2030. It’s a stunning plan, and puts the Aloha State in the…
The world’s first offshore wind farm, at the head of Copenhagen harbor. Denmark plans to power 1 million homes and 100,000 electric vehicles with wind power by 2013. Imagine if the US had projects like this happening nationwide. Perhaps we…
This is precisely what the country needs. Renewable energy creating new jobs. In the Rust Belt town of Newton, Iowa, the recently closed Maytag plant is now being used to build concrete towers for wind turbines. Another factory is building…
These new wind turbines can be mounted on homes and produce a mere 35 decibels of noise. Plus, they can turn in any direction to face the wind.
It is designed to walk away from natural disasters like floods.
New tape from 3M is specifically designed to put on the edges of wind turbine blades to prevent pitting and erosion, thus adding several years of life to the sometimes enormous blades. “That pitting can affect the structural integrity of…
Compared to standard wind turbines, the Aerocam from Broadstar Wind Systems is more efficient, more compact, and can generate power with a little as 5 mph wind, a major improvement.