Installing a wind turbine
NREL installs a 1.5-MW turbine for testing. The turbine blades alone weigh 50 tons… I wonder how they do this offshore from a crane mounted on a ship that is moving with the waves?
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Category Wind turbines
Ford plant to be converted into renewable energy park
An idled Ford plant in Michigan will become a manufacturing plant for solar and wind as well as for cleantech research and training. When completed it could employ 4,000 workers, nearly as many as the plant employed at its peak,…
Visionary plan for Chicago mass transit. Silent and green
The proposal replaces the 19th century elevated with a new mass transit system that makes its sustainability visible in order to move the souls of the general public through beauty. Seeking to do “more with less,” the new trains will…
First full-scale floating offshore wind turbine
Hywind comprises a 2.3-megawatt wind turbine installed on a traditional floater of the kind previously used for such applications as production platforms and offshore loading.
Vertical axis wind turbines
Helix Wind has bought Venco Power, both make vertical axis wind turbines.