To get a sense for what it’s like trucking a 189-foot-long wind turbine blade onto a remote site with non-optimum road conditions, I offer you the video below. It made me smile, and I hope it does the same for …
When You’re Carrying a BIG Wind Turbine Blade, There’s No Such Thing as a LITTLE Problem Read More »
When it comes to offshore wind, there are a number of important ideas afloat, if you’ll pardon the pun. Most of the concepts that will be implemented in the near-term are based on seabed mounting, and likely, most of them …
Here’s a wind energy product that literally nobody could possibly need, which, as far as I am aware makes this unique. First, we need to eliminate anyone with access to the grid. Then let’s get rid of anyone anywhere near …
A Renewable Energy Product Whose Total Available Market Is …. Nonexistent Read More »
One of the challenges facing solar and wind energy is capacity factor, i.e. the ratio of the total energy generated by a device to the total energy that it’s potentially capable of generating (multiplied by 100, to make a percentage). …
Renewable Energy Products that Cause Embarrassment To the Industry Read More »
Though he was only a couple of years out of college when I was introduced to Stephen Lacey (pictured) in 2009, he had already become a senior staff writer at the prestigious website RenewableEnergyWorld.com, and had learned essentially everything there …
Russia Might Be Doing Something in Wind Energy–Or Maybe Not Read More »
From this article: GE Renewable Energy and Invenergy just announced that Oklahoma will soon be home to the largest wind farm in the U.S., the Wind Catcher project, which will have a capacity of 2,000 MW.
The future of wind is big…in more ways than one. Yes, the cost of wind energy keeps coming down, causing ongoing excitement among developers and environmentalists. But the literal size of the turbines is increasing as well (10MW offshore turbines …
Regarding the aesthetics of wind turbines, Glenn Doty writes: It’s a matter of opinion and taste. For as long as I’ve been alive, I’ve seen windmills on postcards and paintings… expressions of beauty. The sleek towers today look far different …
An old friend (“George”–possibly an ex-friend after this) shared this article on Facebook this morning, sparking the following conversation: George: Wind turbines are neither clean nor green and they provide zero global energy.
Here’s some good news that I came across on Facebook just now: From Business Insider: America’s first offshore wind farm launched with GE turbines twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty. It really does appear that offshore wind is …
