My friend Bill Moore, of EVWorld.com fame, likes to let the world know how well his home state of Nebraska is doing in terms of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of wind. Here we see this morning’s report, represented …
Category: Wind Energy
Offshore Wind–We’re Talkin’ BIG
The Netherlands recently installed an offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 12 MW, sufficient to power 30,000 homes. Its blades are the length of footballs fields, and it stands almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower. The cost-engineering of …
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Notes on New Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Here’s a vertical axis wind turbine called “Harmony” whose uniqueness, according to its inventor, is that its operator can open or close to cover more or less area. He erroneously believes that “for every wind speed, there is an optimum …
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Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Energy–Reducing CO2 Emissions
Question: For how many consecutive years has Kansas managed to reduce its CO2 emissions? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is what happens when there is a rapid replacement of coal with wind. Bravissimo! …
Trump’s Deranged Rant on Wind Energy
I’m sure most readers are aware that the President of the United States went on an unhinged rant against the wind energy industry recently which, as could have been predicted, was littered with untruths.
Floating Wind Turbines
As we frequently discuss here, island nations are often good candidates for flavors of renewable energy that have only niche applications, insofar as the alternatives are both dirty and expensive.
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Trump to Pay Scottish Government $290,000 in Attorneys’ Fees Over Wind Power Dispute
Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government’s legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development. He had battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project (a total of 11 turbines) before …
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Wind Turbines
Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made. What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the …
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Attractive Wind Turbine Has Low Value
There is a reason that wind turbines have long blades: the power they generate is proportional to the area they sweep, and, since the area of a circle is pi times the square of its radius, bigger means much better.
Wind Energy, Front and Center
My colleague Bill Moore of EV World and EVisioneer2020 writes from his home in Omaha, Nebraska, “(Here’s the) wind power contribution to the Southwest Power Pool this morning.” (See below.)
