Tag: Wind Power - Page 11
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IBM Supercomputers Help Vestas Squeeze the Most Out of Wind Farms
Supercomputers can help us figure out where are the best spots for wind farms. This kind of optimization can increase clean energy production per installed turbine.
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Cape Wind Held Up Yet Again: Court Claims it Could Prove Hazardous to Airplanes
The long-delayed Cape Wind project hits yet another stumbling block ...
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UK Offshore Wind Power Industry May Struggle To Keep Up, As Nation Adds 2.5 GW Per Year By 2016
Figures from RenewableUK show that Britain will add 1.2 GW of offshore wind power next year, climbing to 2.5 GW a year in 2016. In between though there may be supply chain bottlenecks.
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India Will Install 3,000 MW Wind Power This Year, Up 39% From 2010
Analysis from HSBC Global Research shows India's strong wind power growth will continue through 2015.
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Sun- and Wind-Powered Lifeboat Becomes a Recording Studio
20 years after his last album, Thomas Dolby releases a new album recorded in his solar and wind powered lifeboat studio
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The Week in Pictures: Cloud Travel, a Vertical Forest in Milan, and More (Slideshow)
We talk a lot about low-impact transportation on TreeHugger, from bikes to electric cars to high speed rail. But this is definitely the first time we've talked about traveling on a floating cloud.
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Sail Powered Shipping Makes a Tentative Come Back
Sail-powered shipping may seem quaint, but in a world of ever more expensive oil it may just be making a comeback.
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Wind Turbines May Blow Earth Out of Orbit, Coal Lobby Warns: The Onion (Video)
This Onion spoof on the fossil fuel industry's attacks on clean energy made the rounds a few months ago, but it somehow eluded my radar. Usually, in these cases, I'd simply curse the blog-gods, and let it join the graveyard of viral videos that have
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Windstalk Concept Removes Blades from Wind Power!
This beautiful design shows that there's more than one way to harness the power of the wind!
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German Trains To Run on 100% Renewables
During our live chat with Solarcentury's Jeremy Leggett yesterday, we started out by discussing the high profile solar railway bridge his company is helping install in central London as
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How To Store Wind Power: Pump It Into A Big Underwater Balloon
Tyler Hamilton recently wrote Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy, and while the book may be out, he keeps looking for those crazy ideas that might change
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Hybrid Wind-Solar System to Provide More Constant, Reliable Clean Energy
One of the most common criticisms you hear from clean energy naysayers is that renewables suffer from too much variability. But from the world's first 24/7 solar power plant to large-scale energy storage, that problem is now being
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Solar & Wind Could Power All Of US By 2026
The American public's relationship with clean energy is complicated: Polls consistently show that we overwhelmingly want more of it. The majority of Americans want the government to invest in clean power
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1 Gigawatt New England Offshore Wind Farm Inches Forward - Production Could Begin in 2016
A massive new offshore wind power project, to be located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has taken a procedural step forward. Plans for the 1 GW Deepwater Wind Energy Center, being developed by Deepwater Wind, have
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Opposition to Vermont Wind Farm Comes From Former Wildlife Department Commissioner
Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont today in the New York Times. At issue is whether the clean electricity that
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Wind Turbine Noise May Annoy But Causes No Serious Health Problems, New Study Says
This is perhaps not the final word on so-called wind turbine syndrome, but it is one of them. New research published in Environmental Research Letters looked into the effect of low frequency noise from wind turbines on
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Shanghai Park's Pavilions Are Wind-Powered Urban Leisure Spots
Wind-powered karaoke? Only in Shanghai would such a thing exist. These colourful pavilions were initially built as an art installation -- one of many themed pavilions in a new waterfront park created for Shanghai's 2010 World
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990 MW Proposed Nevada Wind Farm Would Be Largest In US & State's First
What may be Nevada's first wind farm would also be the largest in the United States. Proposed by a subsidiary of Good Energies, the 990 MW project would consist of 350 turbines, and cost up to $1.5 billion, including the necessary access roads and
