Tag: Wind Power - Page 14
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Timelapse of Wind Turbine Installation Shows That Visibility Matters(Video)
When Ecotricity installed a wind turbine at a solar factory, commenters were divided over whether it was a significant step forward, or a publicity stunt. Either way, it was one more wind turbine producing significant amounts
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Powering the Dream & The Central Intellectual Question of Environmentalism (Book Review)
Alexis Madrigal, senior editor at The Atlantic, has a new book out--Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology. Basically a 300+ page tour of the century-long history of renewable energy development in the United States, it amply
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How a Wind Farm Impacts an American Town (Video)
Here's a cool story about how the construction of a wind farm impacted a small, rural American county. You rarely see stories like this -- that tick through the economic benefits of wind power, from the employment opportunities generated by building
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Wind-Powered Mosque Planned for German Town
The tall spire that is often the most distinctive architectural feature of a mosque, a minaret is important as the place from which the Islamic call to prayer is issued five times a day. In one small Muslim
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WindMade: A New Label for Products Built Using at Least 25% Wind Power
Will companies be impelled to make more of an effort to use clean power if they were publicly recognized for their efforts? The folks behind Windmade are betting they will. Windmade is a new initiative spearheaded by Vestas, the Danish wind company,
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140mph Electric "Wind-powered" Superbike
Wind entrepreneur Dale Vince may be a hardcore vegan who won't build wind turbines at turkey farms, and has banned red meat from the socccer stadium he owns, but he is also a bit of a petrolhead. His "wind-powered" electric
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Feed-in Tariffs Rule, and This is Why (Video)
Most folks in the United States would be forgiven for never having heard of a feed-in tariff. While quite popular -- and effective -- in nations like Germany, England (just see Sami's recent post for a testimonial), and around 50 others, renewable
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Acoustics Experts are Working on Making Wind Turbines Quieter
Photo: Flickr, CC Wind Power is Still a Maturing Technology University of Adelaide acoustics researchers are investigating the causes of wind turbine noise with the aim of making them quieter. "Wind turbine noise is controversial but there's no doubt
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US' First Two Offshore Wind Farms On Hold Thanks To Congressional Budget Battle
Two wind power projects vying to the be first completed in the United States have been put on hold thanks to partisan politics pulling the plug on the Department of Energy's loan programs. As SmartPlanet reports, both NRG Bluewater Wind's planned
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Anti-Wind Activists "Talk Gibberish", Yet Greens May Soon Be Out-Flanked
From spiritual opposition to Cape Wind to an Earth First! anti-wind protest in Maine , there are plenty of groups out there opposing specific wind projects. And that's as it should be.
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Alexis Madrigal on Powering the Dream (Podcast)
Wind turbines, solar cells, wave power. If you think these are newfangled technologies, think again. They were fangled long ago, and their story is the meat of Alexis Madrigal's new book, Powering the Dream. Madrigal (a senior editor at The Atlantic and
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Google Invests $55 Million in California's Massive 1,550MW Alta Wind Farm
Feeling Lucky? Your Searches Help Pay for ThisGoogle's not stopping its massive clean energy investments. After $168M in solar thermal and $100M in wind power, they're investing in... more wind power! They're providing $55 million
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"Sustainable Decadence": A Wind-Powered Hot Tub Built From Scrap
Ross Stevens demonstrated with his Shipping Container House that he has a way with junk. He writes that his "general approach to design is to find materials/objects that have concluded their first lives." He combines his
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Renewable Energy Can Power the World in 40 Years: IPCC
So it looks like renewable energy can power the world, after all. And no, it's not some hippie dippy Stanford researchers or a cleantech pioneer making the case this time -- it's the Intergovernmental
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Arguments Against Nuclear, Oil, Coal... And Wind (Pic)
I think the image says it all. We can come up with some fairly legitimate reasons why we want to move away from nuclear, oil and coal as fuel sources. But wind? That's when the arguments against this renewable energy start to run
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Evolutionary Algorithms Can Make Large Wind Farms Produce More Power
Photo: kcdsTM, Flickr, CC Getting More Clean Power From Wind Farms A lot of attention is being given, and rightly so, to the growing size of wind turbines. Higher turbines with bigger blades can capture a lot more energy from the wind, and thus produce
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Wind Farms Paid Not To Produce - A Lesson In Energy Transmission & Storage
It may seem like stupidity embodied on the face of it, but six Scottish wind farms have been paid the equivalent of $1.46 million to not operate last month, EarthTimes reports. The reason is only going to become
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Cape Wind Gets Final Federal Approval - Construction Could Begin This Fall
Ending what has seemed to be a never-ending pre-construction saga, the Department of Interior has given final approval to the Cape Wind offshore wind power project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts.
