Tag: Wind Power - Page 16
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Is Now the Time to Rethink Japan's Energy Future?
Nearly four weeks after a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami devastated northeastern Japan, emergency personnel are still
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Scottish Wind Power Output Claims Slightly Deflated by New Report
A new study supported by Scotland's John Muir Trust, examines the potential electricity generation from wind power there and comes to the conclusion that a number of popular pro-wind talking points overstate the
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Can Wind Pioneer Play Alongside the Big Utilities?
From his 'wind-powered' electric sports car via his red-meat-free football stadium to becoming one of the UK's richest people through renewable energy, wind pioneer Dale Vince usually attracts both headlines and controversy. Now The Independent
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Beekman Boys Install The Vertical Axis Wind Turbine You'll Want To Get For Your Home
I'll be bluntly honest: I don't think most backyard wind turbines, still less rooftop wind turbines, are worth the money in most situations. But there are a couple which are really pretty good. Which is where the Windspire and
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Kitty Does Kill More Small Birds Than Wind Turbines, But For Big Birds It's A Different Story
As wind power installations over the past year in the US tank a new study is published that confirms house cats are more lethal to birds than wind turbines, but tells a different story for larger birds
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The Key Drivers for Cleantech, From Weather to World Economies
John Denniston of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a major investment firm supporting cleantech, gave a keynote speech at Cleantech Forum five years ago, discussing the major drivers pushing the industry forward. He was
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Japan's Wind Turbines Survive 1,000 Year Earthquake Unscathed
It'd be very difficult to exaggerate the scale of damage caused by the Japanese trifecta disaster of earthquake-tsunami-nuclear power plant crisis, but in the middle of it all there's one small bright spot: Japan's
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How Community-Owned Wind Power is Tackling Climate Change (Video)
From communities demanding more wind turbines to a Government-backed plan to spread income from renewables to surrounding residents, we've seen a lot of stories lately about harnessing renewables not just to create
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Community Wind Funds Spread Wealth from Renewables
When I wrote about one community that demanded more wind turbines be built near it, I noted that creating ways to spread the economic benefits of wind installations with the communities that
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Can Beautiful Turbines Help Critics Embrace Wind Energy?
With knock-down-drag-out fights erupting over the
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'Flying Donut' Turbines Tackle NIMBY Issue
In five years of reporting about windpower in Sweden, I was always amazed at the sometime subtle, sometimes blatant negativity about wind turbines. Maybe if there was a turbine directly in my back yard I would have felt different,
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One Quarter of China's Wind Power Still Not Connected to Electricity Grid
We've been long documenting China's rapid rise to the top tiers of wind power, both in manufacturing and installed capacity. Worldwatch's Revolt blog looks into some of those impressive stats and finds that
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Warren Buffett <3 Wind Power (His Utility Company is #1 in USA)
Photos: Public domain and Flickr, CCBuffett Quietly Became King of Wind PowerWarren Buffett has been in the news a lot lately for all kinds of things, but the media has mostly overlooked the fact that the uber-investor is also making big green moves.
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Cargill to Start Flying Kites Across the Ocean: SkySails Will Reduce Carbon Emissions of Shipping Vessels
Food and agriculture giant Cargill will soon start using giant kites on its shipping vessels to generate propulsion—and reduce fuel consumption by up to 35 percent. The kites, a product of Germany-based SkySails GmbH &
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Kite-Powered Electric Car Crosses Australia Using Only $15 Worth of Electricity
The Wind Explorer--a kite-assisted lightweight electric car--drove 3,107 miles across
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UK's First Wind Farm, Now 20 Years Old, Refurbished & Relaunched
It may often seem that wind power is still in its infancy, or at least its childhood, adolescence (or some other metaphor implying there's still lots of growth and development but not nearly doing all that it could and should), but commercial wind
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"Carbon Nation," Focusing on Climate Solutions, Hitting Theaters Soon (Video)
It took "An Inconvenient Truth" and then "The Age of Stupid" to wake many people up to the reality of climate change and what our role is in causing it. Yet while those films were long on pointing out the problem, they were
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Cape Wind CEO Jim Gordon on What Comes Next For Massachusetts' First Offshore Wind Farm (Video)
Interview with Jim Gordon, CEO of Cape Wind The famed Cape Wind offshore wind project has finally been granted a permit to begin construction, after a decade-long battle with the company and clean energy advocates on one side, and well-funded fossil
