In Palo Alto, CA, a medical foundation is putting their power where the need is. They are putting up a wind turbine from a new start-up company, and it will be installed at the foundation itself, which means it could…
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Solar, Wind, Nuclear, and Coal: Diversity Is Key To Success
The Reading (PA) Eagle has a great article by Darrin Youker today, dealing with that state’s attempts at energy diversity as a means to energy independence. In areas that were once relatively thriving coal communities, the now declining towns are…
A Wind Power White Paper
At the University of Massachusetts Amherst Campus, wind power research has been going on for a long time, on campus, and with a test project on a nearby mountain top. In 2002, members of the Renewable Energy Research Lab and…
Wind Turbine Quiet
In order to get the opposition position out here quickly, today I’m offering a video, again from UK, in which footage is taken of an older generation wind turbine that generates no apparent noise. You’ll hear the narrator talking, you’ll…
More Wind Controversy
Sorry, but this issue does keep coming up. The problems that accompany industrial wind farm installations won’t go away quietly, and more areas are regretting ever letting big wind into their midst. The problems aren’t trivial. They range from a…
The Vertical Wind Turbine
A couple of days ago I had a post about large vs small wind turbine research. Today I have a video of one of the more well-engineered smaller-scale designs, the Helix Wind Turbine. As you can see the blades are…
Small Wind On The Rise
While most of the wind energy press is going to the large-turbine wind farms, more stories these days are focusing on the smaller installations that are privately owned. Last Sunday’s Boston Globe had a spread about a convent that is…
Smart Wind Turbines
Going along with yesterday’s post where I talked about XCel Energy’s unique turbine control design and how it’s being used with large battery systems, today’s Wall Street Journal has an article that ties in one more company, GridPoint, Inc., who…
Better Batteries Bring Bigger Benefits
The photo at left is of a 1-Megawatt sodium-sulfur battery system which can power 500 homes for 7 hours. It’s part of a 11.5-Megawatt wind farm in Luverne, Minnesota. The company, MinWind Energy, is owned by 360 local investors from…
More On Urban Solar and Wind Power
More on yesterday’s post about the power grid. There is every reason to believe that user-based power generation is a very possible and profitable way to go to prevent having to totally rebuild our grid system. Think about the acres…