Energy storage is key to developing usable renewable systems, because both solar and wind generation is by nature sporadic. While batteries are the first thought when looking at storage, other methods need to be developed to make new equipment viable…
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…
Renewable Energy Increases One Percent Per Year
According to the Boston Globe, Massachusetts is ahead of the planned yearly increases in available renewable energy for the state’s utilities, rising to more than 3% green. The plan is for this 1% increase to continue until 2020, when 15%…
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…