Find out the latest news on wind energy and wind turbines. Wind power is definitely here to stay.
The Firewinder, created by Tom Lawton, is the newest and coolest piece of environmental art that can come in handy around your home, and is an incredibly simple concept to boot. By day, the Firewinder looks like any other vertical wind turbine that you would hang from a tree (pictured here), but by nighttime, a slight breeze will be able [...]
Read more →Although the idea is still in a very early testing phase, researchers from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have successfully tethered a high flying kite to a grounded generator and saved the energy produced from the high altitude winds. Their nickname for the project is “The Laddermill” and, by the look of [...]
Read more →In the planning stages of building offshore wind farms, it’s often difficult to determine the best area to take advantage of the ocean currents. But with the recent increase in access to satellite mapping, harnessing winds around the globe will be a lot easier. NASA’s QuickSCAT satellite has created maps of nearly 10 years worth [...]
Read more →As everybody knows, the “City that never sleeps” is full of lights and sound all night long – especially in Times Square. But a new billboard from electronics manufacturer Ricoh, going up at the corner of 7th and 42nd, will be as bright as its neighbours, but completely powered by wind and solar. The 47′ [...]
Read more →Currently there is a wind farm in Northeast England that is scattered with fairly small wind turbines to generate power. But as of last week, Queen Elizabeth just bought the world’s largest offshore wind turbine to be constructed for the area by 2010. The turbine is a 7.5 megawatt MBE turbine that is going to [...]
Read more →General Electric just received one of its biggest orders for wind turbines from T. Boone Pickens, energy executive at Mesa Power: 667 Turbines that will be able to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity – that’s enough to power roughly 300,000 average homes. This is just phase one of the Pampa Wind Project that is going [...]
Read more →Everything’s bigger in Texas (or so I’ve been led to believe), so it’s no surprise that their wind power has now doubled that of California’s. Texas’ flat, wide-open terrain has proven to be the perfect place for wind farms to be constructed. If the last four months are any indication, with over half a billion [...]
Read more →Have you always wanted a personal wind turbine, but thought it wouldn’t quite fit in your backyard? Good news – Freetricity’s Windmaster has you covered. Their miniature roof-mounted residential wind turbines can be affixed to any home or garage that wants to generate a bit of wind energy. The claim is that using the Windmaster [...]
Read more →Dell Computer’s head offices in Round Rock Texas is a 2.1 million square foot spread that, as of yesterday, became powered by 100% green energy. 60% of this is generated by wind energy, while the remaining 40% comes from a technology developed by Waste Management called gas-to-energy. This process takes gas (mostly methane) from landfill [...]
Read more →The Huaneng Group in China is planning to build the biggest wind farm that the country has seen, with a total of 200 turbines over 100 square-kilometres in Fuxin city. Although the report claims that this will help reduce carbon dioxide emission by 750,000 tonnes and sulphur dioxide by 4,000 tonnes a year, China is [...]
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