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Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (Vawts)
Mar 17 2012 11:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
VAWT's, Turbines that have vertical rotors and . . . look like eggbeaters sticking out of the ground. Comparing the "power per square meter of land" . . . shows a tenfold increase in power: . . . . . . VAWTs 21 to 47 watts . . . . . . HA...
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Wind Farm Makes Lowest Cost Electricity
Mar 26 2012 01:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
Kenya will build 365 wind turbines, . . . with a capacity to produce 850 kW of electricity at . . . 9.9 cents(US) per kilowatt-hour (kWh) and . . . without subsidies. To pilot and demonstrate the . . . . . . economic, . . . . . . social and . . . . ....
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Put The Money, Where The Mouth Is!
Apr 04 2012 02:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Three large investors in renewable energy,
. . . are risking huge amounts of up-front capital,
. . . to provide Future generations with Clean, Green, Renewable energy.
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Updated: U.s. Installed Wind Capacity
Apr 24 2012 10:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Notice: A substantial amount of wind cannot be built, . . . in places such as the Southeast, . . . due to a lack of natural resources. There is a lot of Offshore wind in the Northeast . . . that is not being used because of Not-In-My-Back-Yard win...
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Usa Offshore Wind
May 11 2012 05:50 PM | eds in Wind Power
Northeast offshore wind market has stacks of reports detailing its vast potential,
. . . but zero installations.
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New Zealand Closer To 90% Green
May 12 2012 01:35 AM | eds in Wind Power
Geothermal and hydropower have long supplied, the majority of New Zealand’s power, but hydro is at a natural limit. Wind is well positioned to fill the gap.
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Texas Swift!
May 13 2012 02:15 AM | eds in Wind Power
Scales Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art wind turbine research facility in the Texas Panhandle, is expected to become fully operational starting October.
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Is Wind A Growth Industry Or Not?
Jun 20 2012 02:20 AM | eds in Wind Power
Global wind power chart, shows installations increased to 238,351 MW Source: wind power Not wind power
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On & Off-Shore Wind Energy Announcements
Jul 05 2012 07:55 PM | eds in Wind Power
3,000 megawatt Wyoming wind energy project and Rhode Island, Massachusetts Wind Energy Area, take key steps forward Onshore, Salazar announced the release of final environmental impact statements for a proposed wind power complex in Wyoming that would...
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Wind Turbine Without Blades?
Aug 04 2012 06:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
“the sailboat is one of the oldest wind conversion systems and to date, it is the only system capable of capturing and converting the totality of the wind kinetic energy into mechanical power.” “Innovation isn’t just a question of cleverness. It is...
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Commercial Wind Leasing Offshore Maine
Aug 09 2012 06:15 PM | eds in Wind Power
Statoil floating technology, about . . . 12 nautical miles off the coast, would have a . . . 12-megawatt production capacity through . . . 4 wind turbine generators Source: Commercial-Wind-Leasing-Offshore-Maine floating-turbines
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Offshore Wind
Aug 17 2012 03:10 AM | eds in Wind Power
"Wind power is the world’s leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower. Offshore wind capacity is growing quickly, however, expanding nearly 6-fold since 2006. United Kingdom had 2,500 megawatts of offshore wind, 1/2 half of the w...
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New England Wind Projects
Sep 12 2012 09:40 AM | eds in Wind Power
The United States has more than 40,000 MW of installed wind power capacity. Map of installed and planned New England wind projects. Source: windpoweringamerica
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One Of The Largest Land-Based Wind Farms In The...
Sep 26 2012 06:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
Shepherds Flat Wind Farm, an 845 megawatt (MW) in the state of Oregon, U.S.A. . . . is up and running using 338 General Electric (GE) 2.5 MW wind turbines, . . . generating up to 2 billion kWh each year to electricity to . . . Southern California Ed...
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Warren Buffett Buys 2 Wind Farms
Oct 03 2012 01:10 AM | eds in Wind Power
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company is the No. 1 rate-regulated utility owner of wind-powered generation capacity in the U.S. Through MidAmerican Wind, MidAmerican is growing its unregulated wind portfolio. MidAmerican began building wind energy projec...
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Farming Wind Fully Charged
Oct 03 2012 09:30 PM | eds in Wind Power
$60,000.- Windmill, pays back in 5-6 years on a Farm, is a great cash crop.
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Chokecherry And Sierra Madre Wind Energy Project
Oct 11 2012 10:10 PM | eds in Wind Power
Ken Salazar today announced that the Department of the Interior . . . has reached the President’s goal of authorizing . . . 10,000 megawatts of renewable power on public lands with the . . . approval of the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Wind Ener...
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Cape Cod: Air Force Radar Stations, Wind Turbines?
Oct 13 2012 12:05 PM | eds in Wind Power
Cape Cod Air Force Station, the 6th Space Warning Squadron receives . . . 2 new wind turbines. Aveillant has come up with a new radar system for air traffic control at airports . . . that it calls a Holographic Radar, which uses . . . 3-D imagery to...
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Why Wind?
Nov 13 2012 07:20 PM | eds in Wind Power
World wind electric generating capacity, grew at nearly . . . 30% per year, over the past decade. Although a wind farm can cover many square miles, . . . turbines occupy only 1% of that area. Ranchers and farmers can, in effect, double-crop their land,...
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Wind Energy In India
Nov 14 2012 02:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
Over 520 wind energy projects from 7 states in . . . Andhra Pradesh, . . . Gujarat, . . . Karnataka, . . . Madhya Pradesh, . . . Maharashtra, . . . Rajasthan and . . . Tamil Nadu hit another milestone crossing 2,000 MW of wind energy. Source: climat...
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Wind Power, In The Republican States
Nov 21 2012 05:00 PM | eds in Wind Power
Affordable Power, 90% drop in the price, of wind power since 1980. American Made, 60% of a wind turbine’s value is now produced here in America, . . . compared to 25% prior to 2005. Nationwide Jobs, 500 facilities across 44 states . . . manufacture f...
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Wind Output, Just Surpassed 10,000 Megawatts
Nov 28 2012 03:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
MISO, the regional grid operator for 11 states and . . . the Canadian province of Manitoba, . . . actual wind output, just surpassed 10,000 megawatts, . . . representing more than 25% of the generation output being used, . . . overnight Friday, Nov. 23...
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Us Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy
Dec 03 2012 04:25 PM | eds in Wind Power
BOEM Proposes Leasing Nearly 278,000 Acres Offshore . . . Rhode Island, . . . Massachusetts and . . . Virginia for Wind Energy Source: us-atlantic-offshore-wind Google
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Renewable Power Costs
Dec 03 2012 04:35 PM | eds in Wind Power
Onshore wind power, sites can deliver electricity costs at as little as USD 0.04/kWh. Fossil fuel typically costs between USD 0.06 and 0.12/kWh in OECD countries Source: irena
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Ge Fabric Wind Turbine Blades
Dec 05 2012 02:30 AM | eds in Wind Power
General Electric is developing a new turbine blade design . . . using architectural fabric that it says could . . . significantly reduce construction and assembly costs . . . compared with fiberglass, and . . . put wind energy on an equal economic...
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