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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wind Energy America Obtains Financing to Complete Minnesota Wind Farm Wind Energy America Inc. (WNEA) announced that it has started ordering parts and beginning construction and interconnection operations to complete its wind farm project in Minnesota which contains two of the Gamesa wind turbines acquired in the Boreal Energy asset purchase. Visit the original...
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ETF Trends (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is good news for those eco-friendly advocates and wind-related exchange traded funds (ETFs), as two Cal State Long Beach professors have developed a new electricity-generating wind turbine. Conventional pinwheel wind turbines are large, crowded together on wind farms, and need headwinds of 22...
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Tech Lime (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
In a town not far from Utica, New York there are acres and acres of wind turbines for as far as the eye can see. An you would think that the energy they create is actually going to the town they’re in…right? NO! More than half the power the turbines create is going to New [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Breakthrough In Small Wind Technology The main work of wind turbines is to utilize the energy of wind and convert it into electricity; stronger wind is considered good for electricity production. But the speed of wind should not be too strong because it makes turbines spin too fast and in this process it commits suicide! Why [...]
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TopEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
The main work of wind turbines is to utilize the energy of wind and convert it into electricity; stronger wind is considered good for electricity production. But the speed of wind should not be too strong because it makes turbines spin too fast and in this process it commits suicide! Why is it so? [...]
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Alternative Energy News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The main work of wind turbines is to utilize the energy of wind and convert it into electricity; stronger wind is considered good for electricity production. But the speed of wind should not be too strong because it makes turbines spin too fast and in this process it commits suicide! Why is it so? [...]
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
AMSC & SBW Partner To Develop 2-MW Wind Turbines American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC) and Shenyang Blower Works (Group) Co. Ltd. (SBW), a Chinese industrial equipment manufacturer, signed an agreement for co-development work that could position SBW to become a leading supplier of wind turbines for the Chinese marketplace, according to the company. Visit the original...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
WINDSOR, Ontario, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Southwestern Ontario opponents of what could become the largest wind farm site in Canada raised new concerns the turbines would endanger private airstrips. Councilors gave approval for Brookfield Renewable Power to erect 350-foot high wind turbine towers at an Essex County council meeting Wednesday night, However, several residents...
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Moldova.org (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Southwestern Ontario opponents of what could become the largest wind farm site in Canada raised new concerns the turbines would endanger private airstrips.Councilors gave approval for Brookfield Renewable Power to erect 350-foot high wind turbine towers at an Essex County council meeting Wednesday night,However, several residents said planners had overlooked the safety...
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Wind Turbine With ATS Hybrid Tower One of the world’s biggest wind turbines with a hybrid tower is being built at the wind test site in Grevenbroich west of Cologne. The tower combines a lower segment consisting of long, narrow pre-cast concrete components made by Advanced Tower Systems (ATS) and an upper segment made of conventional [...]
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DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Read it. I still say we need to hook a wind turbine up to AlGore’s mouth, we’d be able to solve our energy problems for decades. Hey, we’re stuck with all that hot air anyway, we might as well get some use out of it.
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
The University of Maine at Presque Isle has reached an agreement for construction of a wind turbine on campus.
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Eco Friendly Mag (Free subscription) | yesterday
Oregon BEST and BPA to Fund Wind Energy Storage Research 11/21/2008 - A proposal from Oregon State University researchers to the Bonneville Power Administration to explore new ways of controlling, storing and releasing power generated by wind turbines has been funded in part because the Oregon Built Environment & Sustainable Technologies Center (Oregon BEST) was able to supply...
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Friendship Cybet Net (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Still addicted to oil like the rest of the world? You might reconsider wind power rehab now that a startup called ExRo has developed turbines that it says are consistently 30% -- and in some situations as much as 100% -- more efficient than the standard kind. The traditionally-used mechanical transmissions have been replaced with an inexpensive electric alternative that can adapt to changes...
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a sibilant intake of breath (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
A new type of generator for wind turbines promises to increase the range of wind speeds across which they generate electricity efficiently. The system, developed by ExRo Technologies of Vancouver, uses stacks of copper coils that can be activated and deactivated individually. That means the generator is capable of deriving small amounts of power from [...]
