Wind Energy Systems for Electric Power Generation (Green Energy and Technology)
David Cox (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
‘Propeller type’ wind turbines on houses and buildings are always a problem when it comes to planning; the fact is they aren’t particularly pretty especially in the suburbs and villages. Inevitably these applications elicit strong opinions. So I was interested to learn more about the Power Collective’s innovative RidgeBlade, potentially an affordable and effective way...
Center for Environment, Commerce & (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and violent conflict. If we do not act to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet we leave to the next generation will be a very different place than the one we know today. Just as the fates of our individual economies are connected in one global destiny, so is the fate of our environment. We know that the emissions from automobiles on American highways contribute to the same urgent environmental...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Chickens Keep Coming Home to Roost , Leo Hindrey writes about the Chinese plan to buy part of the wind-generation arm of a company called AES, China's state-controlled investment fund, China Investment Corp. (CIC), plans to invest $2.2 billion to acquire 15% of the stock and, forebodingly, 35% of the actual wind-generation business of AES, the Arlington, VA-based company...
Cynical Chatter From The Underworld (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... won’t be passed on to the consumer. Then it will be the people who can afford to install solar or wind generation systems to feed energy back to the grid and finally the people who can actually take advantage of the meters and reduce their usage. There is one group however that won’t benefit, the people who are already, ‘energy poor’, to use the current phrase. These are the people...
