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Sunday, February 17th, 2008Here’s what sounds like a good and useful thing that states can do to encourage alternative energy use. The Utah Geological Survey will lend wind-measuring anemometer towers to residents to help determine if their property can become a reliable source of wind power. Utah says that they will install either a [...]
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UK trees spark wind turbine wrangle
Thursday, February 14th, 2008We all know we’re going to see many more of these stories - I told you about Neighbors in conflict over solar panels about a month ago. Now we have a couple of neighbors over in the UK fighting it out over a wind turbine and, as the wind turbine owner puts it, [...]
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New vertical axis wind turbine design - Windpower’s “Aerogenerator”
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Windpower’s Aerogenerator vertical axis wind turbine
The picture doesn’t give a good sense of the size of this thing, but the new Aerogenerator vertical axis turbine being designed by Windpower is 144 meters high, and would generate up to 9 megawatts of electricity. According to an article in the Guardian, the Aerogenerator would generate nearly 3 times [...]
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Ducted Wind Turbine from Marquiss Wind Power aimed at rooftops
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Marquiss Wind Power announced that they’ve raised $1.3 million in funding to help commercialize their Aeropoint ducted wind turbine. As you can tell from the pictures, the Aeropoint Ducted Wind Turbine looks a little different than other wind turbines - its small (19 ft tall), and pivots to take advantage of wind direction. The Aeropoint [...]
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Wind power growth gusts strongly in USA in 2007
Friday, January 18th, 2008USA Today is reporting that US wind power grew 45% in 2007, which was the largest rise since the 1980’s. The study, released by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), cites federal tax credit, new state renewable energy mandates and global warming concerns as the reasons.
An additional 5,244 megawatts were installed in 2007. [...]
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Cape Wind project takes another step forward
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Cleantech reports that a draft environmental impact statement from the US Departement of Interior stating that the Cape Wind project is environmentally and economically superior to alternate sites. Â Â The project, which has been tied up in knots for years, plans to place 130 turbines over 24 square miles in Nantucket Sound. Â Â The report says that [...]
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Chile opens its first wind power park
Saturday, January 5th, 2008LatinAmericapress.org reports that Chile, which currently imports 98% of its oil and 75 percent of its natural gas, has opened up its first wind power park in the northern region of Coquimbo. The park, which is the first of four similar projects slated for this region, will provide 18.15 MW of electricity to the Inter- Connected Central System, which supplies almost all [...]
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Cities Enticing Residents to Go Green
Sunday, December 30th, 2007The Associated Press has a partial list of some of the benefits, perks, rebates, etc that cities and towns are giving to its citizens who ‘go green’. From Baltimore’s giving of $2,000 towards closing costs for people who buy new homes close to where they work to Parkland, Florida’s $150 rebate to people [...]
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Gov’s Pawlenty and Richardson form national wind-power coalition
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Gov Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn) and Bill Richardson (D-New Mexico) have formed a Governors’ Windpower Coalition that “they hope will put wind power on the cutting edge.”
“This is being modeled after the Governors’ Ethanol Coalition, which now has 30 states,” Pawlenty spokesman Brian McClung said. Pawlenty was chair of that coalition when he [...]
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Connecting wind farms can make a more reliable and cheaper power source
Saturday, December 1st, 2007From Science Daily comes word of a study done at Stanford University that showed how connecting wind power farms throughout a geographic area with transmission lines will combine the outputs of all the farms into one very powerful energy source that is cheaper and more reliable than present wind power sources. The [...]
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