Archive for May, 2007
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Monday, May 7th, 2007The San Francisco Chronicle writes about tapping into the jet stream for future wind power. Researchers in California and around the world are looking into huge kite-like generators that would stay aloft between 6 and 9 miles above the ground. The jet stream typically blows from west to east in the […]
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New wind turbine blade design from Sandia National Labs
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Engineer Live reports that a new wind turbine blade design developed by researchers at Sandia National Labs in partnership with Knight and Carver of San Diago looks to be more efficient than current designs at low wind speed. The new design, called a sweep twist adaptive rotor (STAR) has a gently curved tip, […]
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American Security Resources Corp joins residential wind market
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Alternative Energy Retailer reports that Houston based American Security Resources Corp has formed a new subsidiary named American Wind Power Corp that will focus on developing vertical axis residential scale wind turbines. They also plan on developing and leveraging technologies their Hydra Fuel Cell and American Hydrogen subsidiaries to store and transfer wind generated […]
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Wind Turbines powered by vehicle traffic?
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007Earthtimes.org has an interesting little article about research being performed by Mark Oberholzer, a professor of architecture at Rice University in Houston, TX where he has incorporated vertical-axis wind turbines into highway dividers - in other words, wind from passing cars generates the electricty. It’s still preliminary research, but the concept involves using […]
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