Other than common sense, there is nothing that prohibits investors from pumping cash into companies like Flower Turbines, that one day, owners claim, will build and sell devices that capture small amounts of wind energy. In fact, until about a …
Category: Wind Energy
A Return to Wind-Sailing Cargo Vessels?
Here’s a piece from Fossbytes, the same people who claim that the costs of maintaining EVs is greater than that of gas- and diesel-powered vehicles. A cargo ship named the Pyxis Ocean equipped with two 123-feet-tall WindWing sails embarked on …
Wind Harvest
If you’ve ever wondered how the physicists who have been studying how to extract the most energy out of the wind for the last three hundred years, whose work has been greatly accelerated in the last few decades, these people …
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Wind Catcher
The people from Wind Catcher say their product is “perfect for camping, RVing, and off-grid living. It’s lightweight, easy to install, and produces enough energy to power your devices and appliances for days.” Of course, “easy to install” is a …
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Is This Wind Turbine a Scam? Let’s Do Some Math.
Assume the turbine presented here is 1.5 meters tall, as shown, and let’s say 0.5 meters wide, meaning that its swept area is 0.75 square meters if it were refashioned into a standard bladed turbine, spinning in a circle, with …
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Small Wind Hasn’t Given Up
Apparently, there is still a conference for small wind, defined as anything under 25 KW, to be held this year in Jutland, a remote part of Denmark (see map). Perhaps the site was chosen because it’s one of few places …
Small Wind
From SkyWind: Energy from wind, generated right where you need it – that’s our SkyWind NG. The first independently tested micro wind turbine is efficient, quiet and made in Germany. This is a fabulous example of the saying, “If you …
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What Should We Be Doing as Temperatures Rise and Earth Becomes Less Inhabitable?
We know that the Earth is experiencing record high temperatures, and that these data points are not isolated, but are part of long-term warming trends that derive from the buildup of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere, largely due to our …
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Should You Invest in the Wind Flower?
If you can be convinced that anything about these people’s claims is true, by all means, jump in with both feet. One such claim is that they generate some energy at wind speeds that are lower than those that activate …
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Massive Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (“VAWT”) Coming Down
After a second catastrophic failure, Agile Wind Power is removing its giant VAWT from the Grevenbroich test site. From this: The dismantlement follows the second failure of the test turbine (see photo). The Swiss company has been developing the mammoth giromill …
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