Anything that promotes offshore wind is a positive development, but I’m not sure how much practical import it carries. The reason the East Coast is getting into offshore wind (and the West Coast isn’t) is ocean depth. You can be …
U.S. Navy Will Accept (Floating) Wind Farms Off California’s Central Coast Read More »
Here’s a great article that sums up the environmental impact of wind energy, and compares it to coal and natural gas in terms of emissions, harm to wildlife, land use, and several other parameters.
Texas may be known for its oil, but it’s sure doing a good job with wind energy. Moreover, Duke Energy is best known for its coal-fired power plants, but here we have an announcement that Duke has opened a 200 …
Good News in Wind Energy, From Some Sources One Might Not Expect Read More »
A reader submitted this photo, and notes, “Here’s a 1 MW unit we built in the Republic of Georgia.” I’m suspicious, and here’s why. It’s impossible to measure the height and diameter with real accuracy, because there’s nothing recognizable at …
My friend Bill Moore, of EVWorld.com fame, likes to let the world know how well his home state of Nebraska is doing in terms of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of wind. Here we see this morning’s report, represented …
The Netherlands recently installed an offshore wind turbine with a capacity of 12 MW, sufficient to power 30,000 homes. Its blades are the length of footballs fields, and it stands almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower. The cost-engineering of …
Here’s a vertical axis wind turbine called “Harmony” whose uniqueness, according to its inventor, is that its operator can open or close to cover more or less area. He erroneously believes that “for every wind speed, there is an optimum …
Question: For how many consecutive years has Kansas managed to reduce its CO2 emissions? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: This is what happens when there is a rapid replacement of coal with wind. Bravissimo! …
I’m sure most readers are aware that the President of the United States went on an unhinged rant against the wind energy industry recently which, as could have been predicted, was littered with untruths.
As we frequently discuss here, island nations are often good candidates for flavors of renewable energy that have only niche applications, insofar as the alternatives are both dirty and expensive.
