Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government’s legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development. He had battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project (a total of 11 turbines) before …
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Here’s a good investment of six minutes of your time; it’s a video on how wind turbines are made. What I didn’t understand until just now is the technology and workmanship that goes into creating the foundation such that the …
There is a reason that wind turbines have long blades: the power they generate is proportional to the area they sweep, and, since the area of a circle is pi times the square of its radius, bigger means much better.
My colleague Bill Moore of EV World and EVisioneer2020 writes from his home in Omaha, Nebraska, “(Here’s the) wind power contribution to the Southwest Power Pool this morning.” (See below.)
Here’s an amusing claim: “New design on 250кw turbine (shown here) we are installing in Rep. Of Georgia.” No you’re not. Power is proportional to swept area. The device has approximately the same profile as the side of a car, …
Here’s an update on the world’s largest wind project, a 1.2 GW offshore wind farm covering about 250 square miles. To be completed in 2020, it’s located 75 miles off the U.K.’s Yorkshire Coast in the North Sea.
There are so many enormously positive developments in our civilization it’s hard to count them. As noted, the second quarter of 2019 saw record sales of wind turbines to project developers, which surprised those who had thought that the industry …
There are people who wanted to see the fastest possible integration of wind energy into the grid-mix. There are also people who drink Budweiser. If asked, I would have said that the intersection of those two sets was fairly small. …
Budweiser: Made from Water, Barley, Hops….and Wind Energy Read More »
Here’s an article on Scotland’s bumper crop of wind energy. In the last six months they’ve produced twice as much as the residential market needed, and they’re headed for a total of 50% renewables by 2030.
Ever considered the unrelenting power of the wind? We’ve all seen the destructive nature of the elements. But what if we were able to harness their might for our own ends? Well, thankfully we can.
