We’d all like to know: What does the future of energy look like? In large measure, it’s a function of what happens with nuclear.
Category: Wind Energy
How Would-be Inventors Lose Credibility
Here’s an email I just received from a Greek citizen now living in China, who writes: After 15 years of scientific research I completed the construction of a wind turbine model with an extremely high efficiency and operation at very low …
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How Much Do Solar and Wind Require Natural Gas Backup?
As I’m mentioned, I’m a part of a pro-nuke online community that has a strange antipathy toward renewables. One might think that proponents of one low-carbon energy solution would respect those of another, but not in this case. They offer …
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Lots To Like About OffShore Wind, But….
Here’s an article suggesting: “We could power the whole of human civilization with wind turbines in the open sea.” Perhaps we need to define what we mean by “could.”
When You’re Carrying a BIG Wind Turbine Blade, There’s No Such Thing as a LITTLE Problem
To get a sense for what it’s like trucking a 189-foot-long wind turbine blade onto a remote site with non-optimum road conditions, I offer you the video below. It made me smile, and I hope it does the same for …
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Next-Gen Concepts in Offshore Wind
When it comes to offshore wind, there are a number of important ideas afloat, if you’ll pardon the pun. Most of the concepts that will be implemented in the near-term are based on seabed mounting, and likely, most of them …
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A Renewable Energy Product Whose Total Available Market Is …. Nonexistent
Here’s a wind energy product that literally nobody could possibly need, which, as far as I am aware makes this unique. First, we need to eliminate anyone with access to the grid. Then let’s get rid of anyone anywhere near …
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Renewable Energy Products that Cause Embarrassment To the Industry
One of the challenges facing solar and wind energy is capacity factor, i.e. the ratio of the total energy generated by a device to the total energy that it’s potentially capable of generating (multiplied by 100, to make a percentage). …
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Russia Might Be Doing Something in Wind Energy–Or Maybe Not
Though he was only a couple of years out of college when I was introduced to Stephen Lacey (pictured) in 2009, he had already become a senior staff writer at the prestigious website RenewableEnergyWorld.com, and had learned essentially everything there …
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An Additional Two Gigawatts of Wind Energy in Oklahoma…But It Gets Even Better
From this article: GE Renewable Energy and Invenergy just announced that Oklahoma will soon be home to the largest wind farm in the U.S., the Wind Catcher project, which will have a capacity of 2,000 MW.
