Although I’m bearish on small wind generally, I have to say that I’m impressed with the work that my friend Dan Bates, CEO of WindStream Technologies, has done in this space; I hope you’ll check out the video linked below. …
Category: Wind Energy
No Surprise Here, Wind Turbine Cost-Effectiveness Continues to Improve
2GreenEnergy mega-supporter Gary Tulie provided a major contribution to my last book (Bullish on Renewable Energy – 14 Reasons that Clean Energy Investors Can’t Lose), where he wrote several terrific pages on the optimization of wind turbines, i.e., how big …
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Here’s Why Small Wind Is a Failure
The course of technological progress isn’t always represented by a positive slope, and in the case of renewable energy there are most definitely a few examples of retrograde motion. The poster child for all this is small wind, meaning devices …
From Guest Blogger Lizzie Weakly: Solar vs. Wind–Which Generates More Power?
With the population growing and pollution spreading, it’s becoming more important for people to have concerns about the environment. Green initiatives are still in motion, so efforts are being made to preserve the planet and its resources. For example, renewable …
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Wind Energy Giant Vestas Has Grand Vision for the Future
Here’s the president of Vestas Americas, Chris Brown, speaking to a large audience at WINDPOWER 2016. An excerpt: Sustainability is the next chapter in human progress, and the key is making renewable technology economic.
Breakthrough in Wind Energy?
It’s a shame when total BS is represented as some sort of technology breakthrough. Here’s a development in wind power that couldn’t possibly work as advertised.
Wind and Solar Are Variable Resources, But What Does That Imply About the Need for Back-up Power?
Let me reiterate what I just wrote in a comment: The notion that incremental solar and wind plants require significant amounts of additional backup from fossil fuel plants is a myth. This is explained very nicely in the article linked above. …
News Flash: New Concepts in Renewable Energy Need To Offer Improvements Over What We Have Today
Part of my career involves looking at new ideas in clean energy, which enables (forces?) me to look at some really wild stuff that couldn’t possibly work. The inventor of this concept in wind energy called the other day to explain …
The PTC (Production Tax Credit) for Wind Energy
A reader comments on my post on the alarming report predicting the future of fossil fuels and renewable energy, “Regarding your comment about the cost of wind (which is as low $0.02 per kWh in some rare circumstances), sounds like time …
Breakthrough in Wind Energy?
A colleague in England, Gary Tulie, sent me this concept for extracting the energy from wind without a turbine. Here’s our conversation: Craig: Thanks for this, but aren’t you extremely skeptical? The wind blows charged particles apart from one another? …
