When you and I were young, if someone said that Canada was south of the United States, or that vast numbers of penguins inhabited our Great Plains, they wouldn’t have been taken too seriously. Now, truth has ceased to matter …
Category: Wind Energy
German Engineering and Small Wind
At left we have something that illustrates why small wind is a concept in renewable energy that was abandoned about 15 years ago. Germans are respected around the world for the quality of their engineering. That’s good if you’re buying …
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Concept in Small Wind
Here’s a concept in small wind for readers to check out. A few points: It’s not new. A few years ago, there was a nearly identical idea that came and went, when investors figured out that this concept, as all …
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Small, Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs)
In preparation for my first book, “Renewable Energy – Facts and Fantasies,” I interviewed Ray Lane, then managing partner of Kleiner Perkins, one of the world’s great venture capital firms, who told me about his stance with his prospects, “You …
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Germany Cranks Up the Volume on Renewable Energy
Germany finds itself in a unique position among the countries of the world, in that it’s gotten rid of both coal and nuclear and now depends quite heavily on renewables. Germany is the world’s third largest economy, behind the United …
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More Crap re: Renewable Energy Breakthroughs
Obviously, this is pure crap. 1) Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) are less efficient than their horizontal counterparts. More importantly: 2) Wind turbines are not cited in areas with buildings that block wind currents. 3) Cities are not built in …
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Wind Energy
On a post of this subject, a reader notes: There is nothing clean about wind turbines. Wow. Didn’t know that. To keep this simple, I would simply say: A) wind energy is about 9% of the total grid-mix in the …
The Case for Tiny Wind (or Hydro) Turbines
A proponent of the wind turbine shown at left writes: I commented this 6 year’s ago . It is so simple even if you put in small stream 1 000 000 small turbines like this one, you will have more …
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Understanding Claims on Wind Energy
The three-bladed wind turbines we see all over the world extract about 90% of the theoretically available kinetic energy from the air that moves through them. A 60% would violate the laws of physics. Of course, these people are not …
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Molten Salt Energy Storage
Though there’s nothing theoretically impossible about the story at left, I doubt it’s true. That’s because Denmark has a superabundance of renewable energy due to its phenomenal wind resources. When it has too much for its own consumption, it sells …
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