I keep meaning to take an extra day during one of my excursions to the East Coast and hang out with Brian McGowan, hands-on renewable energy guy extraordinaire, who lives near Philadelphia. Pictured left is a wall of his garage; …
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A friend writes: Happy 4th of July! I was at a coffee shop yesterday, and they had all these European magazines. I came across an article: THIS ‘TREE’ GENERATES ENOUGH ELECTRICITY TO HEAT YOUR APARTMENT. I thought you’d enjoy …
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I’ve been having a discussion with an inventor of a product in the “small wind” energy space (i.e., anything under 100KW) whose website is linked above. He had asked my advice about his concept, which is summarized as follows: The …
A conservative reader who has displayed a circumspect attitude towards renewable energy notes: Wind, Solar, Wave, Bio-fuels, Geo-thermal, and lots of other alternate energy technologies, are valid subjects for research. I urge him to keep in mind that wind is …
It’s highly unlikely that anyone anywhere will ever forget the great Frederic Chopin and the incredible music for the piano that he left us. It’s even less likely that anyone in Poland will ever forget him. I was in Warsaw …
Because I watch so little commercial television, I tend not to see advertisements—even the good ones, like this piece for Siemens and the success they’re having with wind energy in our (quite breezy) state of Iowa. Until now, Iowa was …
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The folks who argue that wind energy is a bad thing have a very tough challenge, considering all the fossil fuels being replaced and all the jobs (50,000 in the U.S. in 2013) that the industry provides. Somehow, however, none …
If we have any heavyweights in fluid dynamics out there who would like to comment on this concept, I would appreciate it. It’s a bladeless wind turbine, one that captures energy from the moving air by shaking rather than turning. …
I’m not certain we’ll ever see off-shore wind here surrounding the U.S., but it certainly is taking hold in Europe. It’s a shame that we Americans are loathe to participate here, since the potential for inexpensive power from this source is a …
Here’s the note I dictated into my phone this morning when I sat up in bed a few minutes pre-dawn and went through the features stories at RenewableEnergyWorld. I wrote, “This story on Azerbaijan is typical of ‘news coverage’ of things …
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