A reader who claims to have a great improvement in wind-turbine design on a per-kW basis sent me a fairly detailed treatment of his invention. I respond: Thanks for this very interesting analysis. Here’s the problem, to stay with your …
Category: Wind Energy
Dow Chemical Helps To Integrate Wind Energy Further Into Our Grid Mix
Here’s a story that illustrates my main contention about renewable energy: the good guys have already won this war; now it’s time to get the casualties off the battlefield and move on with our lives. Dow Chemical Company’s decision to …
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Understanding “Baseload Power” and Debunking the Myths that Surround It
Here’s an all-too-typical comment I received recently, which I present here to clarify an important point about variable energy resources, including wind and solar energy, and to clean up a common misunderstanding: Wind power and solar, produce variable amounts of …
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From Guest Blogger Pano: Wind Farms for Renewable Energy: Is It Worth Investing in for the UK?
The UK Government has just backed £315 million worth of renewable energy projects and earlier this year it was announced that the UK is on track to hit our green targets. So it’s evident that providing a sustainable energy source …
Environmental Benefits of Wind
I’m part of a large email group that promotes the concept of “advanced nuclear.” Most of these people are extremely well-informed, intelligent, and kind people. Some, however, have a bizarre hatred for renewables, like the guy who started this conversation: …
Wind Energy Resources Vary According to Geography
This morning I awoke to: Hi, my name is Josh Sowers and I’m a senior at Marais des Cygnes Valley high school (in Kansas). I am writing a essay on wind power and was wondering if I could ask a …
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Want To Be a Wind Farm Operator?
No one understood this when I was a kid, but from one person to the next, there are many different preferred learning styles, and identifying the right one can make an appreciable difference in a person’s ability to absorb new …
More on High-Altitude Wind
I’ve been in touch with the fellow in Italy I mentioned earlier on my piece about high-altitude wind power, in which I expressed concern that the levelized cost of energy for his concept (KiteGen) wouldn’t be competitive with other energy …
Take a COOL Guess – the Fun Quiz on Clean Energy. Today’s Topic: Efficiency in Wind Turbines
Question: In physics, the Betz Limit is the top theoretic percentage of kinetic energy that can be extracted from a moving fluid, e.g., wind. It’s based on the fact that, if you took it all, i.e., stopped the wind dead, …
HAWP – High-Altitude Wind Power
We don’t hear as much about high-altitude wind as we did a few years ago, though the subject has not completely disappeared. There is no doubt that the wind resources a thousand feet or so above the Earth’s surface are …
