A friend sent me a long and scathing attack on the wind energy industry and writes: “From friends in Connecticut—This has a lot of right wing “anti-green” rhetoric, but how much is factual?” Thanks very much. Good to hear from …
Category: Wind Energy
Is the Wind Energy Industry a Scam?
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From Guest Blogger Tina Samuels: Which States are Getting Wind Energy Right?
According to the American Wind Energy Association, the last quarter of 2012 brought the total wind installations for 2012 to 13,131 megawatts of power. This influx of new power extends the total of cumulative wind capacity for the United States …
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Looking for a Renewable Energy Solution on Jamaica
I had a pleasant surprise yesterday, when an old friend from my wife’s horse-breeding business (in fact, the very first person who ever bought a horse from us) unexpectedly contacted me on 2GreenEnergy. He’s an affluent Jamaican who was looking …
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Tagged with: business, energy, Jamaica, kiloWatt-hour, renewable, Renewable Energy, sustainable energy, technology
From Guest Blogger Heather Legg: Is Wind Energy Getting Blown Away?
Wind energy – maybe one thinks of old wooden windmills and tulips when they think of wind energy, but reality shows new state of the art wind turbines that have the capacity to power around 250 homes from a single …
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Cute Little Wind Turbine on North Carolina's Outer Banks
My mother and I spent a wonderful day together on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, our destination for the wedding of my eldest nephew, and the eldest of Mom’s five grandchildren. Our task for the day was to find …
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Tagged with: Coastal, North Carolina, Outer Bank, Outer Banks of North Carolina, United States, wind farm, wind power, wind turbine
Denmark: The Power of Feed-in Tariffs
Denmark is held up as one of the great success stories when it comes to wind power – and it is. Half of Denmark’s electricity consumption will be generated by wind power in just seven years time. But Denmark has other …
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Trip North to See Xzeres, Important Player In Small Wind
I’m on my way to Portland, OR this morning to do a marketing needs assessment for Xzeres, an important player in small wind (anything under 200 kilowatts). This is a beleaguered industry if there ever were one; there have been …
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Comparing Off-Shore Wind and Nuclear Energy
Those keeping track of the Atlantic Wind Connection and its dreams to build out 60 gigawatts of off-shore wind in the shallow waters off the mid-Atlantic coast will want to check out this article. The analysis suggests that the cost …
From Machine Design: New Device for Extracting Energy from Wind
Here’s a renewable energy idea that frequent commenter Tim Kingston sent me. It doesn’t seem reasonable, but I thought I’d ask the physicists out there to comment. It’s a device that emits tiny droplets of water from electrical conductors (copper …
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From Guest Blogger Tina Samuels: Wind Energy Isn't All Hot Air
Confused about some of the facts on wind energy? Does it work as well as they say? There are tremendous benefits for having wind energy, and here are some of the top facts on the productivity of it. Number One …
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