About once a month, I see a concept for a wind turbine that contemplates some sort of shroud to catch and funnel more wind through a turbine at higher speeds. In principle, there is no problem with such ideas, other …
Category: Wind Energy
Wind Power Can Help Bring Education to Off-grid Populations in the Developing World
Regular reader and terrific human being retired M.D. Larry Dobson sent me this “TED Talk” on online education, in which the speaker emphasizes how incredibly difficult it is for impoverished people in developing nations to acquire the knowledge and skills required …
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Two Events On Wind Energy
I’m looking forward to two events down in Santa Barbara this afternoon. First, it’s lunch with Jim Winsayer, CEO of Continental Wind Power, soon to be a 2GreenEnergy marketing services client. I really love what these guys are doing in …
Distributed Generation and Electric Vehicles
There are those who argue against the validity of the electric vehicle movement, on the basis that, in most cases in the US, putting additional load on the grid means burning more coal. Yet regardless of the extent to which …
How Ugly Are Wind Turbines?
My wife and I had dinner last night with fine friends, a married couple who never disappoint us with their conversation; they’re both extremely well-rounded and intelligent people who care deeply about the plight of their fellow travelers here on …
Notes on the 30th Modern Olympic Games
In a few hours, we’ll bid so long to another summer Olympics. I always hate to say goodbye; I sorely miss them when they’re gone. The concept of being that good at anything is so impressive to me; I have …
Life-Cycle Analysis and Wind Power
I heard a really good talk about lifecycle analysis (LCA) yesterday that took wind energy as an example, and examined the overall ecological footprint associated with an individual large turbine. On average, about 7.8 megawatt-hours of energy goes into extracting the …
Getting My Hands on a Micro-Wind Breakthrough
I had a wonderful conversation with WindStream CEO Dan Bates this morning at his home in Manhattan Beach,CA, during which I actually touched this unique micro-wind product, and came to understand the reasoning behind a great number of its cooler …
Windstream — Affordable Micro-Wind At Last
Here is our webinar for July, in which I interviewed Dan Bates, CEO of WindStream, a company with an exciting advancement in micro-wind. I begin by taking a step back from wind power, and micro-wind in particular, and noting that …
Micro-wind: Topic of Today's Webinar
I’m looking forward to today’s webinar on micro-wind. Personally, I’m a big believer in the subject, and I came across a few people in the last few days who think micro-wind is poised to explode in the next six months. …
