This article ostensibly helps the consumer make the right decision concerning a home wind turbine. Here’s the problem: the concept of small wind, i.e., wind products that generate amounts of electricity suitable for residential use, is not workable. Various attempts …
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Best Home Wind Turbines
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Offshore Wind Coming Along Nicely
Virginia’s Dominion Energy has filed construction and operations plans to build a 2.64 GW offshore wind project, located 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach, to be completed in 2026. The project will make use of Dominion’s 12 MW …
Are Wind Turbines Burning Money?
There’s a report being passed around social media to the effect that the cost of fires in wind turbines could be as high as $9 million. Although I have no way to verify this, I can point out that there …
Comparing Coal Plants and Wind Turbines
Let’s begin with Poe’s law, which is an “adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken …
Take a Cool Guess—The Fun Quiz on Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Today’s Topic: Wind Turbine Placement
Question: There are at least three central problems with the idea put forth here, i.e., installing wind turbines under bridges. What are they? Answer: Can be found at Clean Energy Answers. Relevance: A great deal of thought goes into siting …
Wind Energy Physics Quiz
Here’s a video that will test your understanding of physics, if you don’t have a 5th or 6th grade education. It’s a wind turbine on a kite powered by eight motors that push the device into and through the wind …
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Could This Be the Safest, Most Powerful Wind Turbine in the World?
Here’s a short video on a new wind turbine concept. A breakthrough? Ahhh…..no. This is bulls***, for three main reasons. a) Wind power is a function of the area of the turbine. Tiny turbines necessarily generate tiny amounts of power.
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Kitepower? Ahhhhh….No
Occasionally I like to apply some mathematics to claims that are made about renewable energy technology. Pictured here is something called Kitepower, another variation on the theme that we’ve seen so many times over the years.
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Portable Wind Turbine
Campers in remote areas can charge their cell phone with this portable wind turbine. Two points: 1) On mountaintops, as shown in the video, this will work, but not in a place of low/no wind, like forests. 2) This competes …
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Converting the Entirety of Americans’ Energy Use to Wind
A reader asks: How many windmills would we need per person to replace fossil fuels? How much room would this take up? In the United States, we consume 5.4 terawatts (5.4 * 1012 Watts). The average wind turbine is a …
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