On a post of this subject, a reader notes: There is nothing clean about wind turbines. Wow. Didn’t know that. To keep this simple, I would simply say: A) wind energy is about 9% of the total grid-mix in the …
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Trump, a “Wrecking Ball for the Climate,” Goes Head-to-Head Against Wind Energy
I just caught a TV news segment on the Trump administration’s attempt to eliminate wind energy from our grid mix. It’s possible that the reason behind this is more complicated than it appears, but we all need to take the …
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Flower Turbines Looking for More Investors
Other than common sense, there is nothing that prohibits investors from pumping cash into companies like Flower Turbines, that one day, owners claim, will build and sell devices that capture small amounts of wind energy. In fact, until about a …
Wind Harvest
If you’ve ever wondered how the physicists who have been studying how to extract the most energy out of the wind for the last three hundred years, whose work has been greatly accelerated in the last few decades, these people …
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Wind Tree
If you want one of these “wind trees” for your back yard because you find them attractive, that’s up to you. If you think they could represent a cost-effective way to generate electricity, you’re completely incorrect.
New Approach for Medium-Speed Wind
Here’s a business plan from a team of engineers in the wind energy space. I have my reservations, but I’ll keep them to myself, and simply ask for comments.
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Are Wind Turbines Causing Birth Defects in Portuguese Horses? Er, No, But Does That Matter?
Here’s an article from NPR that provides a partial explanation for the slow adoption of wind energy in the U.S.: misinformation. Americans seem to have a voracious appetite for BS, regardless of the subject matter, and that hunger is amplified …
Shine: A Portable Wind Energy Charging Unit, An Idea Straight Out of Hell
Over the 12 years that 2GreenEnergy has been beating the bushes for new concepts in clean energy, we’ve introduced readers to countless bad ideas, suggesting, of course, that they be avoided. There are many devices that help campers charge their …
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Pros and Cons of Renewable Energy
Some of the short videos on the pros and cons of renewable energy that I made back in 2012 have gotten a decent number of views; the one below has over 166K. Unfortunately, most of these people aren’t exactly the …
Renewable Energy in Scotland
The meme here is a reminder that the bagpipe is one of the best tools for social distancing. Kidding aside, as a result of its heavy commitment to renewable energy, wind in particular, Scotland is generating twice as much power …
