There’s an enduring myth related to wind energy and nuclear energy that needs to be put to bed. That myth is that only nuclear can be scaled to sufficient capacity to reduce the impacts of global warming, and that wind energy is much less scalable so it should be ignored. … [continued]
Over the past several years, the Sheerwind Invelox ducted turbine has managed to rack up a couple of million in grants and other investments according to reports and has built two small prototypes. According to its press releases it has a New Zealand distributor and a couple of pilot projects targeted for Dubai and Minnesota. It … [continued]
Recently energy towers have been back in the hype cycle, specifically the misnamed Solar Wind Energy Tower. How do they stand up to scrutiny? Well, there are numerous good reasons why they don’t appear to make much sense, but there’s one overwhelming piece of evidence that appears at the bottom … [continued]
Altaeros and their airborne blimp wind generator have benefited from a reasonable amount of press over the past few weeks. They had asked CleanTechnica to provide coverage as well, but when pressed for more details on the technology, were unwilling to provide them. The airborne wind energy space was given overview … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Today the very big technical news for me is dual-doppler meteorology radar applied to create very high precision wind maps of operational wind farms. Brian Hirth of the Texas Tech University and his team have applied technology typically used for high-accuracy real time imaging … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Meredith MacDonald kicks off this day’s update. She’s a wind turbine deployment tech in Ontario. She worked night shift as a security guard contracted to keep an eye on local wind farms at night during construction. She loved wind energy so much she … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Las Vegas isn’t exactly a familiar haunt for me, but I’ve been here several times for conferences (and one wedding). I had seen the wine angel in the Mandalay Bay floating up in her harness beside the several story wine cellar a few … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. Wind farms reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the overall electrical grid on close to a 1:1 basis. Typical grids produce 800 g of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) per KWh generated by their mixes of fossil, nuclear and renewable generation, and wind energy displaces virtually all of … [continued]
Originally published on Energy & Policy Institute. WINDPOWER 2014 is upon me, and I’m revved up to learn more and make excellent contacts. I’ll be live-Tweeting from @barnardwind and live-FB updating from /barnardonwind, both using the hashtag #WINDPOWER2014, so look for that too. Daily blogs will be posted on the E&PI … [continued]
UGE has taken an excellent and necessary step, one most small wind turbine manufacturers never do: they have had independent certification of one of their devices performed. A wholly praising article was published in CleanTechnica on April 22, 2014, just a couple of days before this article. The article, as with … [continued]
