wind power

How To Store Wind Power: Pump It Into A Big Underwater Balloon

October 13, 2011

Testing Hydrostor model, University of Windsor

Tyler Hamilton recently wrote Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors and their Relentless Pursuit of Clean Energy, and while the book may be out, he keeps looking for those crazy ideas that might change ever…

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Hybrid Wind-Solar System to Provide More Constant, Reliable Clean Energy

October 12, 2011

Image credit: ATR

One of the most common criticisms you hear from clean energy naysayers is that renewables suffer from too much variability. But from the world’s first 24/7 solar power plant to large-scale energy storage, that problem is now being t…

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Solar & Wind Could Power All Of US By 2026

October 11, 2011

Photo: david.nikonvscanon, Flickr, CC BY

The American public’s relationship with clean energy is complicated: Polls consistently show that we overwhelmingly want more of it. The majority of Americans want the government to invest in clean power resea…

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1 Gigawatt New England Offshore Wind Farm Inches Forward – Production Could Begin in 2016

October 11, 2011

photo: m.prinke/CC BY SA

A massive new offshore wind power project, to be located in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, has taken a procedural step forward. Plans for the 1 GW Deepwater Wind Energy Center, being developed by Deepwater Wind, have officia…

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Opposition to Vermont Wind Farm Comes From Former Wildlife Department Commissioner

September 29, 2011

Simulation of a section of the project, from 2.7 miles away: Kingdom Community Wind

Some well spoken and well meaning opposition to a wind power project in northeastern Vermont today in the New York Times. At issue is whether the clean electricity th…

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Wind Turbine Noise May Annoy But Causes No Serious Health Problems, New Study Says

September 27, 2011

photo: Penny Higgins/CC BY SA

This is perhaps not the final word on so-called wind turbine syndrome, but it is one of them. New research published in Environmental Research Letters looked into the effect of low frequency noise from wind turbines on p…

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Shanghai Park’s Pavilions Are Wind-Powered Urban Leisure Spots

September 22, 2011

Photos: Taranta Creations

Wind-powered karaoke? Only in Shanghai would such a thing exist. These colourful pavilions were initially built as an art installation — one of many themed pavilions in a new waterfront park created for Shanghai’s 2010 World…

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990 MW Proposed Nevada Wind Farm Would Be Largest In US & State’s First

September 20, 2011

What may be Nevada’s first wind farm would also be the largest in the United States. Proposed by a subsidiary of Good Energies, the 990 MW project would consist of 350 turbines, and cost up to $1.5 billion, including the necessary access roads and tr…

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Colorado Wind Power Company to Compete With Fossil Fuel Prices

September 14, 2011

Image: Patrick Finnegan via flickr

Boulder Wind Power has come up with a turbine design that it says can produce electricity at or below $0.04 per kilowatt-hour, allowing it to compete directly with fossil fuel-based power. What sets the design apar…

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Here’s Why the US Has One-Fourth the Renewable Energy of Germany: Inconsistent Policy

September 7, 2011

photo: James/CC BY-SA

Over at Climate Progress, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he’s “not confident” that Congress will be able to extend the production tax credit for the wind power industry, due to a members of Congress “making a concerted e…

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