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900 Foot Offshore Wind Turbine Mimics Spinning Sycamore Seeds (Video)
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The mantra of offshore wind turbine design seems to be "Bigger! Bigger!" in order to get more power out of single turbines. But going hand in hand with making turbines bigger is that they become heavier.
1,550 MW Wind Farm, World's Current Largest, Breaks Ground in Mojave, California
Ned Farquhar, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, addresses the guests at Terra-Gen Power's ground breaking ceremony for Alta Wind Energy Center in Mojave, California.
Google Energy Signs 20-Year, 114 MW Wind Power Contract
Photo: Google Blog, logo added by Michael G.R.
Part of Google's Goal of Being Carbon-Neutral
Google Energy, a subsidiary of Google that was created to give the company the ability to buy power on the wholesale market, has just inked a 20-year deal to buy 114 megawatts of power from the NextEra Energy Resou
New Renewable Energy Installations in US & Europe Continue to Outpace Fossil Fuels
photo: Petter Palander via flickr
Here's a bit of good news about the slow transition away from oil and fossil fuels: Reports from UNEP and Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century show that in 2009, for the second year in a row, more new renewable en
Bizarre Wind-Powered Car Travels Downwind Faster than Wind (Video)
Image credit: FasterThanTheWind.org
I am not sure if this one is awesome, pointless, or a bit of both.
It turns out that there is a huge debate in certain circles as to whether it is possible to create a purely wind-powered vehicle that can travel directly downwind, faster than the wind itself.
Why Small-Scale Wind Turbines Make Sense in Rural India, But Not So Much in Indiana
photo: Ryan Somma via flickr
A number of sources have outlined new plans of India's Tata Power Company to help electrify rural India through deployment of small-scale wind turb
Germany Targets 100% Renewable Electricity by 2050?
Image credit: Recharge News
Germany is already a global leader in solar power, but that's just a start as far as Germans are concerned.
Hawaii Plans Billion Dollar Undersea Cable to Bring Wind Power to Oahu
photo: tata_aka_T via flickr
Being pretty much smack dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's no great secret that Hawaii is utterly dependent on imported energy.
Great Lakes Offshore Wind Farms Already Face NIMBY Opposition, Just Like Those in Saltwater
photo: Martin Pettitt via flickr
Developing offshore wind farms on the Great Lakes has been touted as an overlooked resource in a number of studies and indeed a few projects are in the planning stages.
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