Last year Michigan put up their first onshore wind farm. Now, it looks like wind power will go offshore in the Saginaw Bay area of Lake Huron. I’ve talked before about wind turbines heading for open water in Norway and perhaps even off the East Coast.
But, now the windy Great Lakes region may start to [...]
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Well, not long after T. Boone Pickens announced his plan to put up wind turbines from the Texas panhandle all the way to the Canadian border, did Rockport, Missouri announce that it is now the first 100-percent wind powered city in America.
Of course, it helps that Rockport only has 1,300 residents and only four wind [...]
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A non-turbine wind generator is shown in this video as a solution to third world nations interested in small scale power. Currently, wind turbines are based primarily on either a two or three blade design that turns a turbine to generate electricity.
The non-turbine wind generator is based upon the flutter of long strands of kite [...]
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Back in March, Dutch company Blue H Technologies announced that they intend to install the first U. S. floating deep water wind farm off of Martha’s Vineyard. The 420 MW wind farm will be constructed mostly on land and then floated out into position for the final work. This method of construction lessens the ecological [...]
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I’ve talked about a couple of residential wind turbines in the past such as the MagLev and the Helix. Both of these are fine units. But, now I’d like to talk about the Air-X residential wind turbine that helps homeowners save energy while shelling out only a few hundred dollars.
Solar is another way to go [...]
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The Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS) is a tethered helium balloon device that generates power from the wind. The Magenn is a sizable blimp with rotating blades that rotates along its horizontal axis in response to wind energy.
Like other similar devices, the electrical current that is generated travels down the tethering lines to a transformer [...]
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The Selsam Superturbine is an offshore concept that harnesses wind power while at sea to produce energy. Some of the highlights of the Selsam Superturbine include a direct drive generator, no transmission of power, self-aiming, floats, tilts, moves easily, serviced at sea or easily moved ashore for servicing.
Groovy Green points out that the Selsam Superturbine [...]
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Texas and Illinois, who earlier this year competed for the FutureGen clean coal prototype power plant are turning to other green energy solutions to help clean up their states. Last week I had talked about how wind farm technicians are needed in several states because turbines are popping up faster than employees.
Now, General Electric has [...]
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Norwegian wind turbine manufacturer Sway has decided to test its sea legs and put its product many miles offshore. The problem with wind turbines has been traditionally, the “not in my backyard” syndrome, where people may like the idea of them for generating renewable energy, but they don’t want to have to look at them.
Sway [...]
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There is more than one way to harness wind energy as Chetwood and Associates architectural firm is quick to point out. While other manufacturers are building multi-bladed wind turbines or tilting at windmills, Chetwood is in the process of building a wind dam.
The Chetwood Wind Dam Project is being developed for a place in North-Western [...]
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