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Both China and Africa have incredibly ambitious plans for massive energy projects sourced from the sun or wind, but India may beat them to the punch with the colossal project they have in the works. A consortium has formed between Airvoice Group and Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam to build a 13 GW green energy plant [...]
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Turning The Tide To A Well Lit Tomorrow on the Highway
As far as practical renewable energy concepts go, these wind-powered highway lights are pretty elegant. And from my layman’s perspective, they seem to be practical and realistic. I like ‘em!
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Norway is blowing away other countries in wind power.
Norway already boasts the world’s first floating wind turbine, and is apparently the windiest coastline in Europe, making it perfect for even more turbines. Or a turbine city, like On Office’s proposal which shows a stunning vision of the future.The Turbine City concept from the architectural firm [...]
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Earth Centre
The Windside Wind Turbine is a vertical wind turbine based on sailing engineering principles. The turbine rotor is rotated by two spiral-formed vanes. First tests were made in Southern Finland in both inland and marine environments. Laboratory wind tunnel tests were also made. For over twenty years Windside have continued to research, test and [...]
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Power Flower
Small-scale wind has been taking a beating lately, with local zoning ordinances throughout the United States that fly in the face of the technology. People confuse small wind power in residential areas with big, commercial blades, and have concerns about noise and aesthetics, mostly. An art project could solve that.
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Researchers merged meteorological and wind-turbine modeling to map China’s wind-energy potential. Potential output of 1.5 MW wind turbines is shown as a percentage of maximum output over time.
China has doubled its installed wind power capacity every year for the past five, and is on pace this year to supplant the Unied States as the world’s [...]
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Wind farm
Aggressive investments in 2008 helped the United States surpass Germany to become the world’s leader in wind power, according to a report recently released by the U.S. Department of Energy.
