By John on January 6, 2010
Frequently Asked Questions When Considering Using Wind Power for your Home
Due to the high cost of utility usage today coupled with the concerns of our environment by energy waste and pollution, many people around the world are taking a closer look into renewable energy solutions. One of the most popular topics on [...]
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By John on December 21, 2009
Is a wind power system at home worth the energy? Can you cut your costs to the utility company? Is the noise those blades make spinning in the wind, possibly knocking birds out of the sky and the arguments over zoning laws regarding the height of your turbine tower going to take more energy from [...]
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By John on November 27, 2009
Home Wind Power: No More Energy Bills to Pay! Read on to Learn More
Over the past years, most people never considered wind power as a serious source of generating energy and electricity, that too, for domestic purposes. In fact, wind was perceived as just another natural phenomenon with very limited usage in life. People generally [...]
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By John on June 22, 2009
The sky might literally be the limit for wind power — rotors spinning miles high could help supply electricity worldwide.
“There is a huge amount of energy available in high-altitude winds,” said researcher Ken Caldeira at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, Calif. “These winds blow much more strongly and steadily than near-surface [...]
Posted in Wind | Tagged electricity, high altitude, jet stream winds, ken caldeira, southern australia, wind energy, wind power, wind turbines
By John on May 19, 2009
First Commercial-Scale Urban Wind Power System for Rooftop Use. Customers With Small Footprints, Moderate Wind Can Expect Short Payback.
Green Energy Technologies LLC, a privately held company founded in 2006, announces the launch of WindCube(R), a 60kW rooftop wind turbine designed for on-site power generation by commercial and industrial power users in urban and suburban locations. [...]
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By John on May 12, 2009
As soaring oil prices and greenhouse gas emissions fuel the search for cheaper and cleaner sources of energy, a Japanese aerospace manufacturer may have found the right stuff for a solution. It’s a windmill you can call your very own. Yokohama-based aerospace manufacturer, Nippi Corporation, has developed a revolutionary 20 kW wind turbine power generation [...]
Posted in Wind | Tagged renewable energy source, vertical axis wind turbine, wind energy, wind power, wind turbine power
By John on May 4, 2009
Technological advancements in wind energy efficiency have generally come incrementally and usually made via a process of increasingly large wind turbine blades. Put simply, the model has been: longer blades = more output per turbine.
But that pattern of incremental improvements may be a thing of the past if Leviathan Energy has anything to say about [...]
Posted in Wind | Tagged energy efficiency, renewable energy, turbine blades, wind energy
By John on March 31, 2009
For those naysayers who doubt that Cape Wind can produce the equivalent of 75 percent of the Cape’s electricity, I have to agree that that figure is not exact. Actually, Cape Wind could provide the equivalent of 93 percent of the Cape’s electricity. That figure is not Jim Gordon’s–he is much too modest [...]
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By John on March 11, 2009
The Swift Wind Turbine was developed by Renewable Devices in Scotland, and is the first quiet rooftop turbine that generates electricity by harnessing the power of the wind as a cost effective energy source for home, commercial, and industrial applications. The Swift generates an of average of 1,680 watts of immediate power, and can [...]
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By John on September 21, 2008
Wind power is the harnessing and conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines.
Wind energy has been used for thousands of years – to propel sailing ships or converted into mechanical energy to pump water or grind grain. Windmills are used in many countries (such as the Netherlands) [...]
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