Energy – Wind


World’s Largest Floating Windfarm Gets Green Light in Scotland

Source: theguardian.com Published: November 2, 2015 Construction on the UK’s first floating offshore windfarm is to begin in 2016. Photograph: Øyvind Hagen / Statoil ASA Hywind Scotland project will see deployment of five floating turbines off coast of Peterhead,...

89 Year Old Man Develops Bladeless Bird-Friendly Wind Turbine

Source: offgridquest.com Published: March 25, 2015 © Catching Wind Power The potential damage to bird and bat populations by large wind turbines is often used as an argument against more wind power installations, and serves as great fodder for comments here when we...

Spanish Streetlight Powered by The Sun and The Wind

Source: newatlas.com Published: January 20, 2015 The UPC/Eolgreen streetlights incorporate both solar panels and a wind turbine (Photo: Eolgreen) By Ben Coxworth If you’re trying to save power, you generally don’t leave your lights on all night. With a few...

Green-Energy Inspiration Off the Coast of Denmark

Source: nytimes.com Published: January 17, 2015  By Diane Cardwell Before dawn one morning in October, a handful of Americans gathered at a lonely pier on Samso, a small Danish island about four hours from Copenhagen. Bundled in layers of fleece and wool, the...

The Solar Wind Downdraft Tower

Source: solarwindenergytower.com Published: July 2, 2014 Solar Wind Energy Tower, Inc. is the innovator and creator behind the only hybrid solar-wind technology in the market today. Formerly known as Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc., the simplicity of Solar Wind Energy’s...

William and the Windmill

Source: upworthy.com Published: July 3, 2013 Watch this teenage MacGyver fight famine in Africa with only a picture, junk scraps, and a dream.  If this guy can build a renewable energy source with scraps, what’s stopping a huge country like America? We have the...