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Medium wind: Village-sized turbines make a contribution in Alaska Built to scale	Gar Lipow	09 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Small and medium size wind generators of about 100 KW each are playing an important role in the power supplied by the Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC) -- a non-profit customer-owned electric co-op serving 52 villages throughout interior and western Alaska. Wind power on this scale, and in these conditions, is not cheap. Unlike megawatt scale wind turbines which cost around $1,600 per KW of installed capacity, these smaller generators run around $10,000 per ins ...
Topics: Alaska, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Thomas Edison's dream: A wind generator for every house A man ahead of his times	Erik Hoffner	06 Jun 2007	Gristmill
I've always thought that Edison's notion of using DC instead of AC would've resulted in a better energy situation -- more locally produced power through cogeneration and other sources, and better storage capability. But this New York Times piece on how he worked to build an electric car, and his dream of powering every house with its own wind generator, puts him squarely ahead of his time.
Topics: cars, cogeneration, electric vehicles, energy, wind power (all these topics)

Pumped hydro energy storage A concise introduction	David Roberts	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
The great question about wind is intermittency, and the great answer is energy storage. There are a number of energy storage technologies out there; I suspect the right storage mechanism will differ from region to region. One of the most interesting storage options out there is pumped hydro. The concept is pretty simple: you build two reservoirs, one down low and one up high, connected by a pipe. In the pipe are energy-generating turbines. When you're getting excess w ...
Topics: energy, tech, wind power (all these topics)

Wind is well An insider's view of the wind industry	David Roberts	04 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Be sure to check out a fascinating post by Jerome a Paris (who helps finance wind power projects) on the state of play in the wind industry. Here's the spoiler: Anyway, the conclusions I draw from all if this are as follows: windpower is booming, and is reaching a stage where it becomes a noticeable source of electricity in a number of countries. This is not the time to stop supporting it - it's time to make the essential part of electricity producti ...
Topics: energy, wind power (all these topics)

Man wants to put wind turbines on his ailing farm	David Roberts	29 May 2007	Gristmill
Opposition from neighbors drives man to suicide. And you thought the rich whingers at Cape Wind were irksome!
Topics: energy, England, wind power (all these topics)

Wind-loss, wind-gain	Erik Hoffner	25 May 2007	Gristmill
On the heels of last week's apparent defeat of the proposed Hoosac Wind project in mountainous Western Massachusetts due to environmental (wetland) concerns, Massachusetts' new governor has put his voice behind further offshore wind projects. The timing is interesting. We already knew Governor Patrick supports Cape Wind, the final permitting for which is now up to the feds. Details are sketchy yet on what he proposes for further offshore projects, but it sounds like a ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

More fuel for the wind versus solar debate Solar is making boats go now -- take that, wind!	Adam Browning	22 May 2007	Gristmill
Wind, you think you are so badass. I tell you, solar is creeping up on you where you least expect it:
Topics: energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Climate changes the picture On a new McKibben editorial	Joseph Romm	21 May 2007	Gristmill
If this were the daily sunset you had gotten used to growing up, you would understand the hesitancy of even Bill McKibben, a renowned environmentalist, to okay wind turbines on the horizon, interfering with bird migration in order to generate electricity. However, in an opinion article in which McKibben confesses his sentiment, entitled 'One world, one problem,' he ultimately resolves: In this world, the threat to that landscape, and to those birds, come ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, climate, energy, wind power (all these topics)

Flying wind generators: maybe more than just another techno toy Neat	Gar Lipow	16 May 2007	Gristmill
World wide wind potential (using only conventional wind technology) exceeds our current energy needs by many times. However, that is merely the potential of wind near the ground, at 80 to 100 meters. Most wind energy is in the jet stream, miles over our heads. No one is going to build a tower that high to support a wind turbine; cost alone would prohibit that. But we can use flying energy generators -- turbines supported by kites or balloons or what amounts to stationar ...
Topics: energy, tech, wind power (all these topics)

Current Events Wind power is controversial but should keep on keeping on, says report		08 May 2007	Daily Grist
Current Events Wind power is controversial but should keep on keeping on, says report U.S. wind-power capacity has quadrupled in the past six years and could eventually produce up to 7 percent of the nation's electricity. Easy-breezy? Not quite: Wind-industry growth lacks "any truly coordinated planning," says a report from the National Academy of Sciences. Developers and officials should r ...
Topics: energy, National Academy of Sciences, news, wind power (all these topics)

Time's a wastin' Wind farms or poor farms?	JMG	07 May 2007	Gristmill
The torpor with which we here in the U.S. are responding to strong, clear, and persistent signals that the old era -- of abundant cheap energy in a stable climate -- is ending is nothing short of astonishing. The fact that supposedly serious people could have a debate about tourism vs. offshore wind turbines is astounding. Implicit in such a discussion is the premise that tourism is going to continue even if we don't build a lot of ways to attain a lot of non-fossil energy ...
Topics: Delaware, energy, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Something for everyone in the nuclear debate A good argument	John McGrath	03 May 2007	Gristmill
Via Brad Plumer, this might be the most honest, good-faith argument about nuclear power I've read in the last, oh, year or so. You can read Max Schulz's pro-nuclear argument here, and then read the anti-nuclear side by Bruce Smith and Arjun Makhijani. No surprise, I come down on the anti-nuclear side myself, but at least Schulz doesn't simply ignore or refuse to acknowledge the real risks of nuclear power (waste, proliferation, costs). And in his reply at the bottom ...
Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, nuclear power, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Renewable Energy Journal takes a moment	Gar Lipow	02 May 2007	Gristmill
Via Renewable Energy Journal.
Topics: energy, funnies, wind power (all these topics)

High-tech sunken tidal turbines I guess engineers don't like land-based turbines anymore	Jerome Woody	23 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Recently, I posted about a Canadian group that created a helium-filled floating wind turbine. On the opposite side of sea level, a Virgina-based team has installed several underwater turbines in New York's East River. Posted today on MIT's Technology Review (a good technology publication btw). Working from barges and tugboats off New York City's Roosevelt Island, engineers are battling northeasters and this month's heavy spring tides to install the first major tida ...
Topics: energy, New York City, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

High-tech floating wind turbines An interesting approach to bird safe wind power	Jerome Woody	10 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Ottawa, Canada-based company Magenn has developed a "floating wind turbine" for personal and infrastructure power generation. The helium-filled device floats up to 1,000 feet into the air, using high altitude wind gusts to generate power up to a kilowatt. The power is transfered down via two "tethers" attached to the turbine. Magenn states that its compact design and flexibility eliminates the risk of birds getting chopped up near it, a problem a ...
Topics: energy, wind power (all these topics)

Massachusetts Passes Wind Cape Wind gets state OK, boosting chances it will get built		02 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Massachusetts Passes Wind Cape Wind gets state OK, boosting chances it will get built If you're not up on the history of the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound, here's the brief version: It's alive! It's dead! It's alive! It's dead! Repeat. Our news today: It's alive! Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick's (D) administration declared Friday that the proposed 130-turbine offshore-wind project would do mo ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind found 'adequate' May become U.S.'s first large offshore wind project	Erik Hoffner	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This just in: the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs has weighed in on Cape Wind's Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR), saying that it 'adequately and properly complies' with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act. The project can now advance to the state permitting process. I believe it is the first U.S. offshore wind project to have a certified final environmental impact document.
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Brawn With the Wind Goldman Sachs and other financial powerhouses get into the Texas wind biz	Kate Galbraith	23 Mar 2007	Main Dish
What is Goldman Sachs doing in rural Texas? Probably some of its bankers have wondered that themselves, when they find they're three hours from the nearest latte. A Texas turbine. Photo: NREL / Cielo Wind Power One of Goldman's subsidiaries, Houston-based Horizon Wind Energy, is constructing a $600 million, 400-megawatt wind farm in the boonies west of Dallas. Financiers of ...
Topics: business, energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind passes new hurdle It's not the view: it's the vision	Erik Hoffner	25 Feb 2007	Gristmill
The most likely candidate for becoming the U.S.'s first offshore wind farm reached another permitting milestone by filing its Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) on February 15 with the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) Office. It's now available, and it's meaty. It makes two important points to the Marine Mineral Service, which now oversees the process. If the permit is denied, it will a) result in higher costs to Massachusetts citizens, since the sta ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation		02 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
Naughty and Nice How the energy industry spent its holiday vacation While you were whooping over your Wii, the energy industry exulted in a few holiday gifts of its own. Just before Christmas, a federal appeals court gave ExxonMobil a $2.5 billion break, slashing in half the $5 billion in damages that had been awarded to thousands of Alaskans affe ...
Topics: Department of Interior, energy, environmental justice, news, oil, politics, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Blow and Behold World's biggest offshore wind farm given OK in England		19 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
Blow and Behold World's biggest offshore wind farm given OK in England The world's biggest offshore wind farm has been given the go-ahead and will soon be built 12 miles off the coast of southeast England. The quaintly named London Array, being developed by a consortium that includes Shell WindEnergy, will consist of 341 turbines. A separate 100-turbine wind farm in the Thames estuary was also given the O ...
Topics: energy, London, news, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

Top ten breakthroughs that could help cool the greenhouse Read and be dazzled by the techno-futurism	Gar Lipow	12 Dec 2006	Gristmill
David asked contributors for end-of-year lists. Since I normally focus on conservative assumptions, I thought I'd use it as an excuse to look at future breakthroughs and cost improvements. I was going to weasel by calling these "possibilities," but instead I decided to use the time-tested technique of public psychics: I'll call them predictions, crow over any that come true, and pretend the rest never happened. 1. Power storage that will make electric cars ...
Topics: cars, climate change adaptation, electric vehicles, energy, energy efficiency, hybrids, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Wind Power Cards, Whole Foods, and you Are the wind credit cards deceptive?	David Roberts	04 Nov 2006	Gristmill
A kerfuffle has broken out in the green blogosphere. The state of play thus far: Steve Johnson noticed the new "Wind Power Card" from Renewable Choice Energy, available now at a Whole Foods near you. He is not a big fan: When you buy a card, you don't get any wind-generated electricity delivered to your home however. In fact, all you get is a card that doubles as a refrigerator magnet. Actually, you don't even get any credits, it's just a word they ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, green living, renewable energy, shopping, wind power (all these topics)

Bluster's Last Stand DOD declares wind turbines can interfere with radar, but says some can proceed		29 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Bluster's Last Stand DOD declares wind turbines can interfere with radar, but says some can proceed The Defense Department has finally completed a long-awaited study on how wind farms impact military radar, which clears the way for some stalled wind projects to continue. At least a dozen projects in Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin had been put on hold pending the ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Illinois, news, North Dakota, wind power, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Green Is the New Camouflage U.S. general in Iraq calls for renewable power		07 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Green Is the New Camouflage U.S. general in Iraq calls for renewable power The latest dirty hippie to issue an urgent call for renewable power is ... U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Zilmer. The top U.S. commander in western Iraq recently sent the Pentagon a "Priority 1" request for solar panels and wind turbines to augment traditional diesel generators. (What's nex ...
Topics: Department of Defense, energy, Iraq, news, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

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