Wind power
Bladeless Windmills Could Suit Cities
Many among you who don’t like the traditional windmills always complain about the large blades that rotate when the wind blows against them. Conventional windmills require high maintenance cost and take up huge space too. Besides, they kill birds. Clearly, traditional windmills aren’t ideal for urban environments. In order to solve all these issues, Delft University of Technology's EWICON (Electrostatic Windenergy ...
Wind Turbines Get Smarter with Tech Intervention
Think wind power, and you can see that turbines have been getting bigger and better. With better computer models and components embedded, wind turbines have been made more productive. GE’s new 2.5-120 wind turbine, announced last week, is even better. Its maximum power output is about 2.5 megawatts, which is lower than that of the leading 2.85 megawatt turbine. The turbine will ...
Permission Sought for Massive 1.2GW Wind Farm Project in UK
London Array, a massive offshore wind farm in the Thames, will be the world’s largest once it its completed. But now the project has got some competition from within the UK. Another offshore wind farm project in UK has moved a step forward with the submission of a planning application for a gigantic 1.2GW development off the coast of Anglia. According to ...
Apple Developing Wind Tech to Generate and Store Heat
If you have been thinking that Apple’s area of activities center’s around the computer and mobile technologies, think again! The Cupertino company is working on bringing to the fore about innovations in other fields too. Apple has turned towards renewable energy and it claims they can be the best at activities like storing wind power as heat, and then releasing it ...
SheerWind Wind Generator Hopes to Reduce Wind Power Costs
Wind turbines have long been receiving criticism saying that they are noisy and destroy landscapes and birds. SheerWind, a wind power startup from Minnesota, has come up with a new type of ducted wind turbine that can bring more output than the traditional wind turbines. The company has introduced a new system named INVELOX system which has the ability to operate ...
Global Wind Power Supply Could Triple by 2020
The future of the wind energy seems to be bright. Though the global recession and the failure to create a much better commercial conditions to support more green investment could slow down the growth in the next few years, production will accelerate again by 2020. As per a report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Greenpeace International, it is ...
Largest Offshore Windfarm Starts Power Generation
As you all know, London Array is the largest offshore wind farm in the world. A prestigious moment in history has now come unto the wind farm with the first phase of the project starting to produce electricity for the first time. The project, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, has been constructed in two phases. Under this project, around 175 ...
Windstrument Wind Turbine is Uniquely Designed
A uniquely designed wind turbine is soon to be a reality. Asahi Kasei Plastics has joined hands with Unified Energies International to develop a new wind turbine with an orchid like design. The device, called Windstrument, aims at attaining affordable and renewable energy. The Windstrument has been developed for residential use and utility-scale projects, including entire communities, industrial centers, as well ...
Wind Power Set to be the Energy of the Future
With the cost of electricity rising like never before, people are pushing for more avenues in the renewable energy space. The traditional forms of electricity have significant health and environmental effects, while renewable energy like wind and solar are widely accepted as an increasingly cost-effective energy solutions. And, among them wind energy can be considered as the cheapest energy sources. Apart ...
US-UK Deal for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
The US and the UK have announced that both will collaborate on developing floating offshore wind turbines. These turbines would be capable of operating in deep waters. Work on offshore wind turbines had started sometime back, and several methods were proposed to fix the turbines on to the sea floor and to balance them in the best possible way. However, none ...
