Wind power
Suzlon Energy Clarifies on Broken Turbine Blade in the US
India-based Suzlon Energy Ltd - the largest wind turbine manufacturer in Asia, announced on Friday that one of their wind turbine blades in the US, suffered an extremely rare and unusual incident, accidental breakage. [caption id="attachment_2064" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Suzlon windmill farm at Chitradurga"][/caption] We're talking about a "single V2 blade on a Suzlon S.88 turbine", while the rest are still operating without ...
England, Wind Power ‘Capital City’ in Europe
The north-east of England is soon to become the centre of an enormous wind farm industry that is being proposed to be set up because of its close proximity to the sea. Today with 3GW (a supply enough for 2m homes) of the 75GW of electricity consumed, Britain has come up to the fifth position, leaving behind Denmark in the ...
Largest Wind Farm in Africa, to be Built in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Electricity Corporation realized that they were falling short on energy resources and needed to add some extra sources to meet the demand. But instead of following the conventional method of installing huge power plants, they decided to build a wind farm instead. Built in north Ethiopia this 120 megawatt Ashegoba wind farm would generate 15% of the nation's power ...
Japanese Government Wants Energy Firms Weaned Off Fossil Fuels
Tokyo has its eyes on weaning electric, gas, and petroleum companies from fossil fuels. The Japanese government will require the big users to utilize certain amounts of nonfossil fuels - solar, hydraulic and nuclear power. The goal is for the proportion of nonfossil fuels to be 30% of the total energy supplies in Japan by 2030. It was 18% in 2005. ...
Do-it-yourself Wind Turbine Made from Scrap
This story reminds me of the Chinese dude who was able to make a solar water heater for his mother-in-law out of beer bottles. A fellow in London spent all of his $37 to make a wind turbine. He used: a bike frame and bearings, a Vespa magneto a Ford Fiesta battery all found in a dumpster or in the skips if you are ...
World’s Largest Wind Turbine Blade, by Vestas
Vestas Wind Systems, the largest wind turbines manufacturer is going to test the world's longest turbine blade of all times. They're going to do it soon, on the Island of Wight in the UK where they will build a research and development center that will play along with an existing Vestas plant which produced turbine blades since 2000. Though they revealed plans ...
Producing Hydrogen from Wind Power Being Tested
Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost main island. The island recently hosted the G-8 Summit at Lake Toya. I know the place, got a speeding ticket there once, which, btw, has nothing to do with this post. The Wakkanai Alternative and Renewable Energy Study Group and Heiren Energy Inc. are jointly testing a system that will store hydrogen that was produced through electrolysis ...
Kenichi Horie Finished Solo-Voyage on His Wind Powered Catamaran
Do you remember the Japanese sailor, environmentalist and adventurer Kenichi Horie that was going from Hawaii to Japan on his double-hull boat, "Suntory Marmaid II", using just the power of the waves? Horie, who will turn 70 in September, completed the 110-day solo trans-Pacific on July 5th and is now the first in the world to do it. The main delay ...
The Pickens Plan to Get America Weaned Off Foreign Oil
Can an oil man talk America into weaning itself from its dependency on the black gold? Is there a quick fix, even partial quick fix. Pickens thinks so. It's wind power. What do you think?
Wind Power Contributes to World Record for Tyson Gay
Wind power. There's an obvious reason, okay, maybe not so obvious reason to some why it is such a good thing. Wind power was attributed to helping Tyson Gay run the fastest ever 100 meters in history - 9.68 at the U. S. Olympic trials in Eugene, OR. The record, however, was aided with the help of a tailwind that ...
