Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Been waiting for this for while


I made a post earlier about this wind-turbine design. I believe small-scale wind energy will become more prevalent in the future. Designs like this will be paramount.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Interesting New Wind Turbine Tech

It floats up to a 1000ft in the air and transmits it's power back down to the ground via it's grounding cable. Can be retracted and redeployed elsewhere with minimal fuss. Check it out here.

Monday, January 4, 2010

New Laser System to Predict Wind

This system can 'see' gusts before they hit the turbine and also make small adjustments to the angle of the turbine. End result? Longer lasting turbines...

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Off-shore wind development website


Happy New Years!

An index of North American offshore wind development projects and their current status. Powered with Google Maps: http://offshorewind.net/

Also a concise summary of many wind-industry developments in the near future and recent past: http://environmentalresearchweb.org/blog/2010/01/going-off-the-deep-end-in-2010.html