Large-scale wind power needs more land, causes more climatic impact than previously thought
When it comes to energy production, there's no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately.
Oct 4, 2018
4
377
Energy & Green Tech
When it comes to energy production, there's no such thing as a free lunch, unfortunately.
Oct 4, 2018
4
377
Energy & Green Tech
The world's largest offshore windfarm has officially opened. The project commanding the Numero Uno status is the Walney Extension. An official inauguration was marked as September 6, and it now means that the Walney Extension ...
Energy & Green Tech
Scotland is making wind energy news with an offshore wind project carrying high ambitions. The spotlight is on the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre (EOWDC), an offshore wind test and demo facility. It is Scotland's ...
Energy & Green Tech
Statoil is riding high on performance outcomes during the first three full months of its wind farm production, which exceeded expectations.
Energy & Green Tech
In 2012, a study led by UAlbany atmospheric scientist Liming Zhou analyzed nine years of NASA satellite data to present the first observational evidence of turbine induced nighttime warming effects in a west-central Texas ...
Jan 11, 2018
2
43
Energy & Green Tech
An impressive share of a country's energy consumption through wind? That is one more sign of wind energy's potential as countries look for cleaner energy alternatives. The spotlight goes on Denmark.
Energy & Green Tech
What about raising the bar on the potential of offshore wind power?
Energy & Green Tech
There is considerable opportunity for generating wind power in the open ocean, particularly the North Atlantic, according to new research from Carnegie's Anna Possner and Ken Caldeira. Their work is published by Proceedings ...
Oct 9, 2017
4
271
Engineering
Anupam Sharma pulled an accordion folder from the bookshelf above his Iowa State University desk. Inside was the carefully collected and preserved wing of a short-eared owl.
Aug 15, 2017
1
62
Energy & Green Tech
According to a prediction made by the U.S. Department of Energy, wind energy could provide 20 percent of electricity in the U.S. by the year 2030. This has motivated researchers from the University of Utah's Department of ...
Aug 3, 2017
1
874
A wind turbine is a rotating machine which converts the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator, wind power unit (WPU), or wind energy converter (WEC).
This article discusses electric power generation machinery. The windmill article discusses machines used for grain-grinding, water pumping, etc. The article on wind power describes turbine placement, economics and public concerns. The wind energy section of that article describes the distribution of wind energy over time, and how that affects wind-turbine design.
This text uses material from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA