"Dubbed the AK1000 by its developer, the Atlantis Resources Corporation, the one-megawatt turbine weighs 1,430 tons, stands nearly 75 feet tall and has three 60-foot diameter blades that can produce enough electricity to supply more than 1,000 homes."
According to a new report from Pike Research, the market value of electricity generated from biomass in the United States will increase steadily to $53 billion by 2020, up from approximately $45 billion in 2010.
To get to where my wife Jen is standing in the nacelle, she had to climb 80 meters straight up, using the ladders inside wind turbine tower. The heat index in South Texas that day was over 105 degrees, maybe more inside the tower. It definitely isn't for the faint hearted, but still is far better than working in a coal plant-check out those views. When the nacelle doors are opened to the sky, it's a beautiful place to work. I hope one day all of our rural communities would have the option of climbing up wind turbines instead of down coal mines.
at an event at Google’s offices in San Francisco on Monday night, the company’s director of climate change and energy initiatives, Dan Reicher, said that Google will soon make a step into clean energy project investing. How exactly Google plans to do that, Reicher didn’t elaborate, but Reicher has made similar comments before about how Google wants to become more active in helping clean power projects cross the so-called “valley of death,” where promising technologies can easily flounder from lack of funding between the research and development stage and the commercialization stage.
This is funny...
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"But an industry audience brought together in a civic centre to watch the opening via a videolink with the 209MW windfarm, watched in silence as the turbines failed to turn.
Half a minute later as a breeze developed and the first blade slowly began to rotate, there were cheers of relief as much as joy from executives of the developer, Dong, and its guests."
"With more solar installers entering the field, each offering appealing financing and leasing plans for homeowners and businesses — SunRun, SolarCity and Borrego Solar, among them — the competition is heating up."
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And that's good for all of us. :)
"The Maryland Energy Administration asked wind developers to express their interest in building industrial-size windmills a dozen or more miles off the state's 31-mile Atlantic coastline. At the same time, the energy agency said it is launching a study to gauge the economic viability and environmental impact of such a project."
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The economic viability study should be a one sentence reminder.
From the New York Times:
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"The bill would have raised the amount of solar electricity utilities can buy from their customers, and solar advocates say rooftop solar installations – and thousands of related jobs – are in danger if the limit isn’t raised soon."
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Makes no sense.
"Another team to watch is Rice University, which will feature its Zerow House, a no-nonsense solar house meant to be affordable to low-income families. (The name combines Zero and Row, since row houses are a Houston icon.)"
"..GE said that offshore wind is projected to balloon from an installed base of 1.5 gigawatts in 2008 to 30 gigawatts by 2020, driven by European renewable energy mandates and falling wind power prices. A typical size nuclear or coal power plant has a generating capacity of about one gigawatt, or 1,000 megawatts."
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