As wind-turbine farms expand, research shows they could offer diminishing returns From the UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS LAWRENCE — Renewable wind energy is experiencing a boom, with more wind turbines popping…
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Obama May Finally Succeed!
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach For this post I’ve taken as my departure point a couple of very interesting graphs from over at Not A Lot Of People Know That.…
Australian PM Cancels Subsidies for New Windfarm Projects
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t Breitbart – Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose recently appointed a commissioner to handle complaints about wind farms, has just instructed the government Clean…
Aussie government slashes renewable target
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Abbott government has dramatically slashed the Australian renewable energy target, from 41,000 GWh / year, to 33,000 GWh / year. The leaked appointment…
Renewables industry fury at new Wind commissioner appointment
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The Australian Renewables industry has reacted with fury to a leaked suggestion that a new “wind commissioner” will be appointed, to handle complaints about turbine…
Tesla announces low cost batteries for off grid homes
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Elon Musk has announced the release of a new storage battery for home use. The new battery in principle dramatically reduces the cost of going…
Offshore Wind power: Even Germany Can't get it Right
Eric Worrall writes: According to Breitbart, Germany’s flagship Bard 1 offshore wind farm has turned into a bottomless money pit, with stakeholders frantically lawyering up, scrambling to pin the blame…
Analysis: Solar & wind power costs are huge compared to natural gas fired generation
Ed Hoskins has done an analysis of cost ratios, and no matter what your viewpoint of economics might be, the numbers here don’t lie. Without being propped up by subsidies,…
Bearings: The Achilles Heel of Wind Turbines
Story by Eric Worrall – A few years ago, I used to know a senior wind turbine engineer. One evening, over a few beers, he told me the dirty secret…
Big Wind's latest deceitful ad campaign
Facing trouble abroad, Siemens ads seek to tap into US taxpayers and wind welfare system Guest essay by Mary Kay Barton If you watch much mainstream TV, you’ve probably seen…
Irony alert – wind turbine involved in petroleum spill at sea
Hazard to navigation? Danish ‘Safety Ship’ OMS Pollux, leaking oil after colliding with Morecambe Bay wind turbine A SHIP is leaking diesel after crashing into a wind turbine off the…
Claim: all the energy we need is just a mile above our heads- but getting it is another story
From NCAR, some wind pie in the sky. A mother lode of wind power Mapping the potential to harvest high-altitude wind May 28, 2014 | What if all the energy…
California's future energy pipe dream
I wonder how they’ll manage to put 25,000 offshore wind turbines in place after seeing the long battle (back to 2001 for the first permit) to get Cape Wind in…
The stark reality of green tech's solar and wind contribution to world energy
Summed in in one graph that says it all.
Wind turbine payback period claimed to be within 8 months
From Inderscience Publishers , something sure to make greens go “See, I told you!”, except for that little fatal mistake at the end. Read on. Wind turbine payback US researchers…
Renewable Energy Poses Security Risk, New Paper Warns
London, 2 June: A new paper published today by the Global Warming Policy Foundation warns that intermittent wind and solar energy pose a serious energy security risk and threaten to…
Newest target of copper thieves: wind turbines
From France24: A sophisticated network of metal thieves has targeted some 20 French wind turbines in a new looting trend, scaling the near 40-metre-high structures and stealing up to one…
Of sangaku and wind farms
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley The Edo period in Japanese history ran from 1603-1867. For most of that period, 1639-1854, the nation kept itself deliberately aloof from all Western influence.…
Gone with the wind: England's most important coastline
By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley I shall not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England’s green and pleasant…
Simulation in the 'Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy' provides new insight into best arrangement of wind turbines on large installations
From the Wind energy: On the grid, off the checkerboard WASHINGTON D.C., April 1, 2014 — As wind farms grow in importance across the globe as sources of clean, renewable…
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