wind power

Making the wind reliable?

One of the main drawbacks to wind power is that the wind is not reliable. It could be only a gentle breeze of 5 mph or more gusty at 30 mph or even higher. Trying to store excess energy from high...

Which one do we need more, Nuclear or Windmills.

Both are clean, both create electricity without producing any co2. This is were they differ one is cheaper, reliable, and no one is talking about. Which of the two am I talking about, nuclear....

Wind Power

This is a result of the storm my daughter experienced today (7-10). One block away a tree with a trunk about 5 feet in diameter was uprooted yet thei sign got curled up from the wind. As I looked at...

Have we ever really thought wind power through?

So much is being said and done about alternative sources of energy these days that it is easy to think that anything is better than older power sources. Take wind energy, for instance: that has to be...

Grow your own Wind with Wind Farms

Wind power is totally free (or is it?) Wind farms are sprouting in the U.K. at a massive rate, and while a few actually look nice, massive numbers of turbines cause a ‘blot on the landscape’. Already...

Ecologists Allay Fears For Farmland Birds From Wind Turbines

Wind farms pose less of a threat to farmland birds than previously feared, new research has found. The study helps resolve a potentially major environmental conflict: how to meet renewable energy...

Breakthrough In Energy Storage: New Carbon Material Shows Promise Of Storing Large Quantities Of Re

Engineers and scientists have achieved a breakthrough in the use of a one-atom thick structure called "graphene" as a new carbon-based material for storing electrical charge in ultracapacitor...

New Methods To Protect Wind Generators During Voltage Dips Developed

A young researcher has put forward two protection techniques so that wind generators continue to be operative despite breaks in electricity supply.

Wind-powered 'Ventomobile' Places First in Race

The solely wind-driven Ventomobile constructed by a team of students in aerospace engineering came in first at the Aeolus Race in the Dutch town of Den Helder last Friday. Racing the extremely...

Why Wind Turbines Can Mean Death For Bats

Power-generating wind turbines have long been recognized as a potentially life-threatening hazard for birds. But at most wind facilities, bats actually die in much greater numbers. Now, researchers...