Saturday, December 19th, 2009
Coming to a Rooftop Near You: Maglev Wind Turbines
Vertical wind turbines put pressure on bearings, but one company, Enviro Energies, has a better idea: maglev or magnetic levitation of the turbine so that it will turn, not on bearings that need lubrication and servicing, but on a virtually frictionless force field of magnetism. In addition, Enviro sees its new vertical turbine as suitable for city rooftops, as its design takes even light wind currents from any direction and converts them to usable electrical power. See a Discovery Channel denmonstration of how the turbines work. Then jump over to their products page for more information and pricing.
… as the green future unfolds.
Tags: addition, alignright, alt, bearings, Breeze, City, city rooftops, class, company, copy, demonstration, design, direction, Discovery Channel, earth, electrical power, Energies, energy, Enviro, environment, Environmentalism, field, force, Gentle, gentle breeze, height, href, img, information, jump, Kids and Teens, light wind, lubrication, Maglev, magnetic levitation, magnetism, money, page, pressure, pricing, Rooftop, School Time, servicing, src, Sustainability, Sustainable living, title, turbines, Untitled, Vertical, vertical turbine, vertical wind turbines, width, wind, wind currents
Posted in Going Green, Technology, Wind Power | 9 Comments »
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
The Government handed out some big bucks this week. How does 338 million in grants sound? Well, this is in an effort to get the development of geothermal energy on a fast track.
Some of the companies that got the grants were:
Ormat Technologies
AltaRock Energy
City government of Raleigh, NC
County government of Hattiesburg, MS
Companies that are putting the grants into their projects ranging from putting geothermal heat pump into a waste water processing center to putting heat pumps in to keep prisoners comfortable. (more…)
Tags: Abu Dhabi, Add new tag, alignleft, alignright, alt, altarock, Alternative energy, Baker, baker hughes, Big, big boys, Business, Celsius, Chevron, City, class, climate, coast, Controls, core, country, development, different stages, drilling, effort, electric, electric power generation, electricity, energy, energy city, environment, General, Geothermal, geothermal power, go green, Government, green, Hattiesburg, hattiesburg ms, Heat, heat pumps, heating, height, Honeywell, hot rocks, href, Hughes, img, Johnson, johnson controls, little planet, ms companies, NC County, Ormat, ormat technologies, power sector, processing, processing center, producer, pump, Raleigh, schulumberger, source, src, steady stream, style, target, title, track, ups, ups and downs, waster, water, weather, week, west, width, wind
Posted in Geothermal, Going Green, Technology | 8 Comments »
