Hornet wind turbine blades verses hyperspin blades

Here is a video that will show that even in 6 mph winds, the blades will turn!

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Here is an interesting new concept.

The Honeywell Wind Turbine eliminates traditional wind turbine gear box, shaft and generators. The Honeywell Wind Turbine is a gearless, “free wheeling’’ turbine that generates power from the blade tips (where the speed lies) rather than through a complex slow center shaft. By practically eliminating mechanical resistance and drag, the Honeywell Wind Turbine creates significant power (2000 kWh/yr) operating in a greater range of wind speeds (2-45 mph) than traditional wind turbines. The highest output, lowest cost per kWh installed turbine ever made. So powerful, so simple.

The price is coming down along with getting all parts needed for a full installation. None of this one piece at a time routine. So, bottom line, this one has the biggest bang for your buck!

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Multi-Tasking Taken to a Whole New Green Level

Have you stood near a roadway and been buffeted by the gusts of wind from passing cars, or nearly knocked over by the force of wind from a big rig truck? That is energy gone to waste ….. until now. Mark Oberholzer, a professor of landscape architecture at Rice University in Houston, proposes installing small vertical-axis wind turbines (Darius turbines), inside the concrete highway dividers to generate power. Utilizing the wind energy created by passing traffic. (more…)

World’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm, Online by 2012

On Tuesday, May 12, the green light was given to build the world’s largest offshore wind farm in the Thames Estuary of Great Britain. The Thames Estuary is the area in which the River Thames meets the waters of the North Sea. The first phase of the 90 square mile London Array will see 175 turbines producing 630 megawatts (MW) of electricity 12 miles off the coast of Kent. (more…)

Houston – We Have A Future !

Houston, Texas based Hydro Green Energy, in partnership with the city of Hastings, Minnesota, installed in late 2008, the United States’ first-ever commercial, federally-licensed hydrokinetic power station to generate clean, emissions-free hydrokinetic power from the Mississippi River. Power operations began in early 2009, with the second of which is being installed this spring.

Hydrokinetic energy generates power by using underwater turbines to harness the energy from the natural velocity of flowing water, be it river, tidal or ocean current. Traditional hydropower, in contrast, relies upon dams, diversionary methods, or other manmade impounding structures behind which potential energy in the water is stored. (more…)

The Princess Elisabeth Station has been officially inaugurated in Antarctica on February 15th, 2009.

This station is the only polar base operating entirely on renewable energies. It has eight wind turbines from Proven Energy.

It marks a major change, as most stations rely on diesel generators – because no wind turbines, until now, were thought to be robust enough for such extreme conditions. The turbines will endure the most severe weather conditions on Earth.

They will be operating in average winds of 53 mph and winter gusts of over 200mph, while still providing 230V electricity for the stations heating, computers, lights and scientific instruments. The electricity generated is expected to be the highest output of any small wind power system in the world. (more…)

Norwegian Wind Power

The Scandinavian country has the longest coastline in Europe and lots of strong wind. Norway’s Oil and Energy Minister released a 30 page report by the Energy Council stating: “Norway ought to have access of up to 40 terrawatt hours of renewable energy by 2020-2025, of which about half would come from offshore wind power.”

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The number of bald eagle breeding pairs in the lower 48 states increased from nearly 500 in 1963 to nearly 10,000 in 2006, according to the U.S. Fishand Wildlife Service, which attributes the comeback to the U.S. ban in 1972 of the pesticide DDT, along with the bird’s protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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