Turbines are responsible for as little as one percent of the deaths caused by the next smallest killer, communications towers. You would hardly know this by reading Twitter or scanning the comments on any news article about wind power. Here’s a sampling from the gaggle of bird commenters on...
(2) Despite these questions and uncertainties, and having full awareness of them, the vice president nevertheless proceeded to misrepresent the facts in his public statements, claiming that there was no doubt about the existence of chemical and biological weapons in Iraq and that a full-scale nuc...
You might imagine that wind turbines would be able to comfortably handle extreme conditions, but when winds reach a certain speed, turbines are shut down to prevent the blades suffering any damage. When wind speeds reach a critical level for a turbine, its bladescan be twisted, or “feathered,...
Shimizu’s turbine is rather innocuous to behold. The contraption looks more like an industrial-sized egg beater than it does your run-of-the-mill wind turbine. The compact design is aimed at helping to minimize the risk of structural failure. While traditional wind turbines use more a triad ...
“Whilst the wind turbines shut down for safety reasons during the worst of these winds, they automatically resumed operation promptly afterwards,” Statoil wrote in a post on its website. “A pitch motion controller is integrated with the Hywind turbine’s control system and will adjust the ang...
farms, which the company partially owns. The company will install 40 new 8-megawatt turbines and 47 additional 7-megawatt machines. Combined, these turbines will generate 660-megawatt of energy, an output that is capable of powering 460,000 homes. The wind farm is expected to go online in ...
America isn’t alone in seeking green energy; one of our neighbors is also spending significant money on green power. The Canadian government is set to spend about $6.7 billion to build renewable energy plants with Samsung. The Samsung Group will build equipment such as wind turbines and solar...
So, what is the wind energy potential of Anchorage, Alaska? The average current capacity is about 25 percent, according to Renewables.ninja. Newer, taller turbines could mean an increase of 10 percent. As for the solar energy potential of your backyard — you’ll have to figure that one ou...