From sailboats to windmills, humans have been putting the kinetic energy of wind to work for thousands of years. The mechanics behind modern wind turbines are more sophisticated, but many of the basic principles remain. Utility-scale electricity generation installations use Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine...
Windmills are more than just a traditional part of the Dutch landscape; they have played a key role in the war the Dutch have been waging against the ocean for the past thousand years. Our Cover Story is reported by Martha Teichner: The windmills at Kinderdijk were built nearly 300 years a...
One of the first full-fledged wind farms in the USSR was built in the late 1980s on the island of Saarema (Estonia), which consisted of 64 wind turbines and provided energy for a fish factory. Windmills on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia, 1989. At about the same time, the Raduga-1...
营造生息的家园 Because the topography is low-lying, Holland always faced the sea tide the corrosion, the survival instinct has given the Dutch by the power, they built the dam diking, to the sea struggle place, created has reached as high as 9 meter pump windmills, the homeland which ...
While it goes without saying that wind power isn't new, much of the technology being used to harness it is cutting edge. “Wind is nice – it’s free of charge and who doesn’t love free energy? We’re not stealing wind from windmills,” Niclas Dahl, th...
We can describe the key to unlocking better visibility and security in luxury goods supply chains in one word: technology. More specifically, we are talking about advancedcontrol towersolutions. What is a control tower in the world of logistics, you ask? Much like an airport’s control tower,...
Dalian Haichang Discoveryland Theme Park is located in the Golden Pebble Beach National Tourism Resort. The park is built around a lake and it has large amusement facilities. Be sure not to miss the thrilling “Crazy Cobra” roller coaster. You can also enjoy wonderful live shows, parades of...
The Noach, built in 1857. View original image At the moment, there are at least two sailing ships in development that are being built from scratch: theCeibaand theEcoClipper500. The first ship is being constructed in Costa Rica by a company namedSailcargo. She is built from wood and insp...
But something else which is also concerning is the condition the ocean was in, even prior to the spill. We live in a finite world. Our continued mistreatment of the ocean, the reduced fish population, and the disappearance of large fish in the last 50 years are all serious concerns. ...
(an Old Frisian word meaning "villages"), which were earth mounds upon which they built houses or even entire villages. These terpen were built to protect the villages from flooding. (Although there were once thousands of these, there are about a thousand terpen that still exist in the ...