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USA Could Generate 37 Million Gigawatt-hours From Wind

Posted on Feb 22, 2010 by Susan Kraemer.

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The newest and by far the most scientifically accurate and detailed estimate to date of the nation’s wind power potential has just been published by the NREL in Colorado, in conjunction with AWS Truewind.

Back in 1993; when turbines were smaller and less powerful, and computers were less able to calculate wind speeds over smaller areas, the NREL calculated the potential at about one third of this. The first comprehensive calculation has just been completed. With current technology, the US has enough wind potential to generate 37 million Gigawatt-hours of electricity from wind every year: enough to provide more than 12 times what we use each year.

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Home Wind Power for Half the Price, Over the Counter

Posted on Feb 03, 2010 by Derek Markham.

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For commercial renewable energy enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of eye candy among industrial sized wind installations, but for the homeowner, the closest they get to feeling like they’re really generating clean energy might be the ‘Powered by the Wind’ sticker they get from their local utility when purchasing the wind power option for electricity. But that could change very soon, because a major retail store, Ace Hardware, will soon be selling a very cool new home wind turbine at half the installed price of a traditional turbine.
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Scientists Sucessfully Test World’s First Laser-Guided Wind Turbine

Posted on Jan 08, 2010 by Jerry James Stone.

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The Danish National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy has successfully tested the world’s first wind turbine with a built-in laser-based anemometer.
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Next Generation Wind Turbine Produces 3 Times the Power

Posted on Nov 04, 2009 by Derek Markham.

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A radical new design in wind turbines takes a page from the design of jet turbine technology to generate three times the amount of power as a standard wind generator using propellers. The Dragonfly Wind Turbine uses three sub chambers working in line to speed up the airflow inside the turbine, which may have far-reaching potential in the wind energy field.
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Other World Computing: First 100% Wind Powered Tech Manufacturer in U.S.

Posted on Oct 27, 2009 by Derek Markham.

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Other World Computing (OWC) has become the first U.S. technology manufacturer to be completely powered by an on-site wind generator, which provides over double the energy requirements of the company’s operations, including its datacenter. The power is generated by a Vestas V39 500kW turbine, and any excess energy is sold back to the local power grid in McHenry County, IL.
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