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It’s amazing how wind energy can be a beneficiary in so many ways, however the students at Stuttgart University have taken it into another level by coming up with the concept of a ‘wind powered’ vehicle! Inventus Ventomobile, has three wheels,...
Texas utility officials have given preliminary approval to building billions of dollars worth of transmission lines to bring wind energy from gusty West Texas to urban areas.Texas is already the national leader in wind power, and supporters say the...
Actress Evelyn Keyes, who played Scarlett O’Hara’s younger sister Suellen in “Gone With the Wind,” has died at age 91.Friend and producer Allan Glaser said Friday that Keyes died of cancer at her Montecito, Calif., home on July 4. He says word of her...
Legislation to allow an offshore wind farm breezed through the Delaware legislature Wednesday and was quickly signed into law.The initial plan calls for about 60 large wind turbines about 11 miles east of Rehoboth Beach. Bluewater Wind LLC could begin...
Two decades from now Americans could get as much electricity from windmills as from nuclear power plants, according to a government report that lays out a possible plan for wind energy growth.The report, a collaboration between the Energy Department...
An Energy Department report concludes that wind turbines can produce a fifth of the nation’s annual electricity needs within about two decades. That is about the same share of electricity produced today by nuclear power.Wind energy today accounts for...
Britain unveiled plans Monday to generate enough electricity through offshore wind farms to power every home in the country by 2020, increasing production more than 60-fold and changing the look of its coastlines.Britain’s wind-swept coasts and shallow...
The strong winds that blow across the Northern Plains have been chased over the past two years by a spate of politicians and entrepreneurs eager to exploit them as an energy alternative to fossil fuels.Yet political will, tax breaks and a seemingly...
It’s amazing how wind energy can be a beneficiary in so many ways, however the students at Stuttgart University have taken it into another level by coming up with the concept of a ‘wind powered’ vehicle! Inventus Ventomobile, has three wheels,...
There are man places on this planet where even if you had all the wealth in the world, you could not buy an iota of energy since the conditions are so inhospitable. There are places and times when the sun never comes out, the cables never reach and...
It’s unbelievable to know that an ordinary childhood pastime could cause such a breakthrough in renewable energy! Researchers from the Delft University Of Technology, Netherlands have made this come true after their success of flying a 10 square...
It’s not uncommon to receive +ve and –ve responses for any step taken…..even if it means good for all. Same is the case for Cape Wind Project. Being in limelight for controversies regarding its impact on the local fishing industry and also for...
Wind turbines have just got a makeover thanks to French designer Philippe P. Starck with his new ‘Democratic Ecology’ personal wind turbine, recently unveiled at the Greenenergy Design show in Milan. Stylish looks aside, these things provide 20% to...
Orange has been associated with the Glastonbury Festival for over ten years. Off late with the escalating awareness about environment problems, they have been trying to come up with innovative techniques through which renewable energy can be put to a...
It is sad to know that we cannot sustain what nature has given us but are in a hot pursuit to design and develop structures that can render the same. The latest to join the list of green havens is the sustainable Habitat 2020 destined for China....
It isn’t necessary that a school dropout is absolutely good-for-nothing and won’t do well in life. If you’ve got plenty of active grey cells then your capabilities need not be bounded by academic performance only. Such is the case of a...
How many of us are aware of the basic fact that Wind is a form of solar energy? Ok at least most of know that wind power is used to generate electricity via wind turbines. Again not many of us actually know about (technically) how these turbines make...
What can be better and greener for a city then getting street lights powered by natural elements like wind and sun? The brain behind such a practical idea is Mojtaba Navvab, of the University of Michigan Architectural Laboratory. This hybrid...
ohn Yancey stands on his property with a wind turbine from the Maple Ridge Wind Farm in background on Thursday, August 7, 2008, in Harrisburg, N.Y. The $400 million Maple Ridge wind project, the largest in New York state, brought money and jobs and a...
