Posts Tagged wind turbine

Texas Wind Turbine Research Center to Open in October

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Wind Power on May 12, 2012

The Scales Wind Farm Technology Facility (SWIFT), a state-of-the-art wind turbine research facility in the Texas Panhandle, is expected to become fully operational starting October. Stephanie Holinka, a Sandia National Laboratories’ spokesperson, said that the first phase of this project is being constructed by collaboration with Sandia’s academic and private partners. The other collaborators involved [...]

French Wind Turbine Produces Water From Atmospheric Humidity

Posted by Boniface Ndirangu in Wind Power on May 2, 2012

French company Eole Water has developed and is in the process of marketing an amazing invention- a modified wind turbine that has the capacity to produce fresh water for human consumption. This, states Eole Water, is a boon to remote communities challenged by the lack of fresh drinking water. The new product, named WMS1000, has [...]

Wind Farms Warm Local Climate Slightly, Albany Study Says

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on April 30, 2012

Researchers at the University of Albany have studied the effect of wind farms on local climate over a region of Texas that’s home to over 2,350 wind turbines. Their results showed an increase in temperature of 0.72 degrees in that area compared to neighboring sites that didn’t have wind farms on them. The study took [...]

Researchers Warning about Hurricane Effects on Offshore Wind Farms to be Built by Government

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on February 14, 2012

Whoever saw a wind turbine in action and a storm in action can imagine how it would be like these two met – and they do, on a regular basis. Not few wind turbines have been destroyed by powerful storms, but hurricanes could be even more fatal to them, they the poor expensive sticks rising [...]

Study Describes Wind Power Dependence on Atmospheric Stability

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on January 19, 2012

Scientists from LLNL, University of Colorado at Boulder and the NREL have recently assessed the performance figures of a wind turbine producing energy on the East Coast, and found how power depends on atmospheric stability. “The dependence of power on stability is clear, regardless of whether time periods are segregated by three-dimensional turbulence, turbulence intensity [...]

Enel Develops Mini Wind Turbine for Low-Speed Winds

Posted by Mihai Sandru in Wind Power on October 19, 2011

Enel Green Power in collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop have developed a mini wind turbine prototype that is more sensitive to low-altitude diffuse wind. The new wind turbine has a capacity of 55 kW and can generate continuous electricity as it can use the wind speeds of only 2 meters/second. The prototype was created [...]

GE Planning to Build 15 MW Wind Turbine – Their Biggest to Date

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on September 1, 2011

There’s only one thing bigger than big: HUGE. General Electric is now planning to build a huge wind turbine that will generate a maximum of 15 megawatts of electricity, their biggest yet. Currently, GE already has the biggest land wind turbine, but this one will generate six times the power of the first, and it [...]

Ford UK Diesel Engine Factory at Its Greenest With Third Wind Turbine Installed

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Car industry, Wind Power on August 16, 2011

One of Ford’s factories in the UK, the Dagenham Diesel Engine Assembly Line, is going green (actually, greener) with the installation of a third wind turbine to power its needs, doubling the CO2 savings from 2,500 tons to 5,000 tons per year. The third wind turbine will make the Dagenham Diesel Center 100% wind powered. [...]

Scrap Materials Used to Build 500W Vertical Axis Wind Turbine System

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on June 21, 2011

Along history, some said making wind turbines, transporting them to the site, installing and performing regular maintenance emits lots of carbon dioxide and uses lots of raw materials. A team of students from Cape May Technical High School in New Jersey has proved the contrary.

Evolutionary Theories Inspire Wind Turbine Placement to Maximize Space Efficiency

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on May 4, 2011

Building wind turbines surely is a challenging task for the engineers in charge with it. A recent study, followed by the development of a software could clear out all the issues of wind turbine placement, so they don’t interfere with each other and still occupy as little space as possible. The new approach is based on evolutionary algorithms developed by Dr. Frank Neumann, from the University of Adelaide.

Distance Between Wind Turbines Should Be Doubled, Researchers Say

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on January 22, 2011

Wind farms are currently a big hope of the alternative energy industry, but today, just like in the early days of existence, most of them face the issue of being underperforming. Charles Meneveau, a John Hopkins fluid mechanics and turbulence expert, and his colleague Johan Meyers, from Belgium, have devised a wind turbine arrangement that could enhance their efficiency.

Skystream 600, Southwest Power's New Ultra-Efficient, Internet-Connected Wind Turbine

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on January 10, 2011

Southwest Windpower chose CES 2011 (Consumers Electronic Show) as the perfect opportunity for introducing their new turbine: the Skystream 600. The latest in a popular line of turbines, Skystream 600 is said to produce abut 74% more energy than it’s direct predecessor Skystream 3.7.

Researchers Show Simple But Effective Discoveries That Could Enhance Wind Turbines' Efficiency by 18 Percent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on November 23, 2010

Even though the cost of wind power is in a continuous drop since 2008, more and more researchers aim for reducing it more while at the same time enhancing the efficiency. A couple of teams from the Syracuse University and the University of Minnesota have a few ideas about how to improve wind turbines by modding their blades and how the air flows on them.

SpiDAR: A Newly-Developed Wind Prediction System To Improve Wind Turbine Output by 15%

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on November 22, 2010

As they say, details make all the difference when it comes to big things. Following this principle, the huge wind turbines that you see on fields all around the world, need small adjustments and a little intelligence to act efficiently. Called SpiDAR, a newly-developed system can predict where wind is coming from and is going to be a step ahead and over currently-existing monitoring systems.

A Small and Efficient Home Wind Turbine Blade That Can Be Installed In 8 Seconds

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Wind Power on November 19, 2010

Amateur wind turbines can often be as important to one as a 100-foot tall turbine with a giant propeller, because even if they’re small, they provide the energy necessary for a family’s needs, for example. Building safe and effective parts for this green technology niche is as important as building more efficient turbines at the high size.

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