axel kleidon Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:47:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 High-Altitude Winds Some 200 Times Weaker Than Previously Thought https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-altitude-winds-planck-20111213/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-altitude-winds-planck-20111213/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:47:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21491 High-altitude winds have been thought by some to be the ultimate energy source that will drive our needs in the future. However, recent calculations that researchers from the Max Planck Institute performed, reveal that these high winds contain some 200 times less energy than some people thought, and cited elementary physics in favor of that. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/high-altitude-winds-planck-20111213/feed/ 1 21491 Wind/Wave Power Not Infinite and Not Renewable, German Scientist Claims https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-wave-power-renewable-20110401/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-wave-power-renewable-20110401/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:17:25 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17745 Wind power had always been considered our salvation from peril, our last and most accessible "renewable" resource on this planet. Well, Axel Kleidon, a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, has another theory: wind and wave power are not so renewable and infinite, after all.

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