global wind power Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:49:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 How Global Wind Power Capacity is Set to Boom in 2015 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:49:26 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54402 The global wind energy industry has been seeing robust growth, increasing capacity by 16.2% in 2014 from 318,644 MW in 2013 to 369,597 MW. Much of the increase is accounted for by China, Germany, the US, Brazil and India, although there have been a number of new installations in the rest of the world. Global […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/wind-power-capacity-2015/feed/ 2 54402 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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