hybrid wind turbines Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:16:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 When Turbines Sprout Wings and Fly https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flying-wind-turbines/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flying-wind-turbines/#respond Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:32:13 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57444 Wind turbines, the tall white things that sat spinning in the fields; the things you counted on the long car rides as a kid, could possibly be obsolete in the near future thanks to the brilliant mind of Dr. Richard Ruiterkamp, Dutch astrophysicist. Dr. Ruiterkamp has developed the first ever “flying” wind turbine, resembling a […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/flying-wind-turbines/feed/ 0 57444 Hybrid Wind Turbines Also Working Without Wind, Helped by Biogas https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smartgen-hybrid-wind-turbines-20100902/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smartgen-hybrid-wind-turbines-20100902/#respond Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:04:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=9872 A new hybrid gas-wind turbine called SmartGen has been designed to work on low winds based on a system that turns the turbine with compressed air from a compressor running on biogas.

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