windmills Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:58:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Japan Builds Offshore Floating Windmill Farms off Fukushima Coast https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-builds-offshore-floating-windmill-farms-fukushima-coast-20131029/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-builds-offshore-floating-windmill-farms-fukushima-coast-20131029/#respond Tue, 29 Oct 2013 16:58:45 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=42891 Japan is embarking on a quest for clean energy. Off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, twelve miles out to sea, floats a giant wind turbine that will generate enough electricity to power 1,700 homes. Additionally, the goal of this offshore project is to generate over 1 gigawatt of electricity from 140 wind turbines by 2020. […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-builds-offshore-floating-windmill-farms-fukushima-coast-20131029/feed/ 0 42891 US Awarded First Place in Wind Energy Production https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-first-place-wind-energy-production-20090204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-first-place-wind-energy-production-20090204/#respond Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:45:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=2035 The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) awarded the United States of America with the first position in wind energy production. US has a huge lead compared to other countries as last year they increasedtheir wind energy capacity by half. US windmills can generate up to 25GW of energy - about a fifth of global wind power.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/us-first-place-wind-energy-production-20090204/feed/ 0 2035 Very Efficient Vertical Wind Turbine Once Thought Impossible to Build https://www.greenoptimistic.com/very-efficient-vertical-wind-turbine-once-thought-impossible-to-build-20090128/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/very-efficient-vertical-wind-turbine-once-thought-impossible-to-build-20090128/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:35:39 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1911 As wind industry claimed that vertical turbines are ineffective, inventor Adam Fuller developed a project to prove this theory wrong.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/very-efficient-vertical-wind-turbine-once-thought-impossible-to-build-20090128/feed/ 37 1911 Harvesting Wind Power From Any Direction With Cylindrical Turbines https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sridhar-condoor-cylindrical-wind-turbine-20090118/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sridhar-condoor-cylindrical-wind-turbine-20090118/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 20:59:29 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=1686 The use of wind power has been around for centuries, from the simple sail to the sophisticated windmills. The inconvenience of harvesting wind energy is that most of wind-farm sites are placed far away from the areas that need the power.

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