Cowboy Capitalists Driving Wind Power Sector Growth
Monday, August 25th, 2008Wind power is blowing up, especially in America. In 2007, the world connected 20,000 MW of wind power capacity to electricity grids. The U.S. claimed the lion's share with 5,243 MW of installed wind capacity, the largest amount ever added by a country in a single year, according to a ...
Chasing Ocean Wind Currents
Thursday, August 14th, 2008The intense surface winds of Typhoon Olga, represented by yellow spirals, can be seen moving around South Korea in the China Sea. QuikScat tracks its birth as a tropical depression in the Philippines and its northward journey in the western Pacific to its landfall in Korea. The eastern North Pacific ...
The Wind-Power Boom Has Only Begun
Saturday, August 9th, 2008[caption id="attachment_198" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="U.S. Installed Wind Power Capacity in 1999"][/caption] [singlepic=143,540,390,,center] Wind power is blowing up. In 2007, the U.S. wind power sector added 5,243 MW of installed capacity, the largest amount ever added in a single year in the world. For the third straight year, wind power was the second largest ...
Maps of Oceans Wind-Power Potential in Summer & Winter
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008[singlepic=380,530,440,watermark,center] Map of Summer Wind Power Potential - Purple=Strong Wing Ocean winds are wildly irregular. In some spots, the air is still. In others, the wind whips fiercely over the waters. To identify potential wind-farm locations, researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory mapped out average wind intensity over the ...
The World’s Best Wind Power
Friday, July 11th, 2008[singlepic=368,520,510,watermark,center] NASA's Map of Global Wind Power Resources Wind power increased 34% every years between 2000 and 2005, which makes it not only the fastest growing renewable energy technology, but also the fastest growing electric power source. Globally, installed wind capacity at the end of 2003 was about 39,000 MW, with 14,609 ...
Maybe the Answer Isn’t Blowing in the Wind
Sunday, July 6th, 2008[singlepic=355,550,440,watermark,center] A new study on the environmental impact of wind turbines on bird life at the Judith Gap Wind Energy Center near Harlowton revealed that far turbines (at least in some areas) kill far more bats than birds. Turbine-related fatalities at Judith Gap Wind Energy Center near Harlowton reported 1,206 bats ...
An Atlas of U.S. Renewable Energy Resources
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008[singlepic=347,520,420,watermark,center] Optimal Biomass on Left = Blue, Red Load centers = Green Biomass technology converts bio-based feedstocks like wood, agricultural waste, and yard waste through combustion into electricity. Biomass fuel is either directly combusted in a boiler, or gasified and then combusted, or turned into a liquid fuel that can be combusted. The ...
The Plot Against Solar Energy Killed U.S. Wind Power Decade Ago
Saturday, June 28th, 2008[singlepic=195,520,420,,center] Map of Promising Sites for Wind Power The Bureau of Land Management eclipsed the promise of solar energy in the United States yesterday. The tragic fate of the U.S. wind power industry in the 1980s illustrates how the BLM's decision will impact the still embryonic U.S. solar energy industry. U.S. Windpower, the ...
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