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Paul Gipe

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Ball State University Ground-Source Heat Pump System

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Paul Gipe

The ground-source heat pump system began delivering heated and cooled water to the BSU campus in 2012. A decade in ... Read more
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A Decade of Driving Electric—EVs Have Come a Long Ways Baby

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Paul Gipe

Driving electric has worked for us. It’s been fun, saved us thousands of dollars we would have paid for fuel, and we’ve done our part to clear the polluted air of the San Joaquin Valley, one of the most polluted locations in the United States. We plan to continue driving electric.
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Updated Italian translations in Multilingual Lexicon of Wind Energy

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Paul Gipe

Giacomo Piovano has updated the Italiano to my Multilingual Lexicon of wind energy terms. Piovano is a student at the ... Read more
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Jimmy Carter, the White House, & Me

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Paul Gipe

I’ve been invited to the White House only once. Jimmy Carter was the only President to ever invite me. For ... Read more
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Are EVs a Fire Risk?

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Paul Gipe

A relative was recently considering an EV when a neighbor suggested if they did buy an EV not to park ... Read more
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DAF-Indal: The Canadian Darrieus

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Paul Gipe

DAF-Indal[1] began working with Canada’s National Research Council and provincial utilities to develop Darrieus wind turbines using Canada’s abundant aluminum in the mid 1970s.[2] They constructed about a dozen small prototype Darrieus turbines less than 5 meters in diameter and about 9 meters tall in the mid to late 1970s, rated variously from 4 kW to 12 kW.[3] One was installed in the Arctic for Canada’s Defence Research Establishment.[4] Another was installed in Texas at the USDA’s Bushland Experiment Station in a wind-assisted pumping test. Another was installed on Block Island, Rhode Island.[5] One was still standing—inoperative--outside Toronto in 2007.[6]
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Updated–Smith-Putnam Stainless Steel Strap Found on Grandpa’s Knob Seeking a Home

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Paul Gipe

No, not recently, not by a long shot. Paul Bergman found a piece of torn and twisted stainless steel on ... Read more
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DAF-Indal 50 kW Darrieus in the Pacheco Pass

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Paul Gipe

The Canadian fabricator, DAF-Indal, installed a second generation 50 kW Darrieus turbine in 1981 at the the Romero Overlook Visitor ... Read more
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Prototype 100 kW FloWind Darrieus Turbine Still Standing Idle in Washington State

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Paul Gipe

NREL’s Owen Roberts reports that FloWind’s prototype 100 kW Darrieus wind turbine installed in early 1982 is still standing inoperative ... Read more
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New Used EV Thoughts–Tips on Buying

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Paul Gipe

Prepare for the EV. If your house requires a new service panel, it’s good to find out early. Replacing a ... Read more
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Ford CEO Gets It: Putting North American EV Production into Perspective

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Paul Gipe

In a fascinating interview with Robert Llewellyn of Fully Charged, Ford CEO Jim Farley clearly described the challenge facing legacy ... Read more
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Greenwashing & Wind Energy: What is it and Who Does it

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Paul Gipe

Recently I was approached about an article I’d written in 2013 where I accused The Nature Conservancy of greenwashing. (See ... Read more
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