Articles by
Paul Gipe
We Went Solar and What an Education it Was
By
Paul Gipe
Yes, we went solar in late 2021. Pacific Gas & Electric’s rates, already among the highest in the US, kept ... Read more
Philippe Bruyerre’s Retrofutur: une autre histoire des machines à vents–a Review
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Paul Gipe
Eclectic. That’s the word that comes to mind when describing Philippe Brueyerre’s Retrofutur: une autre histoire des machines à vents. ... Read more
Transpower—the Flying Clothesline from the Early 1980s
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Paul Gipe
Transpower was another of those companies that thought they had a bright idea about how to harness wind energy in ... Read more
Chuck Moves to Volvo XC40 Recharge–Becomes EV Evangelist
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Paul Gipe
Chuck (Charles) Longabach took an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to buy a new car. He’d always wanted a new Volvo. He’d owned ... Read more
WTG Energy Systems’ MP-200 (1975-1982)
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Paul Gipe
Who remembers WTG Energy Systems and its developer Alan Spaulding? I’d certainly forgotten about him and his wind turbine until ... Read more
Wind Harvest VAWT—a Jungian Vision (the Backstory)
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Paul Gipe
While strolling through the Bakersfield Museum of Art this summer—yes, don’t laugh, we have an art museum here—I came across ... Read more
EV Charging Apps 2023
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Paul Gipe
The world of DC Fast Charging is changing rapidly. There are a dozen or more networks that provided DC Fast ... Read more
Howden Wind Farms: Scottish Adventure in the New World
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Paul Gipe
The Great California Wind Rush (1980-1985) was on and like gold had done before it, the lure of riches drew ... Read more
The Howden Wind Turbine Theme Song—“Turn em On, Let em Run”
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Paul Gipe
The Great California Wind Rush was the Wild West of wind energy. So it’s fitting that one of the songs ... Read more
Denmark’s Energy Museum Loses Funding—Will Close
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Paul Gipe
Denmark’s Energimuseet (the Energy Museum), a “must see” for anyone working in the energy field, especially those of us in ... Read more
Agile Wind Power VAWT Still Not Removed
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Paul Gipe
Thilo Wirth visited the Grevenbroich test site west of Cologne 24 September 2023. He found that Agile Wind Power’s test ... Read more
Betz’s “Wind-Energy and its use by Windmills” 1926
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Paul Gipe
Down the rabbit hole again. I got a request for a paper by German physicist Albert Betz that I didn’t ... Read more
