Articles by

Paul Gipe

Souvenir photo from 2015 hike on the pct across cameron ridge in the tehachapi pass.

Windpower 98 Tehachapi Tour

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Paul Gipe

The following appeared in an edited version in an 1998 edition of Windpower Monthly Four busses chocked full of windpower ... Read more
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BWC 850 Measured Power Curves

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Paul Gipe

North American Green’s Erosion Control Software

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Paul Gipe

Those planning wind projects in steep terrain (California, Texas, the northeastern USA, Spain, Italy, France) or those repowering projects in ... Read more

The Landscape Impact and Visual Design of Windfarms by Caroline Stanton

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Paul Gipe

This is the second of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The other is a Review of Wind ... Read more
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Wind Turbines & the Landscape: Architecture & Aesthetics by Frode Birk Nielsen

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Paul Gipe

This is the first of two reports on wind turbines and aesthetic design. The second is The Landscape Impact and ... Read more

Time to Clean Up the Mess in Kern County

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Paul Gipe

  Wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology for generating electricity. Wind development is booming. Worldwide sales ... Read more

The Need for an International Small Wind Turbine Test Center

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Paul Gipe

There is a pressing need for an international center to test and demonstrate small wind turbines. In contrast to the medium-sized wind turbine industry, which is nearing technical maturity, small wind turbines are still plagued by high costs and poor reliability.

Comments on the Vortec Diffuser Augmented Turbine

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Paul Gipe

I was critical of the development of this wind turbine for several reasons: excessive hype, questionable sales of stock, and the aggressive style of the company's promoter.

Removal and Restoration Costs in California: Who Will Pay?

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Paul Gipe

An edited version of this article appeared in the Spring 1997 issue of WindStats Newsletter (Vol. 10, No. 2).   ... Read more

Financing Distributed Wind Development 1997

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Paul Gipe

  The following article appeared in an edited form in Independent Energy. With restructuring fever sweeping the North American utility ... Read more
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Wind Farm, Wind Plant, Wind Power Plant—Not Wind Parks

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Paul Gipe

In American and British English "park" connotes recreational enclaves or sylvan settings publicly protected from development. Arrays or clusters of multiple wind turbines are more correctly described as wind power plants. During the 1970s utilities in North America envisioned building "energy parks" of multiple nuclear reactors. Propagandists for the utilities deliberately chose the term "parks" to mislead public debate. Continued use of the term "wind park" by the wind industry may be construed as a similar attempt to deceive the public.
Paul gipe at wulf test field beginning installation of air micro turbine. bergey 850 in background.

Wulf Test Field Site Description

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Paul Gipe

Since 1997 Paul Gipe and Nancy Nies have used the site to gain experience installing and operating small wind turbines, to measure small turbine performance and noise emissions, and to experiment with various erosion control products and practices.