Articles by
Paul Gipe
We’re Number 1 Again: Bakersfield Tops US Air Pollution Charts
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Paul Gipe
Yes siree, we’re serious folk here in Bakersfield, Kern County’s largest city. We strive to be Number 1 in whatever ... Read more
German Museum Acquires Giant Growian Blade Tip
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Paul Gipe
The Deutches Windkraft Musuem (German Windpower Museum) has acquired one of the massive blade tips from the giant German wind ... Read more
Famous Fortified French Village Proposes a Wind Turbine to Power its EVs. . . in 1946!
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Paul Gipe
My historical journey into the deep recesses of wind energy took another odd twist yesterday. I was updating my bibliographic ... Read more
Explanation for FloWind Blade Failures by an Eyewitness
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Paul Gipe
Because of my critical articles on Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines, Wind Harvest’s Kevin Wolf contacted me with background on what failed ... Read more
Hallelujah We’ve Passed Peak Gassers–Combustion Vehicle Sales in Terminal Decline
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Paul Gipe
In January 2024 Bloomberg generated a lot of media buzz when it announced that sales of gasoline-powered vehicles peaked in ... Read more
Rolling Across Carrizo Plains in a Bolt–Luxuriating at the Buckhorn
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Paul Gipe
In mid March Nancy and I saddled up our Bolt EV and headed out to the Carrizo Plains National Monument ... Read more
Tony Swan–a Rock
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Paul Gipe
Tony Swan was a rock. He was someone you could always lean on. You could depend on him. If he ... Read more
Niels Borre’s Checkered Past Landed in California’s Salinas Valley
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Paul Gipe
I fell down another rabbit hole when Klaus Rockenbauer at Global-Windphotos posted images of a group of mystery wind turbines ... Read more
Mystery Wind Turbines of the Salinas Valley Wind Rush–Solved
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Paul Gipe
During the heyday of the Great California Wind Rush in the early to mid 1980s, there were a handful of ... Read more
400 Mile EV Road Trip–without a Spreadsheet!
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Paul Gipe
In late January this year, Nancy and I took a 400 plus mile road trip to Salinas, California, the home ... Read more
38th Annual Windmill-Wildflower Hike Planned for Tehachapi 18 May 2024
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Paul Gipe
Tehachapi Windmill-Wildflower Hike 2024 38th hike Paul Gipe and Georgette Theotig will lead a hike among the wind turbines on ... Read more
Vehicle Efficiency in International Units and with Feedback
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Paul Gipe
Lots of feedback on my last post: EV Efficiency: Miles per Gallon of Gasoline Equivalent. Friends and colleagues sent me ... Read more
