Articles by
Paul Gipe
French Water-Pumping Windmills and Éolienne Bollée
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Paul Gipe
In the research for my forthcoming book, Wind Energy for the Rest of Us, I came across a lot of intriguing information about the development of wind energy. While fascinating, much of it is too far afield for one book on wind energy. So I am posting these items on my web site so they're searchable--by me as well as others.
Charles Miller’s Four Blade Turbine of 1926: Indiana’s Contribution to Wind Energy History
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Paul Gipe
Miller was an inveterate inventor and the Madison County (Indiana) Historical Society has an exhibited devoted to his work. It was here that I first saw a clipping of his wind turbine.
Dutch Transplant Wants to Save a Czech Watermill
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Paul Gipe
Wherein we reconnect with a Dutch miller and learn of his campaign to preserve his adopted country’s watermills.
Photos of Germania, Zilvermeeuw, Kinderdijk, and Zaanse Schans Windmills Posted
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Paul Gipe
I am continuing to update my web site by posting a series of photographs taken many years ago of Dutch ... Read more
New Page Posted of Photos of Paul Gipe’s Career in Renewable Energy
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Paul Gipe
I've finally taken the time to post some pictures from my career in renewable energy and energy policy. Some date from 1976, possibly earlier. My memory of those days is fuzzy as they say.
Return to Bird Springs
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Paul Gipe
We arrived with 55% charge remaining as opposed to last year’s 51%. We returned home with 34% State of Charge, slightly more than the 32% SOC during last year’s trip.
Proterra Demos Bus for Bakersfield’s GET Transit
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Paul Gipe
Proterra, the high-tech startup, demonstrated its all-electric bus for Golden Empire Transit (GET) staff today. The company hopes to sell GET, the transit company serving Bakersfield, two electric buses.
Six New Public Charge Stations at Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
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Paul Gipe
There was no signage and parking was at a premium. If nothing is done, these stations will be next to useless. They will be constantly ICEd and no one will be able to get in and charge.
Was Anderson Indiana a Part of Wind Industry History?
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Paul Gipe
I don’t have a good answer to that question. All I know is that I stumbled a cross a faded newspaper clipping at the Madison County Historical Society that pictured a wind turbine that I’d never seen before. Not only was it an unknown wind turbine—to me certainly—but that I’d never seen reference to it or its inventor Charles E. Miller before.
Still Turning: A History of Aermotor Windmills–A Review
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Paul Gipe
Finally an answer to a question that has gnawed at me for decades: Where did one of the great windmill manufacturers of all time get the name Aermotor? Why not Aeromotor? That was the way I’ve spelled it—in error--many times. Why not Airmotor? That’s certainly what it was.
Added New Cultural Icons of Tehachapi
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Paul Gipe
Today I updated my pages on cultural icons of wind turbines to include two murals and a sign board in Tehachapi, California.
Small Vindication: Renewable Devices Swift Ducted Rooftop Turbine Gone
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Paul Gipe
I am writing this now to close the book on this sad little turbine and the whole “let’s put them on the roof” phenomenon. Stumbling across an obscure NREL field test report from long ago (see Power Performance Test Report for the SWIFT Wind Turbine) dredged up this dark period in small wind turbine development.
