Articles by
Paul Gipe
California Projects Show Steady Improvements
By
Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in WindStats Vol 8 No 4, (Autumn 1995). Data from the California Energy ... Read more
Tilting at Windmills: Public Opinion Toward Wind Energy
By
Paul Gipe
Surveys point to broad support for wind energy despite vocal objections to some projects.
Wind Power Plants: What Are They?
By
Paul Gipe
What then is a wind power plant? Generally it is any cluster of wind turbines used for the bulk generation of electricity. A wind plants contrasts with a single wind turbine used to meet on-site needs that characterized wind energy before development began in California. Wind plants vary widely in size. In California, project size has grown with the industry. Today wind plants range from 40 to 400 turbines. In Europe, arrays are much smaller, averaging in the tens of machines.
Design as if People Matter: Aesthetic Guidelines for the Wind Industry
By
Paul Gipe
Note: The graphics to this article were lost when my original web site crashed in the fall of 2022. For ... Read more
Jules Verne Looks at Wind
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Paul Gipe
Jules Verne’s long lost novel “Paris in the 20th Century” contains an interesting passage on windmills by the father of ... Read more
Wind Turbine Tower Trends
By
Paul Gipe
An edited version of this article appeared in WindStatsVol 8 No 1, (1st Quarter 1995) Portions of this article were ... Read more
Wind Energy Comes of Age
By
Paul Gipe
John Wiley & Sons, Inc New York (1995) Never again will wind energy be seen as the domain of a ... Read more
Public Safety and Setbacks
By
Paul Gipe
Excerpted from Wind Energy Comes of Age by Paul Gipe, John Wiley & Sons, Inc New York (1995), ... Read more
The Land of the Living: The Danish Folk High Schools and Denmark’s Non-Violent Path to Modernization by Steven Borish
By
Paul Gipe
The book, Land of the Living, is based on Borish's study of the Danish folkehøjskol system in the early 1980s. His book is an articulate examination of Danish culture. His theme is that Denmark could -- should -- be used as a model for the post modern development of the USA in what he calls, paraphrasing E.F. Schumacher, "development with a human face."
California or Bust: the Wind Energy Rush of 99?
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Paul Gipe
The following is an editorial (leader) which appeared in Windpower Monthly. Since this editorial appeared the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ... Read more
Let’s Put Wind Energy on the California Map
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Paul Gipe
The following is an editorial (leader) which appeared in Windpower Monthly. By mid 1996 no wind energy visitor center ... Read more
Fayette Reborn in Major Restructuring
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Paul Gipe
Fayette Energy Corp., the troubled Altamont Pass operator of a 143 MW wind plant plagued by debt, a low-paying avoided ... Read more
