News on Large Wind – Page 4

While interviewing Brian Smith about his early career during the Great California Wind Rush, he mentioned that NREL had done a retrospective on the history of the lab. Specifically, he suggested I take a look at the chapter titled the Wild West of Wind.

Yee ha! Brian was right. He and Walt Musial have some great tales in that chapter. If you weren’t working in California’s wind industry then and you want a flavor of what it was like, take a look. The title is a pretty accurate summary of the times.

While editing an article I stumbled across some photos of a Windane turbine on Pajeula Peak in the Tehachapi Pass. … Read more

Turbine blade with man sitting on it likely putnam

Another article on the history of wind turbine development has been published in the academic publication Wind Engineering, an imprint … Read more

Transpower By Flemming Hagensen Dtu Via Arne Jaeger

If BEV weren’t moving money and turning policy makers’ heads, I likely wouldn’t care. But billionaire adulation isn’t going to solve the climate crisis. Gates and the other founders are creating as many problems and causing secondary organizations and even governments to waste time and money we can ill afford. That’s not because they don’t care, but because they aren’t starting from reality. Investment theses require a very strong basis in reality and climate investments require strong technical due diligence. BEV’s theses in several parts of their portfolio are off base, and their technical due diligence approaches non-existent.

I’ve uploaded a Multilingual Lexicon of more than 200 terms to a Google spreadsheet. The lexicon describes terms used in wind energy in six different languages: English, Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, and Italiano.

WORLDFIRE: A Climate Journey from the Depths of Despair to a Haven of Hope is Tom Weis’ powerful new book … Read more

A dozen more condors are sailing Kern skies as part of a yearslong conservation effort that has recently included local clean energy companies to save the endangered bird.

In a May 1 announcement, energy company Avangrid announced it exceeded conditions set in a conservation plan it created with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2021 to fund the raising of a dozen California condors at the Oregon Zoo.

My historical journey into the deep recesses of wind energy took another odd twist yesterday. I was updating my bibliographic … Read more

During the heyday of the Great California Wind Rush in the early to mid 1980s, there were a handful of … Read more

Tehachapi Windmill-Wildflower Hike 2024 38th hike Paul Gipe and Georgette Theotig will lead a hike among the wind turbines on … Read more