With the completion of this wind plant, events have come full circle. The flow of visitors seeking information about wind energy has reversed. The intellectual, technical, and may I say “moral” momentum has shifted from the United States to Europe.
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L’énergie éolienne, aujourd’hui viable sur le plan commercial, peut combler une partie importante des besoins énergétiques. L’image qu’on se fait aujourd’hui de l’énergie éolienne n’a plus rien à voir avec la vision romantique du meunier aux cheveux blanchis par la farine ferlant les voiles de son moulin à vent. Cette source énergétique est devenue une réalité commerciale incontournable. Qu’il s’agisse de combler les besoins d’un nomade mongol, de paysannes puisant leur eau dans un puits au Maroc, d’un fermier du Minnesota, d’une coopérative au Danemark ou d’un travailleur de l’une des nombreuses éoliennes de Californie, l’électricité produite par la force des vents montre qu’un approvisionnement énergétique durable n’est plus un réve.
These comments were posted to awea-windnet and subsequently noise from the AWT 26 was abated. Eventually the turbines were … Read more
Un aperçu sur l’exploitation de l’énergie éolienne en Amérique du Nord et en Europe: capacité installée, production, performance et évolution du marché.
Note: The graphics to this article were lost when my original web site crashed in the fall of 2022. For … Read more
The Guide discusses how landowners can evaluate their wind resources, how they can evaluate the economics of wind power under a variety of development scenarios, and the contractual issues a landowner should consider when approached by a wind developer. . .
Jules Verne’s long lost novel “Paris in the 20th Century” contains an interesting passage on windmills by the father of … Read more
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.”
The following is an editorial (leader) which appeared in Windpower Monthly. Since this editorial appeared the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission … Read more
Comments by the American Wind Energy Association on Repowering California’s Wind Industry for the California Energy Commission’s 1994 Biennial Report
