The Small Wind Conference presented Paul Gipe with its first Lifetime Achievement Award on 19 June 2013 at its annual award ceremony in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
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I was making the rounds to Upland, Indiana as part of a family reunion. We’d just stuffed ourselves on ice … Read more
In the annals of greenwashing, no wind turbine company has done more to develop the technique to a fine art. It’s as if the company’s entire business model was built on finding participants who wanted a greenwashing project.
Password: mistralmetrodenizen2013–The aim of this framework document is that it can serve as guidance, as far as
it is practical, to those seeking to navigate and obtain approval for
decommissioning wind turbines in the built environment or in urban settings.
I’ve posted photos of small wind turbines from my archives, including photos of Aircon, Aeroman, Bergey, Easywind, Endurance, Enertech-AOC, Fayette, Gaia, Grumman, Jacobs, Mehrkam, Northern Power, Southwest Windpower, StormMaster, Swiss Elektro, Thy Møllen, UTRC-Windtech, Vergnet, Wenco, Wincharger, and Wind Engineering.
The total number of small wind turbines installed all over the world reached 730’000 units as of the end of 2011 after 656’000 units in 2010, after 521’000 in 2009 and 460’000 in 2008. These small wind turbines represent a total capacity of around 576 MW (end of 2011), compared with a total capacity of 240 GW of large wind turbines.
Carol Curtis, the director of the Coconino County Career Center, said employees were told by Southwest Windpower officials Wednesday that the facility in Flagstaff was going to be closed and they should “leave quickly.”. .
Build Your Own Small Wind Power System was written by a small wind systems dealer, Kevin Shea, and a professional journalist, Brian Howard. Be forewarned, this is a big book. It’s a modern book. It uses all the techniques necessary to keep modern readers attentive: sidebars, bullet points, and copious illustrations. . .
This is the history of wind turbine design breakthroughs. Paul Gipe, a prolific and respected writer on wind power, has seen a million of them. I asked him his view of the Catching Wind Power Compressed Air Enclosed Wind Turbine, which has been in the news a bit this past week after a New Jersey engineering firm put out a press release announcing it was looking for investors to help take the device from prototype to ready-to-manufacture product. Gipe wrote back: “It’s not original. It’s not new. It’s not significant in any way. It will be gone in a few years.”. .
DWEA believes the current lack of turbine certification and siting criteria under the various LEED rating systems is hurting the distributed wind industry and is counter-productive to the intent of LEED. We are requesting that USGBC add criteria that will ensure that the LEED points earned for on-site wind turbines will encourage safe and effective products and proper siting.
