In The Wake of Wind, is a powerful 33-minute color film that tells the dramatic story of the rise of … Read more
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Wind Energy all topics large, small, VAWT and so on.
Dean Thomas, son of Robert Thomas, the designer of the Wind Harvest Vertical Axis Wind Turbine is still plugging away … Read more
I’ve previously written about the history of Wind Harvest’s Vertical Axis Wind Turbine from the mid 1970s. (See Wind Harvest … Read more
Zoë Holliday said the case for community ownership and wealth building had come into sharp focus in the debate about the transition away from oil and gas. Community and publicly owned schemes returned far more to local communities than the £5,000 per MW of capacity typically offered by private projects, she said. “There’s real political will at both Scottish and UK level to support community energy. We could be transforming our communities if we just gave them a stake in this system,” she added.
During the late 1970s Germany’s ministry for technological development BMFT (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung) called Ulrich Hütter out of … Read more
I’ve extracted rare footage of Growian I and II wind turbines from a promotional video by Nordex. The footage from … Read more
I’ve uploaded a series of films on historic wind turbines in operation to the Internet Archive. To help me keep track of them, I’ve posted the links and a short summary here. I’ve included some films in this list that are on YouTube.com as the provenance isn’t clear. Of course videos of operating wind turbines are quite common now, so I am limiting this list to those of historic interest.
Wind Energy for Kids (Wind Energie Kinderleicht) is a little book for little people by Thomas Simons. The 27-page booklet … Read more
Mural on village wall in the central Appenine town Tocco da Casauria depicting the installation of two Riva-Calzoni wind turbines … Read more
