In The Wake of Wind is a powerful 33-minute color film that tells the dramatic story of the rise of … Read more
History of Wind Power
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
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.
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog is famous in the annals of wind energy. The polder in Schleswig-Holstein’s Dithmarshen kreis hosted Germany’s first wind farm … Read more
While researching material for an article on the 100 kW Soviet wind turbine at Balaklava, Etienne Rogier sent me an … Read more
Were there two wind turbines tested on South Barrule on the Isle of Man in the early 1960s, not just … Read more
Thirty years after its publication by John Wiley & Sons, I’ve put Wind Energy Comes of Age in the public domain. The digital copy of the more than 500-page book is now open access and is available for reading on line or it can be downloaded in its entirety for free.
You can find the open access digital version here: Wind energy comes of age by Paul Gipe.
Print copies can still be found at used bookstores or in university libraries.
