Yes it is. Back in 2022 I wrote two articles on solar and wind-powered EVs. The former I said held … Read more
History of Wind Power
When James Blyth created what many believe was the world’s first wind turbine in 1887, villagers dismissed it as the “work of the devil”.
The huge structure at Blyth’s family home in the Aberdeenshire village of Marykirk was built with four cloth sails and generated enough power to light 10 bulbs along with a small lathe.
It is said that he offered to light the streets of the village with his electricity but the offer was shunned.
Blyth’s vision of a future powered by wind only started to be realised many decades after his death
Because of my critical articles on Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines, Wind Harvest’s Kevin Wolf contacted me with background on what failed … Read more
I fell down another rabbit hole when Klaus Rockenbauer at Global-Windphotos posted images of a group of mystery wind turbines … Read more
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