News & Articles on Wind Energy
This is an archive of articles and news on both large and small wind turbines, wind energy & the environment, and links to topics on the history of wind energy.
I’ve been working with wind energy since 1976 and my professional experience in the subject runs the gamut from wind resource assessment to installing and testing small wind turbines. I continue to follow the industry and analyze its growth and increasing contribution to renewable electricity generation worldwide.
For newcomers to wind energy I’ve added pages from my previous books explaining terms used in the industry.
- 200 Term Multilingual Lexicon: The lexicon translates English terms into five different languages: Dansk, Deutsch, Español, Français, and Italiano.
- Glossary of Wind Energy Terminology: The glossary was written by Paul Gipe and Bill Canter in the late-1990s. I’ve added the glossary to my web site for both its historical content—many of the terms were in use during the 1980s and 1990s—and as a reference for the thousands of newcomers to the wind industry since it was first published.
The English Windmill Video by Martyn Taylor
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Paul Gipe
Martyn Taylor has made a wonderful video about the development and preservation of the English windmill. Sales of the video will go to preservation efforts.
Movie Madness: New Additions to Cultural Icons–Wallpaper, Quilts, and More
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A few decades ago a theme–or meme in today’s parlance–among wind energy aficionados was movies or TV shows that included scenes of wind turbines. We dubbed the theme Movie Madness.
Raptor Center study is a step toward avoiding wind turbine deaths
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Jim Williams
Researchers, including Dr. Julia Ponder, executive director of the Raptor Center, want to learn what frequencies and levels of sound can be heard by the birds, and their reactions to them.
ROBERT PRICE: Why wind energy is a multi-faceted disaster, according to Trump
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Robert Price
America’s foremost scholar on the power-generating prowess of wind turbines has been challenged by a lesser expert from Bakersfield. That foremost scholar, according to President Trump, is President Trump. The dissenting expert is Paul Gipe, author of “Wind Energy for the Rest of Us: A Comprehensive Guide to Wind Power and How to Use It,” a 1,100-page compendium of all things windy.
Beating swords into plowshares or wind turbines & solar panels: We could have done it
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Paul Gipe
Yes, the United States could be generating 100% of its electricity from renewable energy if we had used the money spent on our ill-advised wars in the Middle East to build wind and solar systems, as well as battery storage, here at home. That’s the startling conclusion of a simple calculation my colleague Robert Freehling and I made after the latest reports on the economic cost of our wars in the Middle East.
Musselroe Wind Farm to deploy bird protecting radar in Australian first trial
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Michael Mazengarb
Tasmania’s Musselroe Wind Farm will undertake an Australian first trial of new radar technology that the operators hope will help reduce instances of collisions with wedge-tailed eagles.
