News & Articles on Large Wind Power

Large wind turbines are those used to generate commercial quantities of electricity. This category includes single turbines used in distributed applications as well as arrays of multiple wind turbines used in a wind power plant.

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Carl Wilcox’s Role in the Smith-Putnam Project

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Paul Gipe

To illustrate the role that Carl Wilcox played in the Smith-Putnam project, I’ve pulled together several citations as well as …

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Carl Wilcox References in the Text of Putnam’s Power from the Wind

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Paul Gipe

To further illustrate the role of Carl Wilcox in the Smith-Putnam project, I searched the name index and pulled together …

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Carl Wilcox Citations in Palmer Putnam’s Power from the Wind

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Paul Gipe

In the 1970s Carl Wilcox gave me a box of archive materials on the Smith-Putnam wind turbine project. I had …

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Wind farm noise not harmful to health: New study finds no evidence of wind turbine syndrome

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Sophie Vorrath

Once again another study confirms there are no health impacts from “infrasound.”

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The Rest of the Story: Part 2 of History of Conventional Wind Turbines–the 1970s onward

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Paul Gipe

The historical saga begun by Erik Möllerström and myself finally reaches its conclusion with the publication of Part 2 in …

England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds- the Guardian

Low-Income Group Installs 4.2 MW Wind Turbine in the West of England

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Paul Gipe

Tom Wall of the Guardian reports (England’s tallest wind turbine prepares to rise against the odds) on a community group …