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.
Wind needs to be competitive against the lowest price of gas, not the average (or the current) price
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Jérôme Guillet
Cheaper and more competitive are not the same.
Sources of opposition to renewable energy projects in the United States
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We identified 53 utility-scale wind, solar, and geothermal energy projects that were delayed or blocked between 2008 and 2021 in 28 U.S. states.
Update on Betz: Everything You Need to Know about Wind Turbines Was Written in 1927
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Paul Gipe
Herr Fedor Seidler has forwarded a link to several lengthy documents summarizing the work of Albert Betz, Ludwig Prandtl, and their colleagues at the University of Göttingen.
California drafts ‘aggressive’ offshore wind energy targets. How does Morro Bay fit in?
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Mackenzie Shuman
The California Energy Commission released a draft report that outlines what some call “aggressive” goals for offshore wind energy development in the Pacific Ocean — and Morro Bay will likely play a key role in helping the state achieve its targets.
Smith-Putnam Stressed Skin Blades and Bridge Construction Spar
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Paul Gipe
Included in the correspondence from Palmer Putnam to Herman Drees is a letter from Richard Heckscher who was involved in blade development on the Smith-Putnam project. (See Palmer Putnam to Herman Drees Letter Reveals Emphasis on Swept Area.) Hecksher had alerted Putnam to the work of Herman Drees in developing Drees’ Cycloturbine.
Palmer Putnam – Herman M. Drees Correspondence 1979
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Paul Gipe
18-page scan of documents in the archives of Wally Thompson of correspondence from Palmer Putnam to Herman Drees in 1979.
