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.
Cycling Cap Added to Cultural Icons
By
Paul Gipe
A new item was added to my pages on cultural icons under the category Cycling.
Wind giant Vestas says it can now fully recycle turbine blades
By
Michelle Lewis
Danish wind turbine giant Vestas has announced today that it, along with a coalition of industry and academic leaders, has figured out how to fully recycle wind turbine blades.
Preben Maegaard—the Father of the Folkecenter–Has Died
By
Paul Gipe
Preben Maegaard died 25 March 2021. He was 84. His death likely won’t mean much to most North Americans. After all he wasn’t a household name like reality TV stars Caitlyn Jenner or Kanye West. It should.
More New Cultural Icons of Wind Turbines
By
Paul Gipe
The job never ends of chronicling the cultural icons that feature windmills and wind turbines. This time it’s cookie cutters–or biscuit cutters as the Brits like to say–and a big, expensive Lego kit.
Local assemblyman’s offshore wind bill passes first committee
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his week, a bill by Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) that would jumpstart offshore wind projects on the Central Coast passed its first committee. AB 525, which would formalize the state’s commitment to developing offshore wind projects in California, passed out of the Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy without a no vote.
Wind—the Breath of Life or the Kiss of Death: Analysis of Wind Energy Fatalities
By
Paul Gipe
Presentation to Winterwind 2021 21 April on a Comparison of Wind’s Fatalities to that of Other Industries. Wind energy’s hazards, like its appearance on the landscape, are readily apparent. Wind energy hides no latent killers, no black lung, for example. When wind kills, it does so directly and with gruesome effect.
