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Original Technorati articles tagged “wind power”

• in Green
  Groovy Green Goodness: Wearable Plants, Anime Style Electric Bikes
  Also Waste To Energy, A Cool WInd Turbine
  by namarchetti / on May 18, 2012
• in Green
  US Risks Falling Behind Developing Nations in Electricity Technology
  Developing countries are outpacing the U.S. in the race for alternative energy.
  by energizeme / on May 3, 2011
• in Technology
  Crowdsourcing and Idea Farming for Energy Management?
  Idea farming and crowdsourcing represent a new and unique avenue into power management for homes.
  by doylebuehler / on Mar 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “wind power”

 

• Ein Nein zu den vier Windkraft-Flächen

  
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  [No to four wind energy zones — The Burghaun community will reject the four wind energy development zones in the municipality because of the threat to a rare bat species, red kites, lapwings, and cranes, as well as noise and shadows that would affect the whole municipality.] Die Gemeinde Burghaun wird die vier ...
  11 hours ago

• Turbine Plans Unnerve Fans of Condors in California

  
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  Environmentalists are worried that a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert could affect the fragile condor population.        
  14 hours ago

• L’éolien ne nuit pas à la santé s’il répond à certaines conditions

  
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  [Wind energy safe if certain conditions met — The Belgian Superior Health Council concludes that taking into account the larger context of quality of life, annoyance caused by wind turbine noise "constitutes a major environmental health impact". ... The [outdoor] noise level must conform to the WHO limits of 45 ...
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• Turbines complicate sales of abutting homes

  
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  FAIRHAVEN — When Peter Goben, 52, first met his wife Christine, he thought it was fate that they both had grown up in New Bedford but dreamed of living in Fairhaven. Together they built a house in town, raised five children there, and never thought they’d leave, Goben said, until the turbines came. Goben’s Teal ...
  22 hours ago

• Anger at wind-farm loophole

  
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  Calls have been made for the UK Government to close an “embarrassing” loophole that allows some wind-farm operators to name their own price as compensation for not operating. The issue has been raised by the regulator Ofgem, but the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) confirmed the loophole exists but ...
  22 hours ago

• BLM approves major project that critics say threatens California condors

  
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  The Obama administration announced today it has granted final approval of the Alta East Wind Project in Southern California that includes a first-ever authorization allowing the project proponent to injure or kill an endangered condor during the 30-year life of the project. The Bureau of Land Management’s ...
  22 hours ago

• Castle & Cooke moving forward with Hawaii ‘Big Wind’ project

  
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  One half of Hawaii’s controversial 400-megawatt “Big Wind” project — in which large wind farms on Lanai and Molokai would pump electricity to Honolulu via an undersea cable — is still moving forward. Castle & Cooke Inc., which kept the rights to build a wind farm capable of producing up to 200 megawatts ...
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• “Historic” energy bill clears legislative committee, 12-1

  
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  AUGUSTA — A bill aimed at lowering the costs of energy while dramatically changing the way Mainers consume it vaulted out of a key legislative committee on a 12-1 vote Friday. The vote came after months of hearings, negotiations, compromises and outright wrangling among Democrats, Republicans and Gov. Paul ...
  22 hours ago

• Suffolk coast Galloper offshore windfarm given go-ahead

  
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  The expansion of an offshore windfarm that the government says could power up to 500,000 homes and boost Suffolk’s economy by £20m has been approved. An extra 140 turbines will be erected at the Greater Gabbard windfarm and power will come ashore at Sizewell. The Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc) said ...
  22 hours ago

• Google X Buys Airborne Wind Turbine Company Makani Power

  
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  Google X, the tech giant’s top secret experimental branch , recently announced that it will take over Makani Power , a startup that develops wind turbines that fly through the air like a kite, rather than being mounted on massive poles cemented into the ground. The acquisition is just one of many significant ...
  1 day ago

• Hundreds attend public hearing on turbines

  
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  CHARLESTOWN – Hundreds turned out for a public hearing before the Charlestown Zoning Board Tuesday, the latest chapter in the quest of Whalerock Renewable Energy LLC to erect two wind turbines in the town. Several residents in opposition to the turbines met attendees at the door handing out stickers that read, ...
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• Lambton Shores ‘not a willing host’ to turbines

  
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  Lambton Shores Council has joined dozens of municipalities which say they are ‘not willing hosts’ to industrial wind turbines. Municipalities have had little say in the planning of the projects since the province brought in the Green Energy Act. It overruled any local planning authority. At the time, then- Premier ...
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• IEA warns Germany on soaring green dream costs

  
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  Germany’s push for wind and solar and its retreat from nuclear power is driving electricity costs to untenable levels and destroying support for the green agenda, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. “The fact that German electricity prices are among the highest in Europe, must serve as a warning ...
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• Ingen vindmøller hos de rige — No wind turbines near the rich

  
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  [The expensive communities of North Zealand, where all of the wind-energy directors and the wind-happy ministers live, are the only place in the country that is virtually without a single wind turbine, despite open fields and an undeveloped coastline.] Mens ministre og direktører i den magtfulde vindindustri står i ...
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• Feds won’t prosecute wind farm if turbine blades kill a condor

  
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  Federal wildlife officials on Friday for the first time agreed not to prosecute a developer if an endangered California condor is struck and killed by turbine blades at its proposed wind farm in the Tehachapi Mountains, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. In granting a right-of-way, the U.S. Bureau of Land ...
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• Neighbors react to town’s vote to not dismantle wind turbines

  
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  In the wake of Tuesday’s vote on Question 2, neighbors said the town will either have to purchase their homes or remove the turbines, with no room for compromise. “Obviously the town wants to keep the turbines up and somehow deal with the abutters,” said Neil P. Andersen of Blacksmith Shop Road, who has filed a ...
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• Hydro ‘funds for votes’ accusation

  
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  The State government-owned company Hydro Tasmania has been accused of offering incentives to committee members on King Island abattoir projects to secure votes for the company’s feasibility study into the TasWind project – a 600-megawatt wind farm proposed for the island. Hydro Tasmania employees – new ...
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• Broken windmill in Saco takes turn for better

  
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  SACO – The windmill at the Amtrak train station in Saco, which hasn’t been spinning in recent months, will undergo minor repairs and maintenance. Howard Carter, director of the city’s water resource recovery division, said the windmill was recently restarted and a minor oil leak was discovered May 13. “We ...
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• Power-to-Gas System in Germany Uses Sun and Wind to Make Natural Gas

  
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  Germany is about to start a new phase in its energy revolution with a project that is meant to use captured carbon dioxide, use solar and wind power to produce hydrogen from water, and combine all of them to produce natural gas, aka methane. The project, named “Power to Gas” (P2G), aims to use the [...] The post ...
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• Airborne Wind Turbine Company Makani Power Bought by Google

  
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  Makani Power, the company who made an airborne wind turbine a few years ago, has been acquired by Google for an undisclosed sum. Google had already invested about $15 million in them and if they bought the idea it may mean there’s something worth following about Makani. The Makani Power team will now joing Google ...
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