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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”

 

• Bladeless, funnel-based wind turbine claims huge efficiency gains

  
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  As governments all over the globe continue inching toward renewable energy sources, there continue to be a few sticking points. One company out of Minnesota claims to have a new wind power generation…
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• Portuguese Family and Horses Affected by Low-Frequency Wind Turbine Noise

  
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  On the Impact of Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise on Public Health — Two Cases of Residential Exposure Abstract: Noise exposure is known to cause hearing loss and a variety of disturbances, such as annoyance, hypertension and loss of sleep. It is generally accepted that these situations are caused by the ...
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• Maine Floating Turbine Gets Ready To Launch

  
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  Maine’s governor might be giving wind power a cold shoulder , but that’s not slowing down a team at the University of Maine as it aims to deploy the country’s first grid-connected floating offshore wind turbine. This week, the DeepCWind Consortium at the Advanced Structures and Composites Center at the ...
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• Cape Vincent’s town board, WPEG apply for 99% of intervenor funds

  
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  The town government hopes to hire several experts — three in conjunction with the Wind Power Ethics Group — to review and critique BP’s Cape Vincent Wind Project proposal with intervenor funding made available under Article X. Of the $99,750 the wind developer was required to provide under state law, Cape ...
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• Companies won’t face charges in condor deaths

  
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  Federal wildlife officials took the unprecedented step Friday of telling private companies that they will not be prosecuted for inadvertently harassing or even killing endangered California condors. In a decision swiftly condemned by conservationists and wildlife advocates, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said ...
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• Wind woes recounted

  
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  DEMORESTVILLE — Monica Elmes insists some of her quality of life has gone with the wind since a large wind turbine farm started tapping wind energy near her Ridgetown, Ont. farm three years ago. Elmes made the statements before the long-awaited human health phase of the Ostrander Point Environmental Review Tribunal ...
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• Calls to halt work on energy power line while birds nest

  
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  A leading naturalist has warned of a “cavalier attitude to wildlife” during construction of a controversial power line. Sir John Lister-Kaye is concerned about work being carried out on the Beauly-to-Denny power line, which he believes is disturbing nesting birds and other creatures. He claims helicopters ...
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• Lack of wind halts Scituate wind turbine studies

  
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  Sound engineers hired to find out whether Scituate’s wind turbine is too noisy haven’t started testing yet because the weather hasn’t cooperated, the turbine’s owner said. Gordon Deane of Palmer Capital says Tech Environmental of Waltham is waiting for windier overnight conditions before it tests the noise ...
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• Falmouth board’s wind turbine vote perplexes officials

  
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  Town officials are unsure about the next step in Falmouth’s wind turbine tumult after a town board declared turbine noise coming from the town wastewater treatment plant to be a nuisance. The Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals decision overturned Building Commissioner Eladio Gore’s determination that noise from Wind ...
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• Portsmouth council to hear wind turbine update Monday

  
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  PORTSMOUTH — The Town Council will get an update on the town’s broken wind turbine from Town Planner Gary Crosby Monday night. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. In 2007 voters approved a $3 million bond issue for the turbine, which sits behind the tennis courts at the high school. It’s been idle since ...
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• Hoopeston wind farm building permit extended for a year

  
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  DANVILLE — Vermilion County has extended for another year Apex Wind Energy’s building permit for the proposed 43-turbine Hoopeston Wind Project west of Rossville. The extension gives the Virginia-based company until April 2014 to break ground. The extension also allows the project to adhere to parameters set out ...
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• County looks at wind ordinance; Apex seeks extension

  
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  DANVILLE — The issue of wind turbines in Vermilion County will continue at Tuesday’s county board meeting. Board members are slated to receive the recommendation report from the Wind Panel Advisory Board as well as discuss the extension of the building permit for the wind turbine project in the Hoopeston area. ...
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• Prince Harry’s concern over ‘visual impact’ of wind farms

  
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  Prince Harry has voiced concerns about the visual impact of wind farms during his tour of America. His comments came as he attended a reception in Denver on Friday night and his views are apparently shared by his father the Prince of Wales. The event was hosted by Beverley Simpson, British consul general for Colorado, ...
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• Falmouth ZBA rules wind turbines are a nuisance

  
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  Wind turbine opponents scored at least a moral victory last night, when the Falmouth Zoning Board of Appeals voted to uphold a noise complaint against Wind 1 by abutter Neil P. Andersen of Blacksmith Shop Road. “Our town bylaw does not exempt the town from causing a nuisance,” Matthew J. McNamara, chairman of the ...
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• After turbulent hearing, supervisors postpone action on wind ordinance to May 15

  
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  After more than three hours of heated testimony on Tuesday, San Diego Supervisors opted to delay a decision on a controversial wind ordinance and changes to plans for two backcountry communities until May 15. The postponement came after a lawyer representing rural residents sent a last-minute letter claiming that ...
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• Council blows cold on wind turbines

  
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  It will be in the hands of An Bord Pleanála, but if Mullingar’s town councillors had a say, Westmeath would remain free of wind turbines. At their April meeting, councillors unanimously voiced their opposition to the development of windfarms here and neighbouring counties. Cllr Ken Glynn said local opposition to ...
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• Ostrander Appeal turns to industrial wind turbine impacts upon humans

  
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  After many, many hours of expert testimony from dozens of witnesses, the Environmental Review Tribunal examining the decision to approve an industrial wind turbine project at Ostrander Point is shifting gears this week, turning from plants and animals to humans. For the better part of the last two months ERT panel ...
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• Wind turbine technicians to begin work-to-rule on Monday; Siemens refuses to negotiate with union representing staff

  
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  Wind power generating companies in the west of the country could find themselves without maintenance services next week if industrial action planned by Siemens’ technicians goes ahead. Members of the Technical Engineering & Electrical Union (TEEU) employed by Siemens Ireland Ltd, who service and repair wind ...
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• Vatenfall looking to sell stake in Trump wind farm

  
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  Fresh doubts were raised today about the future of the controversial offshore wind farm being opposed by Donald Trump. Speculation about the fate of the contentious project intensified after Swedish company Vattenfall – Europe’s sixth-largest generator of electricity – announced plans to put its 75 per cent ...
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• PSC reopens Highland Wind Farm hearing

  
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  The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin has reopened the hearing related to the Highland Wind Farm project in St. Croix County. After rejecting the developer’s application earlier last month, the PSC said it will allow Emerging Energies officials to provide further proof that their project, as proposed, would ...
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