Stuff we found lying around

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August 2011: DSWJS: Fowl play?

July 2011: Guardian: UK sails ahead in offshore wind power generation Britain has built more offshore windfarms than any country in the world, says the European Wind Energy Association.

BIG GAP HERE... SORRY... TOO BUSY W/OTHER THINGS (like research, teaching, grad. students...).

October 2010: NYT: Northeast US to get wired for wind! "The system's backbone cable, with a capacity of 6,000 megawatts, equal to the output of five large nuclear reactors, would run in shallow trenches on the seabed in federal waters 15 to 20 miles offshore, from northern New Jersey to Norfolk, Va. The notion would be to harvest energy from turbines in an area where the wind is strong but the hulking towers would barely be visible."

September 2010: NYT: Tocco da Casauria, in central Italy, produces more electricity than it uses, making money off the surplus

September 2010: BBC: Largest offshore wind farm opens off UK coast

August 2010: NYT: Portugal (a shining example of where we should be!)

August 2010: BBC: tidal turbines off Scotland

June 2010: Go Wind Power Out West

May 2010: Large Air Spill at Wind Farm (and only two weeks after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico).

April 2010: NYT: Well, finally, after NINE years.... and in the same week that saw the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Drill baby drill = Spill baby Spill?

April 2010: A Banner Year for Wind Power: ...according to the New York Times ("A record 10,010 megawatts of new wind capacity was installed in the United States last year, accounting for 39 percent of new electrical generation, the American Wind Energy Association said in its annual report. That raises the nation's total wind energy capacity to more than 35,000 megawatts, or enough electricity to keep the lights on in 9.7 million homes").

February 2010: American Innovation: Wind and Speed Now if they can just apply that to turbine design...

January 2010: China leading the race... (NYT, Jan 30, 2010).

January 2010: New UK offshore wind farm licences announced (BBC Jan 8, 2010)

December 2009: I want to be a RAT (Rope Access Technician) Tied to the Job (NY Times video and related article by Kate Galbraith

October 2009: CA & TX: A paradox? (NYT October 17, 2009).

October 2009: China could relinquish its dependence on coal by taking advantage of its wind resources (Science, via Nature).

October 2009: Wal-Mart uses wind energy (from November 2008; just discovered this)

September 2009: Hawaii and renewables... (NYT)

September 2009: World's First Floating Turbine (BBC) (thanks to the BBC, Hywind, Statoil, and Norway).

August 2009: Green energy hit by 'faceless Nimbys' in the UK I'm with Ed on this: "In 10 years' time people will look back and think, 'gosh, there was a huge fuss about this idea of renewable energy and wind energy but actually it was the right thing to do" -- Ed Miliband, Energy Minister).

August 2009: mostly away at NASA meeting/fieldwork in Alaska, so no news.

William Kamkwamba: YT video. Here he is being interviewed at TED. More here at Moving Windmills. Here is William's blog. Once again, hats off to the BBC for picking this up.

July 2009: A U.S. National Academy of Sciences paper: there's plenty of wind to go around. NYT quote "Using data from thousands of meteorological stations, the Harvard team estimated the world wind power potential to be 40 times greater than total current power consumption. A previous study cited in the paper put that multiple at about 7 times." This study used satellite remote sensing. NYT quoting AWEA: "further validation of what we've be saying -- that the United States is the Saudi Arabia of wind". Tip to New York Times. There is a larger map here.

July 2009: Short BBC video: How do you build a wind farm out at sea?

July 2009: Britain Could Be Wind and Wave Titan (NYT: Green Inc.)

July 2009: China surges ahead in renewables... (NYT). More opinion on China and environment (BBC). Tom Friedman comments...

July 2009: Wind 'can revolutionise UK power' (BBC)

June 2009: China to have wind energy capacity of 100 GW by 2020 -- currently 12 GW (China Wind Systems/ChinaWatch/TheStreet video)

June 2009: Floating turbines off Norway... (BBC News, Siemens Hywind 2.4 MW... to be launched by Statoil!)

June 2009: Wind and ranching: made for each other (BBC: Ranchers driving wind revolution + video).

I'm posting this BBC video again: as this is the one Dr. C. went up in 2007. Please listen for the deafening sound of the turbine blades turning just behind the presenter! (from BBC News: "RSPB calls for more UK wind farms", RSPB = "The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds").

May 2009: Europe's largest wind farm from the air: in Scotland (BBC)

May 2009: Glasgow, Scotland, goes renewable in a big way Congrats to the Scots. From the BBC: "Europe's largest wind farm to be expanded". Locals: "not as bad as we thought; could be good for the village".

May 2009: Save Birds by Promoting Wind Energy

May 2009: Er.... did we mention SUZLON? (oh, yes yes, we did, in May 2008).

May 2009: Work under way on large UK East coast wind farm (BBC)

May 2009: and now.... Colorado (note: "Today, most of the precision components for wind turbines are made in Europe and Asia." Why?).

April 2009: Spain leads the way... (stop the video/music first! uh, click on the video to pause it)

April 2009: RSPB calls for more UK wind farms (er, Earth to BBC: define your acronyms! RSPB = "The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds"). Surprised? the RSPB view

March 2009: Cape Wind: Plan for huge wind farm moves forward (Reuters) Well I wouldn't call it huge, Bob. Remember this? (Daily Show) (stop the video/music first!)

March 2009: Electric Cars--How Much Does It Cost per Charge? (SCIAM)

March 2009: Denmark's Wind of Change (TIME)

March 2009: (another) Wind-Power Record for Spain (New York Times): 40% of national supply.

February 2009: Turbines in Alaska (New York Times)

January 2009: A Cleaner Way to Keep the City Running? (New York Times). Pros and cons! .
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