Wind Power

[ad] By Poornima Gupta - SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Technology giant Intel Corporation is seeing big opportunities in wind forecasting for power generation, and in information management for electric vehicles, John Skinner, Intel's director of marketing for its Eco-Technology division said on Tuesday. Intel already sells microprocessors to wind turbine manufacturers and this would be an expansion of that business. Adoption of wide-scale wind power would rely on accurate forecasting, such as when the wind would blow and how fast, he said. "There's a lot ... Read More

[ad] ALTERNATIVE ENERGY - OCEAN THERMAL ENERGY – THE FACTS – A process called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) uses the heat energy stored in the Earth's oceans to generate electricity. OTEC works best when the temperature difference between the warmer, top layer of the ocean and the colder, deep ocean water is about 20°C (36°F). These conditions exist in tropical coastal areas, roughly between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. To bring the cold water to the surface, OTEC plants require ... Read More

    [ad] By Camille Ricketts - Engineering giant Siemens has made its presence felt in the wind business, winning six contracts to build 565-megawatts worth of wind turbines, valued at more than $900 million. About 250 of the turbines will be installed in Ontario Canada, with the other 750 (enough to power 170,000 homes) destined for wind farms in California, Oklahoma, Washington and Wyoming (for a project owned and operated by Duke Energy). Having first entered the wind market five years ago, Siemens is steadily climbing ... Read More

[ad] Danish wind manufacturer Vestas is planning to invest  $380m in Gujarat, Kutch - India. The world's number one wind power solutions provider Vestas is increasing its installed capacity in Gujarat after the third largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, Suzlon Energy, has already decided to expand the capacity of its wind farm in Kutch. Vestas has already got a wind power generation capacity of 60 Mw in Gujarat. "Vestas is planning to install another 250 Mw capacity in Kutch in the next one ... Read More

    [ad] Wind Turbine Manufacturers and Wind Turbine Companies are listed here in alphabetical order. A comprehensive list of all world wide major Wind Turbine manufacturers and companies with links to their home page. The listed manufacturers and companies are specialists in the wind energy and wind power manufacturing sector producing horizontal axis wind turbines (HAWT) as well as vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT). Wind turbine designs have undergone dramatic changes since the first windmill structure invented in 1888 by Charles F. Brush's which ... Read More

[ad] World Wind Maps - Wind Atlases of the World. This article provides you with essential links to world wide wind maps. The maps contain data on the wind speed and wind direction in a region. Typically, a climatological wind atlas covers hourly averages at a standard height (10 meter) over even longer periods (30 years). You can make use of a wind atlas when you are looking into pre-selecting wind farm sites. The wind atlas methodology and has been applied in more than 100 countries and territories around the ... Read More

    [ad] How to buy a wind turbine - important hints and tips! Buying a wind turbine or wind generator can be very difficult. Especially when you are considering to purchase a larger wind turbine system to achieve excess electricity to sell back to the grid. Whether you’re looking for a small wind turbine, residential turbine, an industrial mega watt turbine or an entire wind farm, we’re here to help. We want to make sure that you buy the right wind turbine delivering you the right ... Read More

[ad] How to sell electricity back to the grid? A detailed guide to selling electricity back to your local utility and how to make a profit with a larger sized wind turbine installed on your private land. What is the right size wind turbine and what do I need to do? We have three topics for which we receive questions nearly every day and basically the topics are always of one and the same nature: • Selling power back to the grid • Selling energy ... Read More

Jay says it right: "Every couple of month something new and exciting comes out..." This is the MagWind from Enviro-Energies. It magnetically levitates and starts with almost no wind! Same Turbine on Ed Begley's house. Jay has so far cut his elecrtical bill by 2/3! Read More

[ad] Used wind Turbines and used Wind Generators from MywindPowerSystem.com. We are proud to announce the launch of the world's first public 'Renewable Energy Marketplace' for new and used wind turbines, solar power systems, jobs in the wind energy sector, wind turbine spare parts and accesories, land for wind farm or solar farms. MyWindPowerSystem's classified ads section is dedicated to and specialized in the renewable energy sector. Your one stop shop for all your requirements to sell and buy new and used wind energy ... Read More

[ad] GALWAY, IRELAND - 15th September 2009 - The world's first full-scale floating wind turbine, StatoilHydro's 'Hywind,' took to the high seas last week for a two-year trial that will lead to wind turbines that can be deployed in much deeper waters than currently possible. Is the future of wind power floating off the Norwegian coast? Floating wind towers may someday allow turbines to be installed far offshore out of view from land, outside shipping lanes and where ocean winds are strongest. The primary intention ... Read More

[ad] The Solar Power and Wind Power Predictor - Promo Video When planning to install a Solar Power or Wind Power System, predicting the expected Solar and Wind Power output at your location can be very difficult. MyWindPowerSystem.com has come across a brilliant piece of equipment named The Solar and Wind Power Predictor. This excellent piece of equipment does exactly what it says on the box. It predicts your expected Solar and Wind Power output which can be achieved in any location ... Read More

[ad] Ocean wave energy is captured directly from surface waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface. Waves are caused by the wind blowing over the surface of the ocean. In many areas of the world, the wind blows with enough consistency and force to provide continuous waves. There is tremendous energy in the ocean waves. Wave power devices extract energy directly from the surface motion of ocean waves or from pressure fluctuations below the surface.  Wave power varies considerably in different parts of ... Read More

[ad] This is the story of Raymond Ellis, a former Mechanical Drawing Student from Shorewood, Illinois, Inventor and Director of the TWECS project and his work on TWECS (Tornado Wind Energy Conversion System), the tornado generating wind turbine that really sucks! Since the young age of 17, Raymond Ellis is working on taking a concept developed in 1972 by former Grumman Aerospace engineer James T. Yen to another level - the realization and construction of the world’s first tornado generating wind turbine which has ... Read More

It is rumoured that BP is reportedly to sell its domestic Indian Wind Power Assets to a private equity fund named IDFC for INR6.5 billion ($133.8 million), the Economic Times reports. The fund will pay for the transaction in two tranches, with the initial payment totaling INR3.5 billion, the Web site said. BP has currently 40 megawatts of assets in Maharashtra and 60 megawatts in Karnataka. A spokesperson for IDFC Private Equity declined to comment. Anshul Mathur, a spokesman for BP India, also declined ... Read More

This article shows a high quality video animation explaining in an easy to understand demonstration and language how wind power actually works. Great and usefull high level information for the excited newcomer to wind power. [ad] 1.) Modern wind turbines start generating electricity at a wind speed of approximately 9mph. As wind speed increases so does electrical output. At storm force over 55mph, they cut out to prevent damage to the turbine 2.) A Yaw Drive turns the turbine to face directly into the wind. ... Read More

This part 1 of our comprehensive 'Scientific Series' covers all aspects of 'Energy Storage' which is required in the process of harnessing energy generated from Wind Power and Solar Power. [ad] ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM Electricity is more versatile in use because it is a highly ordered form of energy that can be converted efficiently into other forms. For example, it can be converted into mechanical form with efficiency near 100 percent or into heat with 100 percent efficiency. The heat energy, on the other hand, cannot be converted into ... Read More

[ad] Gebrauchte Windkraftanlagen, gebrauchte Windgeneratoren, gebrauchte Windturbinen und gebrauchte Windräder von MywindPowerSystem.com. Wir sind stolz darauf Ihnen heute den ersten wirklichen OnLine 'Erneuerbare Energie Marketplatz' vorzustellen. Hier finden Sie gebrauchte Windturbinen, Windkraftanlagen, Windräder, Solaranlagen, Windturbinenersatzteile, Zubehör, Jobs und Arbeitsplätze im Windenergie Sektor und vieles mehr. MyWindPowerSystem's classified ads section is dedicated to and specialized in the renewable energy sector. Your one stop shop for all your requirements to sell and buy new and used wind energy equipment from around the world. All major manufacturers ... Read More

Alternative Energy - SOLAR POWER (solar panels) [ad] Solar energy is one the most resourceful sources of energy for the future. One of the reasons for this is that the total energy we receive each year from the sun is around 35,000 times the total energy used by man. However, about 1/3 of this energy is either absorbed by the outer atmosphere or reflected back into space (a process called Albedo). Solar energy is presently being used on a smaller scale in furnaces for homes ... Read More

[ad] Alternative Energy - The Facts - Tidal Energy - Part 5 TIDAL ENERGY Even the power of the tides can be harnessed to produce electricity. Similar to the more conventional hydroelectric dams, the tidal process utilizes the natural motion of the tides to fill reservoirs, which are then slowly discharged through electricity-producing turbines. The former USSR produced 300 MW in its Lumkara plant using this method.   Advantages • Tides rise and fall every day in a very consistent pattern. • Economic life of a tidal power plant. A plant is ... Read More

GEOTHERMAL ENERGY [ad] Geothermal energy is an alternative energy source, although it is not resourceful enough to replace more than a minor amount of the future's energy needs. Geothermal energy is obtained from the internal heat of the planet and can be used to generate steam to run a steam turbine. This in turn generates electricity, which is a very useful form of energy.   There are many Geothermal hotspots which are volcanic features found all around the world. Basically a hotspot is an area of ... Read More

Concentrated Solar Power Systems use concentrated solar radiation as a high temperature energy source to produce electrical power and drive chemical reactions. Concentrating solar power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated light is then used as a heat source for a conventional power plant or is concentrated onto photovoltaic surfaces. The first recorded use of such a technique was in 212 BC when Archimedes is said to ... Read More