Rune Anders, Author at Green Energy News

The Royals and Wind Power- A Whiff of Hypocrisy?

Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, once called a windfarm “a blot on the landscape”. However it’ll be interested to see if he changes… Read the rest..

Wind, Hot Air and Wuthering

Campaigners against a plan to build wind turbines on moors associated with the Bronte sisters are making their final attempt to coerce councillors and planners to… Read the rest..

Semi-sentient Wind Turbines?: They Learn Like Humans

Could we soon be seeing semi-sentient Wind Turbines, that are able to learn and use that learning? One of the problems of most conventional wind turbines… Read the rest..

Using Trees to Estimate Average Wind Speed: The Griggs-Putnam Index of Plant Deformity

If you have an area that you think may be suitable for the establishment of a wind turbine, but have no historical data on average wind… Read the rest..

Wind Power comes to Thailand

Thailand’s commitment to modernizing its electrical network with a nationwide smart grid took another step forward in the last weeks with its order for 90 Siemens… Read the rest..

Natural Gas vs Wind Energy

by Colin Houghton I came across an interesting and uplifting article by Stephen Lacey in Climate progress magazine this week, comparing and contrasting the threat that… Read the rest..

Wind Innovations from the United States – The Cape Wind Project

This project certainly isn’t small-scale! Imagine a turbine, taller than the Statue of Liberty. Then imagine a curve of them stretching for 25 miles around an… Read the rest..

Irrational Tory MPs Lobby Prime Minister to Cut Subsidies for Wind Turbines

Just when the UK Government hoped that the boat had stopped rocking following the resignation of former Energy Secretary Geoff Huhne last week, more than 100… Read the rest..

World Wind Power Grows by 6%

By Colin Houghton The world’s capacity for harnessing wind power increased by 41Gw in 2011, according to figures from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released… Read the rest..

Wind Power Development in Northern Ireland

On the North Eastern part of Ireland, Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, is well placed to benefit from wind power. It has the highest… Read the rest..