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AWEA presents US as #1 In Wind Power

According to the AWEA’s (The American Wind Energy Association) released annual report for the year ending 2008, the US maintained their #1 positions in several categories with the largest amount of installed wind power capacity even while other leaders emerged in new categories. Twenty four states saw new wind turbine and component manufacturing facilities opened. The… Read the rest

Wind Powered Kids Toy – The Loopwing Toy Car

Teaching our kids on Green Energy at an early age Today’s tiny tots will be tomorrow’s eco designers, politicians, and engineers — so we can’t think of a better way to inspire the next generation to think about renewable energy than by giving them smart toys which use clean power sources like wind and solar. Loopwing’s… Read the rest

Green Bird Wind Power – World Land Sailing Speed Record On Ice

A British man’s plan to break the world land sailing speed record — on ice Earlier this month, MyWindPowerSystem.com reported on Richard Jenkin’s land speed record in his Greenbird wind powered car in which he reached 202 km/hr on sand in the dry Lake Ivanpah in California – USA The Greenbird is made of carbon fibre… Read the rest

How To Build DIY Wind Turbine – Step-by-Step Video Tutorial

In this short 10-minute video tutorial, MyWindPowerSystem.com shows you how easy and simple it is to build your own small wind power turbine in just an afternoon’s work. It gives you detailed instructions to build a windmill by utilizing on a day to day’s use of basic materials and equipment available in any small “DYI orientated”… Read the rest

Build Your Own Wind Generator

Believe it or not, it’s easy. If you can find the time and patience to build it yourself, you are one of many people who are tired of ever-increasing electricity bills. Alternatively, you can buy ready-made systems, but they will set you back financially at least a couple of grand. Here at MWPS World, we search… Read the rest

WINDELA – The independent street lamp, that uses wind power and solar energy

Have you heard of Windela? Windela S.A. is a company based in France which has come up with a great idea and has developed an independent street lamp that runs on 2 combined energy sources, the wind and sun light. While the questions related to renewable energies are omnipresent, WINDELA developed this street lamp product… Read the rest

Alternative Energy Revolution – A little trivial

Britain’s ambition to become a global leader in renewable energy suffered a major setback last night when the world’s biggest investor in wind power said that it was slashing its investment programme.
This shocking new announcement came less than 2 months after UK ministers came across this scary cartoon prompting concern that the government can no… Read the rest

Cheaper power when the wind is blowing – Smart Meters

Summerside City is preparing to buy smart meters to help 5,000 customers of the local utility grid to know when they can achieve savings from a future wind farm which will be erected soon. A 12-megawatt wind farm is in the planning to be completed this fall and electricity produced by the farm will be cheaper… Read the rest

Windmills Sight Seeing in San Gorgonio

Learn about green energy and take a tour among Californian Deserts Turbines There are many local attractions one can exploit in the Coachella Valley. Here are a few examples: • A Hot-Air-Balloon flight over the desert at sunrise
• A Camel Ride through a date farm
• A Chuck Wagon Ride along the San Andreas fault… Read the rest

The Greenbird – A New Wind Powered Car

A totally new and record-breaking wind powered car has emerged. A carbon fibre composite vehicle named The Greenbird is powered by nothing else but wind. The world land speed record for wind powered vehicles has been broken by a British engineer with this new groundbreaking “Greenbird”gimmick. The engineer achieved exactly 126.1 mph which is 202.9 kmh… Read the rest