Deflated expectations: It takes more than a gust to harness wind energy
July 6th, 2010 |
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The presence of strong gusts and flat, wide-open spaces would appear tailor-made for the production of electricity from wind energy, yet the reality of harvesting renewable energy is never that straightforward. As Scientific American reported last week, Latin America is beginning to tap into the wind as a source of clean (or at least not [...]
Keep reading »Hawaii picks Maui luxury resort as site to test smart-grid technology
October 12th, 2009 |
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Hawaii has been working for more than a year to map out concrete plans to harness the abundant—though unpredictable—winds that blow across the state’s numerous islands. As the state and its utilities draw up plans for wind farms and other green-energy facilities to help meet the goal of pulling 70 percent of power from clean [...]
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