Danish company Vestas Wind Systems A/S says it has been awarded a 1.1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) deal to supply 278 wind turbines for Norwegian power company Statkraft and its partners for a wind power project in central ...
Energy & Green Tech
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Technology can be a wonderful servant but a terrible master. As we know, its applications are not always beneficial to people or to the environment.
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Feb 9, 2016
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A wind farm that would be the largest in the world and power more than a million homes has been given the go-ahead in Britain.
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Offshore wind farms generate energy from the raw winds out at sea. But the salty air causes them to rust. For such plants to be profitable, they have to re- main in service for at least 25 years – which is impossible without ...
Engineering
Feb 1, 2016
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Right whale calving grounds off the Southeast coast and feeding grounds off New England are being added to federally-designated critical habitat areas for the endangered animals, increasing those areas by thousands of square ...
Ecology
Jan 27, 2016
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As wind energy development blossoms in Canada and around the world, opposition at the community level is challenging the viability of the industry. A new study with research from the University of Waterloo, published in Nature ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 26, 2016
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Seasonal and daily patterns of electricity consumption follow almost identical forms everywhere. Demand is low in the middle of the night when the bulk of humanity is sleeping and it peaks either in the middle of the day ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 14, 2015
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This image is a mosaic based on Sentinel-1A satellite coverage of the Netherlands in three scans during March 2015.
Earth Sciences
Dec 4, 2015
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Building and operating offshore wind farms is an expensive business. To be able to estimate the profitability of the plants, first the wind potential must be determined. Fraunhofer researchers have now created a wind measurement ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 1, 2015
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Using methods developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, wind farms can now be designed to minimize their effects on television broadcasting and mobile communications.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 23, 2015
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