A community portal about Wind turbines with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly...
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A community portal about Wind turbines with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: A wind turbine is a machine for converting the kinetic energy in wind into mechanical energy. If the mechanical energy is used directly by machinery, such as a pump or grinding stones, the machine is usually called a windmill. If the mechanical energy is then converted to electricity, the machine is called a wind generator.
The most talked about green technologies today are ethanol (if you consider that green), solar panels, and wind turbines, but what about the other lesser known green technologies that have the capability of transforming the way we live? Here is a list of the top 10 least talked about green technologies.
10. Inflatable Solar Collectors
The inflatable solar collectors contain inflated mirror concentrators which gather sunlight and focus it onto photovoltaic cells. They can withstand 100mph... Read Full Story
July 21, 2008 | By Gregory S. Davis From Investopedia.Com Architectural design firm Dynamic Architecture is determined to build one of the most innovative skyscrapers ever conceived. The vision entails an 80-story skyscraper with individual apartments on each floor that can rotate 360 degrees on an axis offering a full panoramic view of the buildings surroundings in Dubai. The design incorporates horizontally mounted wind turbines between each floor. The 79 turbines are expected to... Read Full Story
By Alan Caruba You may have seen the television commercials with T. Boone Pickens, a multi-millionaire who made his money in oil and is now trying to double up selling wind. That is wind as in wind power—as in hundreds and hundreds of wind turbines to generate electricity. That’s why I find it more than strange that Picken’s television and print ads all start off talking about oil. In the current edition of Business Week magazine he has a full-page ad with a headline that says “It’s time to... Read Full Story
Flodesign’s jet engine shaped wind turbine is designed to be an amazingly 3 to 4 times more efficient than standard wind turbines. Present day wind turbines only capture 50% of the air flow, cannot stand high winds, have high building standards, require many trucks to deliver parts for 1 turbine and have to be built tall and away from habitable areas. Due to their large size, the large turbines force air around it instead of through it and during high winds they are usually turned off or... Read Full Story
Broadstar's AeroCam system is the first to shatter the $1/watt cost barrier. It can even be used to fill in space between excising big prop wind turbines. Full Story (Via Inhabitat) Broadstar Site & Videos Read Full Story
