Using Satellites to Identify Offshore Locations for Wind Farms

July 15, 2008 on 12:01 pm | In Wind Power | No Comments

From the Article here:

 A Publication in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters by a team of scientists from NASA’s JPL uses satellite data to measure the surface stresses over the oceans. Recent technological advances have made floating wind farms possible, but the key is putting them in the right locations.

I think this is really good use of technology but is it really feasable to deploy wind-farms in the ocean?

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Artificial tornado plan to generate electricity

June 21, 2008 on 9:07 am | In Wind Power | No Comments

From the article here: Most of us know that tornadoes are unpredictable, uncontrollable, and dangerous. But a Canadian engineer thinks they could be the future of electricity generation. He wants to make electricity from artificial tornadoes.

So what do you think?  Could this work?

 

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20% of US Demand from Wind Power

June 9, 2008 on 9:00 pm | In Wind Power | No Comments

This sobering report by the Department of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office suggests that for the cost of 4 Months in Iraq 20% of the energy needs of our counrty. Direct bennefits sighted:

  • Support of roughly 500,000 jobs in the U.S., with an average of more than 150,000 workers directly employed by the wind industry.
  • Increase in annual revenues to local communities to more than $1.5 billion by 2030.
  • Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030.
  • Reduction of natural gas use by 11%.
  • Reduction of water consumption associated with electricity generation by 4 trillion gallons by 2030.
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