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Renewable Energy, Meta-Analysis of Net Energy Return for Wind Power Systems, January 2010 Carbon Shift, Thomas Homer-Dixon and Nick Garrison, Penguin Books, 2009 ...
According to the American Wind Energy Association, 2012 was the industry’s strongest year.In total, more than 60,000 megawatts of wind-powered electric capacity were produced. That’s enough to ...
I did not say wind energy is 'Idiot Power.'" This text is selectively excerpted from a chapter written by David Hughes in Carbon Shift (2009), a book I co-edited.
The renewable-energy epiphany that launched Texas wind power came through an unexpected channel: public opinion polls in the mid-1990s. An excerpt from The Great Texas Wind Rush.
In a new book, anthropologist David Hughes chronicles the fight against a wind farm in southern Spain and proposes a new way to build community support. A new book examines the biggest setback for ...
So Mr Hughes was saying only that placing windmills in bad places may mean they don’t generate enough energy to “pay back” the energy it cost to produce them, not that all turbines will fail to do so.
Getting the balance right—between wind, solar, nuclear, and other low-carbon energy sources; between low-carbon and low-cost electricity systems; and between private markets, competition ...
The wind power giant, Siemens Energy, saw its stock crash 37% following a profit warning due to difficulties within its wind turbine division. These types of problems are not isolated to Siemens.
This is the sixth offshore wind farm Siemens will provide to Dong Energy. Siemens recently signed a contract with Dong for 30 3.6-MW turbines for the Gunfleet Sands project off the British coast.
A wind farm at the New York Bight is expected to produce 5.6 to 7 gigawatts–that's enough to power more than 1.9 million homes.