Wind Power News: News
These news and opinion items are gathered by National Wind Watch to help keep readers informed about developments related to industrial wind energy. They are the products of the organizations or individuals noted.
Calm days, clouds could stymie solar, wind future
Maybe the future of climate friendly energy won’t have as much to do with wind and solar energy as current booms in those technologies suggest.
Clouds and calm days could make the alternative energy stars bit players in a clean power future where round-the-clock dependability is critical.
That was one message from Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) deep thinker, Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie, whose view stirred controversy among energy executives.
“We should undoubtedly increase research and investment in alternative and renewable energy . . .
Plans for more wind turbines
Plans for a seven-turbine wind farm between Sutton Bridge and Tydd St Mary have been submitted to South Holland District Council.
RES, which hopes to build the wind farm, says it is pleased with the support and interest it has had in the area for the scheme during pre-application consultation meetings.
However, at a public meeting hosted by South Holland and the Deepings MP John Hayes and parish councillor Jenny Rowe, all but two of the 30 people attending voted against . . .
Wind energy industry pulling back and shedding jobs
If the wind doesn’t blow, wind turbines can’t make electricity, and if credit markets don’t flow, the entire wind-energy business grinds to a standstill.
In a nutshell, that’s what’s happening to Suzlon Rotor Corp., which makes turbine blades in Pipestone, Minn. The facility is owned by India-based Suzlon Energy Ltd., the world’s fifth-largest wind-turbine manufacturer, with $3.8 billion in revenue last year.
Suzlon on Friday informed the city of Pipestone that as a result of the downturn in the economy, it would . . .
Crisis cuts costs for big wind players
Wind farm costs have fallen significantly for companies big enough to finance their own projects as the economic crisis cripples competitors for turbines, an executive from RWE Innogy said on Wednesday.
A global surge in demand for wind turbines drove up development costs until last year’s credit crunch slashed financing for many projects that had been competing for a limited supply of turbines.
Multi-billion dollar economic stimulus packages announced by the United States and China could revive demand again next year but . . .
New transport solution for 2 MW nacelles
Nooteboom Special Products has invented a system for loading and unloading the extremely heavy generator units of large wind turbines, which avoids the need for a mobile crane. The first three systems have been delivered to the specialised windmill transport company, Frank Norager from Fjerritslev in Denmark.
Each generator – or nacelle as it is more commonly known in the windpower business — makes its way through the production process on a so-called ‘base frame’ which is subsequently coupled to . . .
Nobel laureate: Wind is not the future
While the Obama administration has expressed increasing hopes that wind power will play a key role in America’s future energy system, one of the world’s leading scientists is ruling out the technology.
Jack Steinberger, the 1968 Nobel Prize winner in physics and director of CERN’s particle-physics laboratory, spoke at a conference of Nobel laureates at the 350-year-old Royal Society in London last week.
His conclusion: “Wind is not the future,” according to the London Times.
Steinberger says Europe should cancel its big . . .
Kansas company poised to build turbines in Porter, La Porte counties
A suburban Kansas City, Kan.-based energy company is forming leases with Porter and La Porte County landowners to build turbines and harvest electricity generated from wind power.
Although it may be between four and seven years before the turbines deliver power, officials from TradeWind Energy LLC said the state is poised to be a player in opportunities for wind energy development. The company also has a wind development project in Clinton County.
TradeWind Energy focuses on large-scale turbine projects that sell electricity . . .
Gamesa clients seek delivery delays, cutting 2009 sales outlook
Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA, the biggest Spanish maker of wind turbines, said clients are pushing back delivery dates for orders and indicated it won’t meet its sales volume forecast for this year as a result.
The Zamudio, Spain-based company will see sales of “more than 3,000 megawatts this year,” Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Guillermo Ulacia told reporters in Bilbao yesterday. This compares with a forecast of 3,300 to 3,600 megawatts the company gave on May 14.
Declining orders for wind turbines . . .
Wind farm setbacks won't be changed; Woodford panel votes against proposal to increase towers' setbacks
EUREKA — Residents who spent weeks researching and discussing wind farm issues were dealt a blow Thursday when the Woodford County Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously against larger setbacks of wind turbines.
In denying the motion, the five-member board voted against amending the wind farm ordinance so that towers would be set at least 1,800 feet back from any adjoining structure, and at least 1.1 times the tower height from a dwelling structure.
The motion by the Conservation, Planning and Zoning . . .
Interrumpir el sueño en su fase profunda puede provocar la pérdida de memoria
[Interrupting deep-phase dreaming can cause memory loss; scroll down from English translation]
La memoria dependiente del hipocampo se ve afectada por la entrada en la fase de sueño superficial.
* El motivo: se corta el proceso de almacenar los datos.
* Son los resultados de una investigación hecha a dos grupos de personas, a uno se le interrumpió el sueño en su fase profunda, al otro no.
* La parte del cerebro . . .
