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Efficient wind turbine from Southwest Windpower

Vladan — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:31:35 +0000

New efficient Wind Turbine from Southwest Windpower.

In the consumer market, the importance of efficiency is crucial. Most efficient devices usually gets more success than others. This new wind turbine can start to make “big noise” in a press when it’ll start selling. As for now the product has been announced on Windenergy.com [...]

Some very nice wind turbines for homeowners

Vladan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:36:46 +0000

New wind turbines designed by Philippe Starck

French designer Philippe Starck, creator of chic hotels, high-tech lamps and modern-style furniture, has turned his attention to energy with the design of two sleek micro wind-power turbines aimed at domestic use.

The devices because of the vertical axis design, they’re almost noiseless. That’s an advantage. I [...]

How to cut your electricity bill with solar power generator

administrator — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:01:19 +0000

There is a lot of ECO gadgets around these days. One of them is this little solar power generator.

This device generates both: solar and wind energy, as it uses a collection of six photovoltaic panels, crafted as a vertical turbine. While the panels generate solar power, the moving blades generate wind energy.

One never [...]

Wind turbines can be quite compact

administrator — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:21:00 +0000

Wind turbines designed to be installed on rooftops are generating a lot interest lately. These compact turbines can be located on top of buildings, or attached to other parts of large structures like bridges. In turns out, though, that installing wind turbine in a city environment is a bit of an art.

The [...]

Completelly silent, elegant design – Energy Ball

administrator — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:14:00 +0000

This wind turbine is silent and high efficient. It’s callet Energy Ball.

The Energy Ball uses the Venturi effect, a measurement of pressure created by forcing incompressible liquid through a restricted section of pipe. The Energy Ball channels air through six blades, accelerating the speed of the air as it blows around [...]

Vertical axis wind turbine

administrator — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:58:46 +0000

The normal propeller wind turbines are sometimes quite dangerous to birds because of the huge sweep area of the blades and when there is wind, the propellers move fast which birds sometimes cannot see.

Vertical axis wind turbine, like this one in the video, are cool. This vertical wind turbine from mariah power has 1.2Kw [...]

Energy Innovation has came up with new product using fresnel lens

administrator — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:06:20 +0000

I came to this article about the Sunflower’s Fresnel lens . Those lens concentrates sunlight more than 1,000 times, enabling cheaper electricity than traditional photovoltaics. The system is self-powered.

Technical specifications:

200-watt system features trackers that shift with the sun’s location, as well as a controller and communications system. The low-slung Sunflower [...]

Wind Power is to be increased in Germany to 30% by 2020

administrator — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:36:36 +0000

The German minister for the environment Sigmar Gabriel now no longer plans to increase the share of bio energy in the fuel market to 17% by 2020 as originally planned but only to 12%. In return, the share of wind energy in the electricity supply is to be increased from the up to present planned [...]

Solar and Wind Powered Streetlights…at the Panasonic Center

Vladan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:41:28 +0000

It’s amazing. Combining two renewable energies to produce electricity, those street lamps are producing electricity by charging batteries using solar cells and wind turbine…

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Plans of Renewable energies in Great Britain

Vladan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:56:55 +0000

In Great Britain, The targets are several: a 20% jump in energy efficiency, 10% of vehicle traffic powered by biofuels, and 15% of energy derived from renewable sources.

Britain only derives 2% of its energy from renewables rithg now, and so must build six and a half times what it has now – all within [...]