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The turbines off the Aberdeenshire coast reached 57% of potential output over the past year. 
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Learn more about how wind energy is working for America at www.americanwindaction.org/
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A nonprofit group backed by the wind industry is launching a seven-figure advertising blitz in D.C., touting the renewable energy's American bona fides, seeking to capitalize on President Trump's driving mantra of America First. The advertisements will run on cable, radio and digital outlets across D.C., with the president, his new administration and Congress as the target audience. The ads will run on Fox and Friends, which Trump watches regularly, along with other influential cable shows.
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The world is ready to pay for more renewable energy, and Wyoming has lots of wind. Who owns it? Wyoming decided it did.
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Somehow, I don't think anyone ever asked oil: "tell us how much we can tax you before we drive you out of business."
Can you say double standard for renewables vs. fossil fuels.
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The DNV GL-led WIN WIN Joint Industry Project (JIP), which melds offshore wind with offshore oil and gas | Posted by Eric
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Hmmm...I'm not exactly sure how to read this one. It is great that we are seeing here and example of how alternative energy sources can reduce our consumption of fossil fuels. But to do so to make oil and gas extraction more efficient seems a bit counter-intuitive to say the least.
One upside could be if this work helps further push down the cost of wind turbines, but somehow that doesn't seem to the be the primary outcome. The primary outcome seems to be more carbon in our atmosphere and ocean.
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Efforts to increase wind power mean that turbine blades are getting bigger and bigger. But a new design in the works takes the idea to levels most people can barely imagine: Blades up to 656.2 feet long — more than two football fields. Today's longest blades are 262.5 feet. The blades at Imperial...
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Massive blades.
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Denmark supplies three out of four of the world's offshore wind turbines, and it's on track to be free of fossil fuels by 2050.
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In 1860, then-US president Abraham Lincoln described the wind as “an untamed and unharnessed force”. He continued, “Quite possibly one of the greatest discoveries hereafter to be made will be the taming, and harnessing of it.”
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Online interactive map reveals the optimal wind, solar and water energy resources in each state.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
A potential path to sustainable electricity generation.
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The state has made major progress in its shift from oil to renewables but there’s still a lot to be done, according to a new report analyzing its ongoing transition.
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Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of the green energy story. He found a start-u
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Aiming to keep Wyoming electric utilities dependent on coal, the legislature proposes a bill preventing them from using the state's abundant wind power to in-state customers.
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This is just insane. First Pruitt's comments about California's permission to manage it's own airspeed and now this.
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Dong Energy has installed the first of the world's largest wind turbines, which are taller and wider than the London Eye |
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The wind farm with the largest yet produced blades is about to kick on in the UK!
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The first offshore wind farm is being built off New England this month. The fledgling US industry is borrowing expertise from Europe, where offshore wind has a 25-year head start.
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Greetings from Washington, D.C. where the big news of the week is a truly impressive jobs report—no, not the Department of Labor survey for March 2016 which showed an impressive 215,000 job-gain in
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SheerWind's Invelox is said to increase wind energy output by 600 percent and does not rely on high speed wind to operate.
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A new report points to a number of encouraging signs in the global wind industry.
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A massive wind farm is getting closer to being built in Carbon County, Wyoming.
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![Wind Turbines Generate “Upside-Down” Lightning [Video] | Sustainability Science | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/0lKWJTkhOOBCKi3oBf7TXTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Lightning strikes have been known to incapacitate wind turbines by destroying their blades. But while most tall structures are prone to lightning strikes, wind turbines seem to be especially susceptible.
PIRatE Lab's insight:
Super cool slow mo video of lightning running up from the metal superstructures.
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