Via Rand E Oertle on Helium.com:

"A startling statistic was reported by Rockefeller University's Jesse Ausubel , who calculated that "To power a toaster [by wind power], you need about 100 square metres of windy land. And to power the city of New York," he added, "you'd need a wind farm the size of Connecticut."

The reason for the immense amount of ( Read more... )

Excerpted from AOL news:

"The 100-turbine Thanet wind farm off the coast of Kent will produce enough electricity to supply the equivalent of more than 200,000 homes a year, and brings the UK's total power from onshore and offshore wind to more than 5GW - enough to power all the homes in Scotland.

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Currently the UK sources just 3% of all its energy ( Read more... )

Wind Power.... So what happens when the wind doesn't blow ?

I recently read Alex Bramwell on www.Helium.com say what they've done for that problem in the Canary Islands. He wrote this as a rebuttal of the article I re-posted earlier (from Helium.com) which I titled Nuclear vs. Wind:

"Wind power has a couple of fundamental flaws that must be overcome ( Read more... )

Excerpts from an article in www.helium.com:

"... the next best alternative to fossil fuels is nuclear power. It doesn't produce Carbon Dioxide, it is more efficient as you can obtain huge amounts of energy from relatively tiny amounts of fuel, it is reliable and very little waste is made. It seems that as an alternative to fossil fuels, nuclear ( Read more... )

Also seen on a post by Energy Broker UK News:

"Wind power generates almost 10% of the UK's power

September 10th, 8:05

Earlier this week the amount of UK energy generated from wind power came closing to 10% of the total output.

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From The Telegraph:

Chris Huhne worried on wind investment

Chris Huhne is concerned about the funding of Britain's wind farms

By Rowena Mason
Last Updated: 10:48PM BST 15/09/2010

Energy secretary Chris Huhne has admitted he is concerned about the financing of major wind farms, as the UK aims to get a third of its energy from renewables.

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Some info from a newsletter I got:

Congratulations on being offered a place on the MSc Carbon Management from September 2010 at the Dumfries Campus of the University of Glasgow. Some news for you which is specific to the MSc:

- On consultation with current and past students, teaching staff, University of Glasgow staff, and more importantly, employers ( Read more... )

From the NY Times:

Wind Farm Off Cape Cod Gets Approval

BOSTON - After nine years of regulatory review, the federal government gave the green light on Wednesday to the nation’s first offshore wind farm, a fiercely contested project off the coast of Cape Cod.

Opponents said they would continue to fight construction of the farm, known as Cape Wind, ( Read more... )

Well, I'm going to try thinking a lot more about renewable energy and climate change and all that because of this degree programme I'll be starting in the Fall.

With that in mind, I wanted to get some information down in my journal about Robin Rigg, which is an off-shore windfarm near here. Just to start a collection of useful info, perhaps, we' ( Read more... )

The wind turbines on a hill on the horizon remind me of Calvary... As the halleluah chorus starts up on my phone music player waiting for the train.