MetaFilter posts tagged with energy and wind

A PATH TO SUSTAINABLE ENERGY BY 2030

kliuless — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:41:37 -0800

Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100 percent of the world's energy, eliminating all fossil fuels. HERE'S HOW (via) BONUS -Earthships - "what the world needs now is 1 billion of these immediately" (previously) -A safe operating space for humanity -Reasons to be optimistic? -Everything is OK

Yesterday's Energy of Tomorrow...and more

Miko — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:05:33 -0800

Peak Oil, 1925. In 2000, 20% of new buildings will be solar equipped. By the late 1990s, 90% of the world's energy will be nuclear-generated. These and other erroneous projections are being collected as part of the Forecast Project on the website Inventing Green: The Lost History of Alternative Energy in America.

Ten new wind turbine designs

Slithy_Tove — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:25:38 -0800

Ten new wind turbine designs. Curious, grotesque, sculptural, beautiful, utilitarian.

Offshore windfarms attract killer whales

Artw — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:14:59 -0800

Chris Goodall, author of Ten Technologies to Save the Planet, talks about the ten big green energy myths.

Pickens Plan

Laugh_track — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:59:02 -0800

Pickens Plan -- oilman T. Boone Pickens has a plan to reduce America's oil dependency problem: exploit the country's massive windpower potential for domestic energy, replacing natural gas, and then use natural gas to power cars instead of foreign oil. Some problems with the plan.

"Ecology is not just an urgency of the economy and protection of our world but also creativity and elegance"

Artw — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:22:45 -0800

A Philippe Starck designed Wind Turbine?

"This collection outlines the promises and pitfalls of new energy technologies..."

sergeant sandwich — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:13:02 -0800

Navarre now generates more than 50% of its energy needs by wind power: a profile of the small autonomous region in northern Spain that is leading the way in renewable energy. This is one of many free access articles in this special supplement on energy issues to the journal Nature.

Tapping the Sky

fenriq — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 08:19:48 -0800

45,000 pounds + four 130 foot rotors + up to 200 mph Jet Stream winds = Energy Problem Solved
Like the monster mother of all kites, a company called Sky Windpower (which sports an excellent website about high altitude wind power) has been founded by an Australian engineer with three others to attempt to harness the near limitless windpower of the jet stream with a machine they call an FEG (Flying Electric Generator).
They're currently seeking $4 million to build a 200 kilowatt prototype but still need to get FAA clearance to fly it. The production models would generate 20 megawatts each and would be flown in farms of up to 600 turbines to generate enough power to light up two cities the size of Chicago. Power and control of the huge machines would be handled by a three inch thick tether connected to a winch on a ground station.
Man, I love Popular Science!

zeoslap — Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:57:25 -0800

WTC Replacement... This would be sweet, imagine a 2000ft version of this puppy