Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.
More federal help for Big Wind may now be on the way through a regulatory end-run around Congress and consumer interests.
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So Dagher has used his Yankee ingenuity and come up with a truly innovative solution to erecting really big wind turbines in deep waters.
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Offshore wind velocities on an average are 30 percent higher and as such it makes sense to install big wind turbines(about 5 MW and above) to harness large power.
Not, at least, if those big turbines wind up cluttering their panoramic views off Nantucket Sound.
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However, big gusts of wind can transmit too much energy into the critical components (gearbox and generator), essentially destroying them.
Google, which has made big investments in wind, solar and electric car technologies, has never been shy about using its brand to promote stronger clean tech policies.
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One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
The state of Wyoming, which is actually a very big producer of wind power, is now actually considering taxing -- in other words, taking away what you guys are providing with your tax break.
Backed by Dow Chemical, they hope to use this technology to challenge the big and established wind energy giants (Siemens, Vestas, Enercon, Gamesa, GE, and a small number of other highly capitalized players) in the offshore frontier.
China has a huge thirst for energy that it will slake from as many wells as it can, with planned big increases in wind power and in gas as well as the nuclear build-out and ever more coal-fired plants.
But if a big gust of wind pushes the ship too far to the left, the solution is not to figure out a way to generate an equally-sized gust of wind to push the ship back in the other direction.
Deposits would be guaranteed on a pan-European basis and there would be a fund to wind down big banks.
Since its creation in 1992, the PTC has expired on three occasions, each a big setback for the wind business.
Looking at the big picture, wind and solar power are now close to cost competitiveness with fossil fuels.
How big would the solar, wind and nuclear facilities need to be to supply this halved consumption?
Once that playoff sample size gets big enough, many players wind up performing at their expected, regular season level.
But as soon as people in the market get wind that a big trade is under way, they adjust their prices to take advantage of it.
Holder told reporters, "If this bill becomes law, people like John Gotti, who beat the rap at his first trials, and John Hinckley and John DeLorean, who were also acquitted, could wind up with big taxpayer checks".
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E. had such a big oil and gas (and wind and pipelines) company in the palm of its hand?
So those three phases of the flight wind up in one big number.
Still, it will be more than a little ironic if Altocor does wind up being a big drug for Andrx.
It might not look full of promise but a lot of hope is hanging on a big grey box at a Cornwall wind farm.
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America's Cup boats traditionally have been monohulled with a keel a big underwater fin that counterbalances against the wind.
Plans for a wind turbine "taller than Big Ben" near a Buckinghamshire village have been rejected by the council.
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