Britain missed out on leadership in the wind-power industry, scooped by Germany and Denmark.
He's already shamelessly playing up his support for wind-power subsidies in the Hawkeye State.
China doubled its wind-power capacity that year, then doubled it again the next year, and the year after.
Rival wind-power fund PowerShares Global Wind Energy Portfolio focuses more on wind-farm operators.
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Yin, who holds a PhD in atmospheric science, got laid off from a wind-power company in Boulder, Colorado in September 2009.
Previously I wrote about the British focus on wind-power to meet its renewable energy targets for the European Union, by 2020.
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Blue H, a wind-power company based in Britain, has developed a floating wind turbine based on designs first used by oil-drilling platforms.
Explosive growth of more than 40% this year--3, 400 megawatts of new generation is expected--could make the U.S. the world's largest wind-power market, a new report shows.
While that project is further along than other proposals, several other offshore wind-power projects have been proposed for New York, New Jersey, Florida, California and Delaware.
Jeff Yin, a programmer who got laid off from his wind-power employer in September 2009, started picking words from home for Trada a few months later.
The wind-power lobby has won a potentially game-changing victory in its full-court press to unlock the vast offshore wind resource off the coast of North Carolina.
Nearly two dozen offshore wind-power projects representing more than 2, 000 MW of capacity are in the planning and permitting stages, mostly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.
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It was estimated in 2008 that to meet the U.K. wind-power goal by 2020 would require building one new turbine every day for the next twelve years.
Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
The actualization of an overall wind-power strategy is not going smoothly, however, and the number of new wind farms coming on-stream has fallen by 30%, in part as a consequence of the recession.
The engineering requirement overall for CST, wind-power, new power distribution, electric transportation etc. is phenomenal and unprecedented, and while I marvel at the audacity of the proposal, I doubt very much that it can be done in time, if at all.
Dr. Vladimir Kliatzkin, a scientist with more than 40 years of experience in energy production and accumulation systems for aviation, internal combustion engines and hybrid systems, originally developed the innovative wind-power technology and is currently commercializing various applications incorporating the technology through WinFlex.
Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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In November, WinFlex, a wind-power company based in Kiryat Yam, Israel, received one of the most coveted prizes in the GE Ecomagination Challenge for developing a wind-turbine system that uses a light, flexible cloth sheets made out of composite materials as the rotor system for a wind turbine.
Not everyone is convinced that wind-power is the most reliant route to clean, renewable carbon-free energy, and it is concerning that Britain is relying on a power source that must be backed up by more constant technologies such as nuclear, coal, or gas, because the wind blows inconsistently, as is its nature.
While a single wind-turbine does not affect the global atmosphere, the installation of a large number of such devices will interfere with the atmospheric circulation and diminish the extraction efficiency on the large scale, since any extraction of momentum will act in competition with natural wind-power energy dissipation by turbulence in the boundary layer.
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Around one ton of REE based permanent magnets is needed to provide each MW of wind-turbine power.
This technique dramatically extends the potential of wind-up power, and brings more power-hungry devices, such as the landmine detector, within its scope.
Energy-efficiency and fuel-switching, for example, accounted for 40% of the projects started last year, while biomass, wind- and hydro-power made up another 24%.
WEAs are areas being considered by state-federal government offshore wind task forces and large public-private wind power consortiums like the Atlantic Offshore Wind Energy Consortium.
This would spur both industrial development in places like the Great Plains--rich in everything from fossil fuels to wind power--while keeping energy prices down for U.S. consumers and firms.
Ambitious plans for offshore renewable energy projects are crowding the waters--floating wind farms, tidal-power turbines and wave-energy barges--all expected in the next decade.
It was designed with help from the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) to potentially deploy immediate power to military units through 100% wind-and-solar power.
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Despite this rule of thumb, there is a burgeoning movement to bring small-wind power to cities as well.
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