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Future Pylon design
RIBA, The DECC and National Grid have a competition to design the Pylon of the future.Click to view slideshow. Actually only one seems to be a pylon and the rest are what the grid would correctly term...
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Concrete Turbine Base
This is a turbine base for a 100m turbine, a relative minnow in modern parlance. Already a large quantity of concrete has been poured and now the steel work is in place for the cap to be added. This...
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Osmotic Power has the potential for 1600-1700TWh of Electricity Production
Osmotic Power supply I have often been critical of the single minded approach to UK Renewable resources in Wind Energy and have oft questioned the practical application of wave and tide. Essentially...
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A Truly Scottish Invention
The Stirling Engine was invented by the Rev. Robert Stirling in 1816. Best descibed as an external combustion engine, it uses a heat source which could be solar, geothermal or biomass to power it....
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Why are all that question “the Consensus” labeled Deniers or Sceptics?
Science to me has been the ongoing search for truth. There is no such thing in Science as consensus. If there was, the world would still be flat! Why then has modern science from the American Physical...
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Allt Duine – Planning Meeting
ALLT DUINE: Objection Achieved! The application for the Allt Duine Wind Farm by RWE-Npower was rejected by Highland Council today 17.01.12 by a vote of 9 for the proposal to reject against three to...
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Voltage Optimisation
We are always critical of wind farms due to their inherant lack of efficiency but in the meantime promote sustainability as the mantra which we should follow. Efficient insulation, low energy...
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An interesting calculation
John Curtis kindly got his abacus out and did a bit of research. His figures are illuminating and make interesting reading. Thanks John for letting me pass this on. “I have been considering effects of...
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Offshore wind turbines are falling over!
And I thought only sheep got Scour! A question mark hangs over the long-term stability of Europe’s shallow-water turbines, after research linked to the Horns Rev 1 wind farm found that high-powered...
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Listen to this
Download: wind-turbine-noise.mp3 Click on the above to hear the truly disturbing noise of what a wind turbine can sound like.
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