Tag: WIND POWER

Cost efficiency has long stood in the way of alternative energy sources becoming a major competitor for coal power, but JoeBen Bevirt thinks he has a solution that could make wind stand up to coal. His company Joby Energy has designed and built wind turbines that hover in the air, rather than being mounted on the top of large towers. His hope is that the company will be able to launch these ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. Can you ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It has only taken 12 years, but 'StarCraft II' seems finally set to arrive in the video game marketplace. Activision announced that the follow-up to perhaps the "quintessential realtime strategy (RTS) title of all time" will touch down July 27th. According to Daily Tech, another enormously popular title is now available, as MekTek ...

From the "making lemonade out of lemons" category of forward thinking comes the winner of Metropolis Magazine's 2009 "Next Generation" contest. The idea was for designers come to the table with ways to fix our addiction to energy, and the winner is Wind-it. Wind-it suggests installing wind turbines in, on, and around electrical towers, as well as the electrical poles that line our streets here ...

Wind farms have become big business on the island of Sicily, and, according to FOX News, mafia goodfellas have begun tapping into the earth's resources for monetary gain. Both the Italian government and the European Union subsidize the farms and offer health benefits to mill farm operators, unintentionally providing mafiosi with incentive to get in on the Wind Boom. After discovering that ...

We've seen personal sized eco-friendly gadget chargers before, but few have been as well designed or affordable as the new line of wind and solar chargers that MINIWIZ unveiled last week at CES. The first is the HYmini, a hand-held -- but not quite pocketable -- power generator activated by the wind. It has an internal battery that can hold a charge for powering devices later or it can be be ...

Still addicted to oil like the rest of the world? You might reconsider wind power rehab now that a startup called ExRo has developed turbines that it says are consistently 30-percent -- and in some situations as much as 100% -- more efficient than the standard kind. The traditionally-used mechanical transmissions have been replaced with an inexpensive electric alternative that can adapt to changes ...

Yachts are usually pretty environmentally unsound, so the DSe Hybrid just debuted by Island Pilot at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show should be a real breath of fresh air (literally) if green is your thing. And apparently it's really about as eco-friendly as it gets -- using a combination of diesel, solar and electric power (when it goes into commercial production it will also boast ...

In case you haven't noticed, energy sources and being "greener" are hot topics for everyone from presidential candidates to Apple. And let's not get into gas prices and the companies that are currently swimming in our monies. The simple fact is, we need cheaper and more efficient energy sources that are better for our environment -- stat. And we don't just mean for our cars and homes. Think about ...

Oh sure, Rock Port, Missouri managed to snag the title of being "100% wind powered," but Texas' new plan will make the Show Me state's gusty initiatives look awfully weak. Officials at the Public Utility Commission recently okayed a plan to "build billions of dollars worth of new transmission lines to bring pollution-free energy from West Texas to urban areas." The ginormous Lone Star state is ...

It looks like wind power is about to get a bit more stylish with the outspoken Philippe Starck now wading into things with his "Democratic Ecology" personal wind turbine. The turbine first made its debut at the recent Greenenergy Design show in Milan and, according to Inhabitat, it's now on track for an actual release in September of this year, thanks to a little assistance from Pramac. If all ...

Unlike Rock Port, Missouri, the entire state of Delaware won't be 100-percent wind-powered after Bluewater Wind constructs a $1.6 billion wind park just off its shore, but the state will be able to "light about 50,000 homes a year" for the duration of the 25-year contract. Said agreement was just nailed down between the aforesaid firm and Delmarva Power, and it hopes to start powering homes via ...