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Revolver portable wind turbine aims to green your next camping trip
Producing electricity while camping is one major problem for camping enthusiasts. While there is no dearth of conventional systems that can be used to provide power in the wild, eco conscious campers don’t usually want to hurt the environment while p
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What's Next: Low cost wind turbines for the developing world
As we know itIn the present era, the renewable energy realm has a share of about 19 percent in worldwide electricity generation. Now, for the uninitiated, this may seem to be a paltry figure, but if we go by statistical expansion, the ongoing phase is cer
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Best of 2011: Advances in wind power technology
When we talk about renewable energy sources, wind power is considered the most effective resource. There have been so many technological advances in the utilization of wind power resulting in a clean, renewable, cost-effective means of generating electric
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Voleo: The perfect wind turbine for domestic use
Wind energy, when harnessed properly, can be used to accomplish a variety of daily tasks. Accordingly, the engineers at the Ecole Centrale de Lille for Osue Studio have created the Voleo Wind Turbine. Voleo has an interesting and high efficiency design th
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Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: An aero vehicle propelled by wind power
The basic concept of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is based upon the power of sun and wind to propel. The shape of the current aircraft resembles the shape of a bird. The UAV is based on the mechanism like birds, which use wind power to fly. As birds util
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What’s Next: Floating wind turbines
As we know it Our dependence on fossil fuels and other non-renewable forms of energy has reached a saturation point. With the earth no longer capable of churning out the required amounts of conventional fuel forms to meet our growing energy demands, r
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Trans Wind Energy Generation: A concept to harness wind energy for efficient power generation
The myriad benefits of the efficient use of wind energy for power generation have been talked about for long. The idea is being implemented in various projects around the world but a mainstream use of the technology, something that allows for the increase
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Future Perfect: Noise-free and highly efficient wind turbines
What's happening right now A father and daughter team, Alfred Mathieu and Sharolyn Vettese, has designed a special high-efficiency, noise-free and compact wind turbine known as the Windancer for a Canadian company called Wind Simplicity. The design h
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Five eco friendly vehicles that are powered by wind energy
The green energy is really hard to ignore in terms of the energy it produces and its Eco-friendly nature. This green energy has led to many stunning inventions and has also resulted into various methods of harnessing the clean and green energy. This green
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What's next : Micro wind turbines
As we know itWind energy and solar photovoltaics are the currently proven clean energy sources. Though contributing only a small 6 per cent of global energy production and with problems of intermittent energy generation, these technologies continue to adv
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