Category Archives: Wind Electricity

How many would it take to power Australia? It depends on how strong the wind is. It also depends on much wind there is close to a population center. A .3 MW turbine is about typical. The world’s largest turbines are manufactured by the Northern German companies Enercon and REpower. The Enercon E-126 delivers up … Continue reading

Is this done with fiber optic cables? Electricity from renewable sources gets onto the grid through metal wires. You can’t transmit AC power through optical fibres, they don’t conduct electricity. Large installations, built and operated by the utility companies themselves, are connected up in the same way as any other power station. Small installations, eg., … Continue reading

Let’s assume for this example that the average wind speed is 12mph. Depends, how many hours does it operate at two kilowatts…. Kilowatt-hours is kilowatts multiplied by time (hours)… It’s questions like this that really makes me worry about our education system. Related Blogs How many walts of electricty does it take to run an … Continue reading

This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/ecotricity Ecotricity won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2007. To find out more visit the link above and check out the Ashden Awards Blog http://ashdenawards.blogspot.com Wood Energy is one of the UK’s leading wood-fuel heating businesses, providing over a third of the country’s total wood heat capacity … Continue reading

if were all supose to be going green,then why do all the new houses not use wind power! that will kick globle warming up the…..neck moslty cost. plus here in texas we’re building new solar collector array power plants. It claims 100% efficiency, 100% self sustaining, 100% clean (water, salt, and sunlight) 100% available all … Continue reading