adminBuilding and operating offshore wind farms is an expensive business. To be able to estimate the profitability of the plants, first the wind potential must be determined. Researchers have now created a wind measurement buoy with sophisticated, precise measurement technology that supplies the necessary data.
adminPerovskite solar cells are cheaper to make than traditional silicon cells and their electricity conversion efficiency is improving rapidly. To be commercially viable, perovskite cells need to scale up from lab size. Researchers report a method for making perovskite cells larger while maintaining efficiency.
Katie HerzogIn the immortal words of Charlie Brown: Good grief. Two of America’s biggest egos came together Tuesday when former vice presidential hopeful and current reality TV star Sarah Palin endorsed former reality TV star and current presidential hopeful Donald Trump at a campaign stop in Iowa. “Are you ready to make America great again?” Palin shouted to the rabidly white audience, sucking whatever little meaning was left from the word “great.” “Are you ready to stump for Trump?” she continued. “I’m here to support the next president of the United States: Donald Trump.” Hopefully Palin’s political predictions are as on point as her knowledge of geography, but one must wonder if this is only the beginning of…
adminTurkey said it will commission 101 new hydroelectric plants and dams worth US$3.44 billion in January, according to information published by Anadolu Agency, Turkey’s state-run news agency.
New findings have overturned a scientific dogma that stood for decades, by showing that potassium can work with graphite in a potassium-ion battery — a discovery that could pose a challenge and more sustainable, less costly alternative to the widely used lithium-ion battery.
Luke HagedornOn May 28, 2015, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback signed legislation that will have a significant impact on the future of wind generation in the state. The history of the political struggle underlying this legislation is a topic worthy of its own post, but suffice it to say that SB 91 represents a compromise between the wind industry and a faction of legislators that have attempted to reduce the state’s support of wind energy over the course of the last several legislative sessions. On a political level, this deal largely revolved around the future of Kansas’ 20{f24b02adee2102ff0c5f5079c50862fc8ba5fa53f8615b567037555463da2377} by 2020 Renewable Portfolio Standard, which has been subjected to a number of attacks over the last few legislative sessions. All of these previous efforts failed, but the political pressure to reduce or repeal the…
Europe’s wind industry has sharply criticised the Spanish government over last week’s 700MW renewables auction – which included 500MW of wind – as being too small to satisfy demand, and warned it leaves the country at risk of missing its 2020 EU targets.
