turbines

World’s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs)

Following the apparent success of SeaGen, a small deployment of tidal turbines of the coast of Northern Ireland, Scottish Power is seeking approval for plans to build two farms of 20 100-foot, err, watermills promising a steady power supply for up to 40,000 homes. As with the previous example of tidal power generation, the most obvious…

Tech News John Herrman Sep 30

Wind Turbines Murdering Bats By Popping Their Lungs

On the list of ways to go, having your lungs explode is definitely on the gnarlier side. Too bad for bats in treehugging locales, though, because that’s what’s happening to them, due to a pretty serious error with their awesome echolcation systems crossing with the seemingly benign forces of Bernoulli’s principle put into motion by…

Tech News John Mahoney Aug 25

Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations

It’s one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It’s something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionize personal power in developing nations, especially if you’re in college. Max Robinson has done just…

Tech News Matt Hickey Aug 20

Rock Port, Missouri, is First US City to Generate All Its Electricity From Wind Turbines

(Photo by Steve Morse) Not to be outdone by those crazy Danish bastards out on the isle of Samso, Science Daily reports an equally crazy group of Missourian bastards in Rock Port now generate all their electricity using wind turbines. Rock Port went completely wind-powered last week, making use of the 75 wind turbines spread…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 25

Lunatics Base-Jumping Off Giant Wind Turbines Have More Guts Than We Do

The idea of diving out of an airplane with essentially just a thin envelope of fabric protecting me from splattering my organs all over concrete like postmodern art makes me want to pee myself. Yet somehow jumping off a giant, bird-blending propeller blade, almost thirty stories up, makes me want to poop myself too. And…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jul 24

Danish Isle Runs Completely on Renewable Energy, Is Greenest Guinea Pig Ever

In this week’s New Yorker, Elizabeth Kolbert wrote about the Danish isle of Samsø, which over the past 10 years, has gone from exclusively using fossil fuel energy sources, to living exclusively off renewable energy. Using a combination of onshore and offshore turbines, private mini-turbines, solar panels, straw-burning furnaces and biofuels, the 4,300-resident island has…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jul 4

Modular Turbines Let Buildings Generate Own Power, Liquefy Own Birds

Aerovironment has developed a range of modular wind turbines designed to clamp on to existing architecture, called “Architectural Wind.” The units, which can be easily teamed together, sit around the edge of a structure’s roof and use specially designed low-speed turbines to take advantage of the breeze that naturally travels up tall buildings’ walls. The…

Tech News John Herrman Jun 11

UR-202 Wristwatch Features Winding System Regulated By Compressed Air

The UR-103 watches from Urwerk were interesting, but their new 202 Hammerhead Automatic goes a few steps further with a unique winding system regulated by compressed air. Instead of a traditional rotating vane, the 202 uses miniature twin turbines to control the rate of automatic winding. Plus, the level of air compression generated by the…

Gadgets Sean Fallon Apr 14

Turbine Ad Showcases a Bored, Possibly Brain Damaged Troublemaker

This ad for Epuron Wind Power won the prize for best film advertising at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes this past summer, and you can see why: it’s downright wonderful. While we’ve recently seen the destructive power of the wind as it wreaks havoc on one poor turbine, it’s nice to see the wind…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 27

World’s Largest Wind Turbine Powers 5,000 Homes, is Very Big

This is the Enercon E-126, the world’s largest wind turbine that’s currently being installed in Germany. This monster generates over 7 Megawatts of juice, which is enough to power about 5,000 four-person households in Europe. It’s got an insane 413830-foot wingspan, and it’s specially designed to kill as few birds as possible, which was a…

Gadgets Adam Frucci Feb 5

Overhead Highway Turbine Creates Energy, Kills Birds

These crazy turbines, designed by a University of Arizona student, get juice from the wind created by passing cars and trucks. As vehicles fly by, the breeze they create is harnessed by the overhead turbines to power what we can only assume would be more rest stop Roy Rogers and McDonalds. Able to generate an…

Gadgets Adam Frucci May 1

World’s First Tidal Turbine Farms to Power 40,000 Scottish Homes (or Pubs)

Wind Turbines Murdering Bats By Popping Their Lungs

Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations

Rock Port, Missouri, is First US City to Generate All Its Electricity From Wind Turbines

Lunatics Base-Jumping Off Giant Wind Turbines Have More Guts Than We Do

Danish Isle Runs Completely on Renewable Energy, Is Greenest Guinea Pig Ever

Modular Turbines Let Buildings Generate Own Power, Liquefy Own Birds

UR-202 Wristwatch Features Winding System Regulated By Compressed Air

Turbine Ad Showcases a Bored, Possibly Brain Damaged Troublemaker

World’s Largest Wind Turbine Powers 5,000 Homes, is Very Big

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