Posts Tagged ‘wind’

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WalMart buying wind power

It will provide Wal-Mart with 226 million KWh of power annually, and will offset 139,000 metric tons of carbon — the equivalent of what 25,000 cars would emit.
Hard to find fault with this. Whatever their motives, Wal-Mart moving towards green has the potential to be a real force in the evolving green-tech and alternative [...]

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Searaser floating pump for wave energy

Wave energy seems like it holds some promise for a renewable resource.  Essentially, it is concentrated wind energy, since waves are formed by wind across large areas of water.  Capturing it has it difficulties, marine environments are tough on moving parts, tough to maintain, and frequently create energy that must then be transported somewhere.    Searaser [...]

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OwnEnergy Completes Financing Round

“OwnEnergy Inc., a company that enables landowners to develop and own wind farms on their land, has completed its Series A round of financing. EnerTech Capital Partners led the round, with Contour Venture Partners and the New York City Investment Fund adding to their existing commitments to the company. The amount of financing completed was [...]

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What a poorly written article. "Wind energy expected to grow dramatically."

I know I’m not the best writer, but this article from Wired Magazine is pretty bad. The headline is clear:
Use of wind energy expected to grow dramatically.
Later, buried in the article:
But the report cautioned that its findings were not meant to predict that such growth would, in fact, be achieved, [...]