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    New breakthrough in clean energy – A hummingbird-inspired flapping wind turbine

    Posted on by Shilpa Chatterjee

    In Tyer Wind’s opinion, scientists’ ability to precisely apply human and animal movement understanding to the working of machines has not met with much success so far. Ordinary and not so effective turbines have therefore dotted the wind energy sector. … Continue reading3

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    Drone discovers man chilling on the top of a 200-foot tall wind turbine

    Posted on by Gareth Mankoo

    Some folks love being left alone. Wait a minute. It isn’t some. In fact that vast majority of this planet could do with some solitary peace and quiet. It’s the places we seek this refuge that differs. For instance, when … Continue reading3

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    Zero 80 green yacht sports integrated wind turbine

    Posted on by gavril

    Trust an Italian designer to come up with a mode of transportation that’s’ nothing short of an elegant beauty. Called the Zero 80, this yacht design by Italian design studio Green Yachts is in essence a 24 meter vessel with … Continue reading3

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    Massive Scottish wind turbine sports its own helipad!

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    Scotland seems hell-bent on turning its grid 100% renewable-energy-powered and has been using the wind to its advantage since quite a while now. And to add to all that green juice, the Scottish are now preparing to bring in a … Continue reading3

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    Windstalk wind turbines use stalk-like structures to generate energy from wind with piezoelectricity

    Posted on by gavril

    Wind turbines aren’t really the only way to harvest energy from the wind. Recently, we came across this amazing design for a wind-energy generator that left us feeling like fleas! Called the Windstalk concept, these energy generators were designed by … Continue reading3

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    Patrick Raynaud turns wind turbines into art installations

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    Wind turbines aren’t really a pretty sight on a clear landscape. Artist Patrick Raynaud, hailing from the city of beauty, Paris, has come up with a great way to turn wind turbines into a lot more than just a green-energy … Continue reading3

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    Wind turbines integrating photovoltaic cells to generate energy when the winds are down

    Posted on by gavril

    A wind turbine without wind is like a show-fish out of the fish tank, absolutely useless. To make a wind turbine more productive when the winds refuse to blow, researchers at the University of Liverpool integrated photovoltaic cells on the … Continue reading3

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    Home-based wind turbine that hooks on to your window, the Aero E powers up smaller electricity hogs

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    If you reside in a windy place, perched on the top of an apartment block or probably in the middle of nowhere, here’s a great way to generate some green energy to charge up your smaller electronic devices like a … Continue reading3

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    The CitySpeed Turbine can generate energy from wind in New York’s transit tunnels

    Posted on by gavril

    The GE Power Your Home Ecoimagination Challenge sure is seeing some pretty neck-to-neck competition, with entries required to design a green future home. Out of all these, one entry sure sparked our interest, transit tunnels that generate energy! An idea … Continue reading3

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    President Obama’s dream: One million electrics in USA by 2015 could be a reality!

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    While President Obama is busy dreaming of the United States being the first country in the world to play home to a good one million electric cars by the year 2015, we’ve been scratching our chins and chewing our pencil … Continue reading3

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