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Winds of Change Blow Renewable Energy Across Latin America [Slide Show]
DESERT BLOOM: Other wind projects are under consideration, including a 200-megawatt wind farm in the peninsula's Ipapure region and a 20-megawatt site at Joutkai, which would be close enough to Jepírachi to share the same substation...; © LARRY GREENEMEIER/ ANA MARIA BLANCO

Air Power: The Making of a Modern Wind Turbine and Wind Farm [Slide Show]
NACELLE: The box atop a wind turbine's tower, set back from the blades and rotor, is known as a nacelle. This is essentially the cover for the machinery that translates wind power into electrical power, including the gearbox and generator...; Courtesy of AWEA

Air Power: The Making of a Modern Wind Turbine and Wind Farm [Slide Show]
TOWER OF POWER: A modern wind turbine towers 90 meters in the air and can sport three blades, each longer than a football field. When incoming wind blows across both faces of a blade, the unique shape causes a difference in air pressure between the faces...; © Kathryn McCullough

Discoveries 2010: An Exhibition of Energy Sources from Past to Future
Energy from the High Seas: Offshore wind farm technology, which is still relatively young, has a number of benefits: It is widely accepted as a renewable energy source, and it relies on offshore winds over the open sea—which are considerably stronger and more reliable than those over land...; Guy Woodland

Air Power: The Making of a Modern Wind Turbine and Wind Farm [Slide Show]
HURLING ICE: Although electricity from wind turbines can cut down on carbon dioxide emissions and other pollution, some people have found flaws—their noise (a constant hum when the wind blows), their propensity to kill birds or bats when improperly sited, and their ability to fling chunks of ice, as pictured here...; © Kathryn McCullough

Air Power: The Making of a Modern Wind Turbine and Wind Farm [Slide Show]
GRID CONNECTION: Each individual turbine generator is connected to a local grid that then feeds into the broader regional grid, which relays the electricity to consumers. One of the challenges of wind power is that the wind often blows best far away from where the most electricity is used—in densely populated metropolitan areas such as New York City and Los Angeles...; Courtesy of AWEA

Discoveries 2010: An Exhibition of Energy Sources from Past to Future
Power Savers: In a future in which societies depend more on wind and solar power, improved battery technology that stores regenerated power as chemical energy could deliver sustainable electricity when the wind is calm or sunlight is unavailable...; Wolfgang Filser / Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung

Winds of Change Blow Renewable Energy Across Latin America [Slide Show]
CULTURE SHOCK: Jepírachi is the country's first utility-scale wind turbine field connected to the national grid and Latin America's first megawatt-size wind power installation. It was built in a desert where most inhabitants have only sporadic access to electricity...; © LARRY GREENEMEIER/ ANA MARIA BLANCO

March 19, 2008Mind & Brain
Self-Experimenters: Daughter of MRI Researcher Offered Her Brain for Virtual Dissection: Sasha Giedd would have been the only girl in high school with a time-lapse movie of her developing brain, until the IRB caught wind of it; JR Minkel

December 22, 2009Technology
Hoisting One for Wind Power: Climbing Crane Expected to Keep Vestas Turbines Spinning [Slide Show]: A Danish wind-power provider develops its own technology to maintain towering turbines in gusts roaring at up to 15 meters per second; Larry Greenemeier

August 4, 2008Environment
China's Big Push for Renewable Energy: China is now the world's workshop for wind and solar power. But can they reach their own ambitious goals for renewable energy?; David Biello

September 1, 1975Space & Physics
Interplanetary Particles and Fields: A "wind" of charged particles blows out from the sun, punctuated by energetic bursts. These particles interact with the magnetic fields of the planets in intricate ways; James A. Van Allen; Scientific American Volume 233, Issue 3; 10.1038/scientificamerican0975-160

February 28, 2011Environment
Molten Metal Batteries Return for Renewable Energy Storage: New ideas for making sodium sulfur batteries could make them the answer for taming the variability of wind and solar power; Peter Behr and ClimateWire

July 1, 1987The Sciences
Aerodynamics of Wind Pollination: Many plants are almost perfectly engineered to capture pollen from the wind. Cones, flower clusters and other structures channel the airflow-and sperm-producing pollen-toward reproductive surfaces...; Karl J. Niklas; Scientific American Volume 257, Issue 1; 10.1038/scientificamerican0787-90

September 19, 2014Technology
Used Batteries Might Help California Store Renewable Energy: A new report argues that batteries from old electric cars could help the Golden State store electricity from sunshine and wind; Anne C. Mulkern and ClimateWire

December 22, 2009Technology
Hoisting One for Wind Power: Climbing Crane Expected to Keep Vestas Turbines Spinning [Slide Show]: A Danish wind-power provider develops its own technology to maintain towering turbines in gusts roaring at up to 15 meters per second

March 10, 2008Environment
It Came From the Sea--Renewable Energy, That Is: Companies and governments are counting on underwater turbines, submerged "wind" farms, and wave-riding electrical generators to use ocean turbulence to keep the lights on

June 20, 2021Environment
The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth: Even “sustainable” technology such as electric vehicles and wind turbines faces physical limits and exacts environmental costs; Chirag Dhara and Vandana Singh | Opinion

October 26, 2021Renewable Energy
Congress Eyes $235 Billion in Clean-Energy Subsidies: The incentives cover established sectors, such as wind and solar, as well as emerging technology, such as green hydrogen; Benjamin Storrow and E&E News

May 25, 2022Weather
Florida Lab to Mimic Category 6 Hurricanes with 200-Mile-per-Hour Wind: With what will be one of the world's most advanced hurricane simulators, researchers will be able to reproduce wind, rain and storm surge; Daniel Cusick and E&E News

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