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Power from Turbulent Winds

Posted on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 posted by posted by Mak @ 10:09 PM

In coos Bay, Oregon the South Coast has some notoriously turbulent winds, but as the nation looks towards a "green"-er future a local inventor is hoping to take those resources and power up the community.Inventor Mary Geddry has designed a wind powered DC generator called the V-LIM Turbine, and while the wind energy technology has been around for a while, she says her turbine is a new concept. In essence the turbine is the generator. Geddry says unlike most turbines, the V-LIM is also designed to work well with turbulent winds.

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Wind power-Air forced underground could provide energy

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Storing compressed air below ground could provide the grid with wind power when it's needed, not just when it blows.Pumping compressed air underground so it can be extracted later to generate electricity could prove one of the most effective ways in the short term for Ontario to add vast amounts of renewable energy to the power system, industry experts say.

The basic concept is that cheap, surplus electricity available overnight is used to compress air and inject it into underground reservoirs, like a salt cavern or depleted gas field. When power is needed during the day and can fetch a higher price on the market, the air is released, exposed to heat and put through an expansion turbine that generates electricity.

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A plan to restore Wellington hydro-plant for green electricity

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The National Trust wants the old Wellington Hydro-Electric Power Station restored and recommissioned to generate clean electricity. A plan to restore the defunct Wellington Hydro-Electric Power Station includes re-commissioning the 52-year-old plant to generate enough “green” electricity to power the nearby coal-mining town of Collie, the National Trust has revealed.Estimates showed it could generate about 9600 megawatts an hour of electricity from a minimum 200 days or more if water was released more often.

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Capturing All Energy of All Visible Sunlight - Ohio State University

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At Ohio State University, the future of solar technology is being made. Recently researchers discovered a way to capture all the energy of all visible sunlight. By combining certain conductive plastics and alloy they created a material that is capable of generating far more output than conventional photovoltaic cells. Using a supercomputer to model different configurations of molecules, researchers were able to determine a hybrid material for testing. They synthesized this material and measured it for frequency of light absorbed and also for length of time electrons remained free. More from here

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