Fresh attack on Wisconsin voters’ desire for a renewable energy standard would kill wind projects and sap state’s economy
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Wind farm tower segments ready to go up at Glacier Hills
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Home Made Energy
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Siting Windpower: The View From the Minefield
June 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
UTC to Buy Remaining Stake in Wind Turbine Maker
May 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ United Technologies Corp. said Monday it will buy the remaining stake in Clipper Windpower it doesn’t already own for about $112 million.
United Technologies currently owns a 49.9 percent stake in the California-based wind turbine manufacturer. Read more
Inform yourself : Small wind
May 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Small wind, power generated from small wind turbines, might be a solution for your home energy needs
Executive Portrait – Windpower for All (Part 2)
April 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Clipper Windpower, Inc has welcomed its new CEO: Mr. Mauricio Quintana.
Headquarters
Clipper Windpower, Inc.
6305 Carpinteria Avenue, Suite 300
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Tel: +1 805 690 3275
Fax: +1 805 899 1115
Email: info@clipperwind.com
Website: http://www.clipperwind.com
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Executive Portrait – Windpower for All (Part 1)
March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
A former CEO of a Wind Turbine Manufacturer Company (Clipper Windpower, Inc) needed a corporate headshot but not too corporate looking so we did this session outside.
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Headquarters
Clipper Windpower, Inc.
6305 Carpinteria Avenue, Suite 300
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Tel: +1 805 690 3275
Fax: +1 805 899 1115
Email: info@clipperwind.com
Website: http://www.clipperwind.com
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GM and EPA propose wind powered car – revised 05/21/09
January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
RP Washington D.C. May 19,2009 In a new symbiotic relationship between government-owned General Motors and the EPA, a new type of on-road land vehicle powered by the wind has been proposed. While the coasts have off shore wind potential, the Red States, especially Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas would use the wind power to deliver new performance in a new three-passenger car outfitted with sails and turbines. 
The vehicle will use technology yet to be invented. On board sensors and wireless-network-delivered information combining detection of car speed, power requirements, wind velocity along with GPS coordinates can be used to automatically deploy a sail fin in the proper orientation and direction. The wheels used are similar to roller blades which use silicone instead of rubber.
The idea of wind vehicles is not new. Crosswinds in Kansas and other Plains states blow unloaded trailers and VW Microbuses into other lanes and even completely on their sides. Taking advantage of wind, trucks would carry sensors to keep them constantly on the point of tipping in order to extract the maximum amount of power from the wind. Height restrictions supplied over the air would avoid striking overpasses.
Hollywood has also chimed in with Actor/Abuser Alec Baldwin thinking that stunt men could “do something with the sail.”
Additional uses of the technology fitted to all new cars, State troopers will also be able to locate speeders by GPS. Driver and vehicle data would be collected remotely to issue new federal speeding tickets. Fines for drivers detected using the system would be suspended if more than 2.6% of forward motion is extracted from the wind. Normal vehicles will be issued tickets based on network delivered by the device with fines doubling if the fuel consumption decreases below 27.8mpg for distances of 6 miles or more. Both numbers were arbitrarily chosen.
Yan Sung of the EPA, the new GM Vice President of Wind Alternatives, who now goes by the handle of VicePOWA stated, “the fine doubling came out of an idea of how to pay for the new technology and increase the benefit cost ratio to greater than 0.55.”
Cars with electric assist or hybrid designs will have pinwheels that deploy in parking lots to a small energy storage device, nicknamed “Battery” . The Battery is expected to light a single pulsing white LED that looks “really kewl” says VicePOWA. The Wind Assisted Special Project or WASP has been code named VESPA, the italian word for wasp. Because the government ownership, some experts have determined that no violation of trademark with the scooter market champion exists.
Wind siting rules clear legislature
December 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The legislative review period is over; the wind siting rule survived Wednesday’s ambush and emerged unscathed. The rule now proceeds to the revisor’s office for publication, and will appear on the books in time for January 1, 2011.
Come the new year, some 3 1/2 half years after we started rolling this particular boulder up the hill, there will be a statewide rule in place for permitting wind generators.