Comments on: Early DOE Funded Wind Start-Up Nordic Windpower Lands VC Funding http://cleantechnica.com/2010/01/11/early-doe-funded-wind-start-up-nordic-windpower-lands-vc-funding/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Lars Mach http://cleantechnica.com/2010/01/11/early-doe-funded-wind-start-up-nordic-windpower-lands-vc-funding/#comment-102529 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:51:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=4430#comment-102529 Wow! It costs a tiny fraction of these investments to design, build and certify a modern wind turbine from scratch! All that the “start up” has done was to buy the rights on a 13-year old Swedish turbine technology that was laid off in Europe. Two-bladed machines are no longer eligible for permits in Europe due to acoustic and visual noise.
It is amazing how marketing can present such outdated technology from Europe as an innovation at all… In Europe – where wind energy has experienced incredible support through funding and feed-in tariffs – that machine had been no success at all.

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