December 16th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
To tow the new gigantic off-shore wind turbines being developed in Europe far out to sea, a Norwegian company has devised a clever and simple mechanism. Their Windflip tows the turbine out almost horizontal - and then when it gets to the site tilts it up into position; using just the weight of seawater.
The structure contains 29 air filled compartments. Once at the site each of the compartments inside the Windflip is sequentially filled with water, causing the stern to slowly submerge, so that both the Windflip barge and the turbine it is holding flip up 90°
December 10th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
This week, Statoil has an application for a pilot demonstration of their Hywind floating wind turbine 12 miles off the
December 9th, 2011 | by Susan Kraemer
Not content with dominating the European off-shore renewable energy industry, European juggernauts of offshore wind have landed on the shores
May 20th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
As always, there were many great cleantech stories that I wanted to cover this week but couldn't get to. It is literally one of the most frustrating things about this job -- too many good stories. Here are 10 more from this week that I was planning to write on but couldn't
February 23rd, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan
Floating wind turbines really seem to grab our attention. I imagine this is for three reasons: 1) they break
September 21st, 2009 | by Susan Kraemer
Europe’s Cap and Trade has reduced fossil energy use and grown renewable energy Here’s an example of how fossil energy
