Wind power can help governments deal with accelerating climate change crisis

        According to one of those studies, The Emissions Gap Report, which was coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, shows that greenhouse gas emissions are now about 14% above where they need to be in 2020.         Released Wednesday, the report says that the concentration of … Read more

Wind power in US same as taking 13 million cars off the road

       The report — Wind Power for a Cleaner America: Reducing Global Warming Pollution, Cutting Air Pollution and Saving Water — adds that wind power saved the equivalent amount of 26 billion gallons of water, more than enough to meet the annual domestic use needs of a city the size of Boston.         Released last … Read more

A renewable energy future for the Gulf? – COP 18

         “The GCC countries are ideally suited to the rapid introduction of renewable energy”, said Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute.          The meeting highlighted the increasing importance of renewable energy in facilitating the prospects for a sustainable future. The Gulf, in particular, has a key role to play in the transition to … Read more

How noisy is a wind turbine?

        How would you describe the noise a wind turbine makes?         It depends on where you stand and listen!         A typical modern wind turbine, at source, produces noise which is dominated by broadband aerodynamic noise from the blades, and this typically has a noise emission spectrum similar to a ‘hushing’ sound.       In … Read more

“EU must permanently reduce supply on the carbon market”

         Scratch a little deeper and you might find that the study – based on a questionnaire given to two sets of adults in Maine, USA, one living near a wind farm and one not – is not quite as conclusive as it first might seem.          First, the sample size is small, “twenty-three and … Read more

Wind power can help governments deal with accelerating climate change crisis

         According to one of those studies, The Emissions Gap Report, which was coordinated by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, shows that greenhouse gas emissions are now about 14% above where they need to be in 2020.           Released Wednesday, the report says that the concentration of warming gases like … Read more

Wind power in US same as taking 13 million cars off the road

        The report — Wind Power for a Cleaner America: Reducing Global Warming Pollution, Cutting Air Pollution and Saving Water — adds that wind power saved the equivalent amount of 26 billion gallons of water, more than enough to meet the annual domestic use needs of a city the size of Boston.      … Read more

A renewable energy future for the Gulf? – COP 18

        “The GCC countries are ideally suited to the rapid introduction of renewable energy”, said Eicke Weber, Director of the Fraunhofer Institute.          The meeting highlighted the increasing importance of renewable energy in facilitating the prospects for a sustainable future. The Gulf, in particular, has a key role to play in the transition to a … Read more