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ANNAPOLIS, Md., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Clean Wind Energy Tower, Inc. (OTCBB: CWET) announced the publishing of its patent titled Efficient Energy Conversion Devices & Methods (U.S. Pat. No. 8,120,191) by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent covers specific aspects of deploying multiple turbines in a wind tunnel coupled to a novel hydraulic system capable of maintaining high efficiency hydraulic to electric conversion under a wide variance of...
The United States Faces Serious Risks of Brownouts or Blackouts in 2009, Study WarnsA new study released this week highlights what experts have been saying for years:Â the U.S. faces significant risk of power brownouts and blackouts as early as next summer that may cost tens of billions of dollars and threaten lives.The study, "Lights Out In 2009?" warns that the U.S. "faces potentially crippling electricity brownouts and blackouts beginning in the summer of 2009, which may...
By Libby, Cara Testing a parabolic trough in New Mexico. Photo courtesy Sandia National Laboratory. As utilities in the United States seek to develop renewable energy projects, one promising option is central station solar power (CSSP). CSSP includes solar thermal technologies, such as central receiver and parabolic trough, as well several photovoltaic (PV) technologies. Solar thermal is of particular interest due to the emerging ability to integrate thermal storage into the plant design,...
By Blankinship, Steve Alabama's Mclntosh Unit 1 was an early CAES adopter. It was almost inevitable that Texas would see one of the first big grid glitches induced by a growing reliance on wind capacity. Late during the afternoon of Tuesday, February 26, the Electric Reliability Council of TexasERCOT-cut service to a handful of large customers in the Houston area after losing 1,400 MW of wind power over the previous three hours. During those hours wind production fell from more than 1,700...
