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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

No solar panels, no wind turbines, but the Aeroleaf WindTree: This tree produces infinite energy in your garden

Two wind energy generation units designed to look like trees. The trunks and branches are a white material, and the "leaves" look like green vertical shaped cones.
A new form of wind power generation technology with a focus on aesthetics is sweeping the green energy industry, and it’s expected that Aeroleaf WindTrees will soon be popping up in gardens across the globe as the nature-friendly innovation takes root in the market. The organic-looking, small-scale installations, which are ideal for urban settings, are fitted with microturbines that have the appearance of leaves on branches, making them far more pleasing to the eye than giant wind farm installations or solar panels.

The technology is remarkable in that the “leaves” can operate in winds from any direction and at speeds as low as 5.6 miles per hour. The devices are silent and don’t require much maintenance, making them ideal for urban areas and small- to medium-scale energy production, and they are suitable for commercial, corporate, or home settings.

The biggest model in the Aeroleaf range is the WindTree, which is 32 feet high. Depending on how it’s set and how many “leaves” it has, the WindTree has a generation capacity of between 4,200 and 10,800 watts.

Really good to see better alternatives coming out for green energy.

See eldiario24.com/en/solar-panels…
#Blog, #environment, #technology, #windpower

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Nebraskan Farmers Were Using Wind Turbines Before Environmentalism Was Invented

Old black and white hotos of a square wooden structure. The op is open, and two paddles of a wind turbine can be seen protruding. A man is standing in the front holding a wooden plank. He is wearing a boater hat and wearing a suite.
Many seem to forget that electric cars, windmills generating energy (whether electric or mechanical energy) are just not new ideas.

The difference is that the technology at the time was limited by what was known then. Today, we can make things work much more efficiently. With the networking of ideas, we are also able to exponentially improve what we know.

So many inventions have come about from society’s need to solve challenges and problems. And yet so many ideas were violently resisted as well – remember when all cars had to be preceded by a person waving a flag, or where it was thought that steam locomotives would cause cows to stop producing milk, when we thought humans could not travel faster than they could run, when we were not made to fly, when we thought 5G cell towers were going to cause cancer, and so the list goes on and on.

Our biggest problem today is we are a society of buying everything – so things cost more, we lose our ability to fix and repair things, and then we panic that a new invention is going to take all the jobs away. In fact, new things (like just moving from horses to cars, or typewriters to computers) have created more new jobs after the transitions.

Society’s difficulty is more one of not being willing to change, and today even more so, with the misinformation that is so popular.

See hackaday.com/2024/11/14/nebras…
#Blog, #change, #environment, #technology, #windpower

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Noam Bergman

Dutch wind farm to save eagles’ lives with #smart #cameras on #turbines

One of the biggest criticisms of the #wind farm proliferation in Europe has been the harm that the blades of the turbines cause to the local birdlife. Now it seems that there is a solution being tried out by a wind farm in Zeewolde (Netherlands), which involves the installation of smart cameras on the wind turbines.

The essence of the project is to have the cameras stop the rotation of the blades automatically if they identify the incoming object as an eagle, thus preventing a collision and injury or death to the animal. The smart device will be able to detect an object from a distance of 1,100 metres and then if the object closes in, at 300 metres the camera will identify it as an eagle and automatically stop the blades for a few minutes.

Why #eagles? Apart from the fact that they are rare and protected animals, being apex predators, their attention is usually focused on the ground below in search of prey. Thus, they might not even notice that there is an object ahead of them.

#nature #windpower #netherlands

Dutch wind farm to save eagles’ lives with smart cameras on turbines | TheMayor.EU

Next year, a wind farm in Zeewolde (Netherlands) will install smart cameras on its wind turbines with the aim of preventing collision between protected sea eagles and the blades.

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