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fastcompany: WOW! theatlantic: Meet a Gargantuan Wind Turbine, the 7-Megawatt V164. You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice! Read more. “The annual output of the V164 is estimated to be 30,000 megawatt-hours, which is roughly equivalent to 2,787 households’ electricity consumption. This is all very different from the small-scale beginnings of the wind industry. In 1979, Vestas’ first turbine was the V10-30kW model, which produced about 40,000 kWh. That is to say, the V164 is expected to produce 750 times as much energy as the V10. Another way of looking at this is to consider Altamont Pass, Calif., the world’s largest wind farm with over 5,000 turbines when it was built in the 1980s. The entire combined annual energy production of Altamont is 1.1 TWh. The citizens of California could get the same amount of energy from just 36 of the new turbines. Thirty-six machines would replace 5,000.” Zoom

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Meet a Gargantuan Wind Turbine, the 7-Megawatt V164. You could fit the entire infield and outfield of Yankee stadium inside the area that this enormous machine sweeps. Twice! Read more.

“The annual output of the V164 is estimated to be 30,000 megawatt-hours, which is roughly equivalent to 2,787 households’ electricity consumption.

This is all very different from the small-scale beginnings of the wind industry. In 1979, Vestas’ first turbine was the V10-30kW model, which produced about 40,000 kWh. That is to say, the V164 is expected to produce 750 times as much energy as the V10.

Another way of looking at this is to consider Altamont Pass, Calif., the world’s largest wind farm with over 5,000 turbines when it was built in the 1980s. The entire combined annual energy production of Altamont is 1.1 TWh. The citizens of California could get the same amount of energy from just 36 of the new turbines. Thirty-six machines would replace 5,000.”

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African Huts Far From the Grid Glow With Renewable Power

As small-scale renewable energy becomes cheaper, more reliable and more efficient, it is providing the first drops of modern power to people who live far from slow-growing electricity grids and fuel pipelines in developing countries. Although dwarfed by the big renewable energy projects that many industrialized countries are embracing to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, these tiny systems are playing an epic, transformative role.

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How a smart, decentralized Energy Web is essential for managing renewable energy sources

The Energy Web is a power distribution system designed for managing a large-scale, widely distributed network of renewable energy sources

 A decade ago, Gnutella, Kazaa and other early peer-to-peer (P2P) systems showed that a decentralized approach to managing large-scale, widely distributed systems could offer many essential advantages compared to the traditional centralized approach. Since then, researchers have taken the decentralized design method far beyond music sharing, applying it to areas as diverse as database distribution and analysis of biological systems.