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Windspire: 1 kW Wind Turbine for Your Backyard

September 10, 2007 – 3:26 am

TreeHugger
With its sleek, bladeless design and capacity to produce nearly 2000 kilowatt hours per year, the Windspire might just inspire some YIMBYism — that’s Yes, In My BackYard — about wind power. At 30 feet tall and 2 feet wide, the propeller-less design is bird-safe, relatively quiet — it produces about 25 decibels of noise [...]

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Colossal Magnetic Levitation Wind Turbines Proposed

July 27, 2007 – 4:47 pm

TreeHugger
It’s a ambitious vision of a magnetically levitated wind turbine that can generate one gigawatt of energy (enough to power 500,000 homes). This is the device proposed by a new Arizona-based company, MagLev Wind Turbine Technologies. The company claims that it can deliver clean power for less than cent per kilowatt hour using this wind [...]

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