http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/ Articles on topics about sustainable living. Sat, 25 May 2013 02:26:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36754 Serge Young Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:37:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36754 Interesting that GE is looking back at old technology as model for new blade construction

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36705 jason Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:47:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36705 A wind turbine got blow over in my area not too long ago. Ironic really. Lets hope this takes off as it would be of great benefit to the “green” world

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36704 Ciaran_p Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:13:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36704 Great innovation for wind energy, makes sense

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36681 6789ten Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:20:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36681 Windmills way back in the day used similar tech didn’t they? Well, wood and fabric? You can almost picture the engineer staring at an old windmill and going “Hey, wait a minute…”.

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36654 Octavio Goff Fri, 04 Jan 2013 08:40:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36654 I’ve heard that the use of fabrics to provide cost-effective covers dates back to the WWI; back then they were used on airplanes. Awesome idea, though.

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36637 D.Scott Wed, 26 Dec 2012 15:24:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36637 This is a great development. Anytime someone brings up wind energy as a possible alternative to the burning of fossil fuels, it seems like the main knock is the that is is “too expensive”. Maybe if some green can be saved, people can / will become more green.

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36636 Porocni Prstani Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:50:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36636 It was about time . With all this nano tech around us , it is time for some real breaktrough. Lets hope that this will not be suppresed

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36619 Elmer Mullen Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:55:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36619 Wind energy always felt like something that needed to be more aggressively explored and used. This is definitely a step in the right direction.

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36616 Saurabh Saha Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:01:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36616 Wow! Engineers are really doing very well. This will be cheap as well as easy to install.

]]> http://eartheasy.com/blog/2012/12/new-fabric-covered-blades-to-lower-cost-of-wind-energy/comment-page-1/#comment-36593 The Freaky Tue, 04 Dec 2012 22:29:00 +0000 http://eartheasy.com/blog/?p=4516#comment-36593 What a great innovation. Anything that can reduce wind farm start up costs has got to be a good thing. A 25-40% reduction in blade costs is staggering

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