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Black Rock

Took a drive down the coast to Black Rock today. Unfortunately the 30
degree days of earlier in the week had passed and we had to make do
with a windy 22.
It was still nice to feel the sand between our toes and scoff (fish
and) chips on the beach though. :)

You just see Melbourne CBD in the background on the third picture.

                 

Masdar and Seychelles government assess wind power project

Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s multi-faceted future energy initiative wholly owned by the Mubadala Development Company, and the Seychelles Government announced they will be carrying out a wind resource assessment study for the proposed wind power project on the island of Mahe. http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidZAWYA20091028113540

 

Masdar City is an ambitious project and Masdar is a renewable energy company that can be Middle East first true foray in the renewable and green energy space. Now the wind project in Africa takes Masdar into the global arena and one step closer to becoming something more than a national or regional force.

Dedicated to Los Angeles

Hope y'all are chillin' on a very windy evening.

Stay safe.

Windsurf Makkum 2006

Windsurfing At Makkum (Holland) .. [+] ..

Watch an 80,000 pound wind turbine rotor get hoisted 300 feet to the top of the tower.

november sessions 2 - windsurfing chile

Windsurfer Victor Fernandez und Klaas Voget machten sich im November ..watch movie..

NOVEMBER SESSIONS 2 - WINDSURFING CHILE

SOME LABELS: Fanatic, surf, SWELL, Waves, Mfc, Pac ific

Yes, every watt counts; but "super projects" are cool

Since first writing about renewable "super projects," some developments:

Roscoe - Of course, recent news is that the Roscoe Wind Complex has come online, over taking Horse Hollow (also in TX) as the worlds biggest, but not by a huge margin (780 and 735MW, respectively).  Interesting to see who has the better wind, capacity factor and up time.  

Baryonyx - This firm is pretty much the definition of "clean + tech."  They have on and off shore land leases locked up in TX with plans to develop up to 1 GW on each of their two offshore sites.  The wind farms will power proprietary industrial data centers directly, thereby eliminating the guess work about where the green power goes.  

Titan - I don't know how this one slipped under my radar screen -- I hope it doesn't do the same to area air traffic controllers: the 2000+ 2.5MW Clipper Liberty turbines could present a hairy landing approach.  The plant -- if built -- could reach >5GW.  But located in South Dakota, I assume the project is entirely dependent on the subsequent success of the Green Power Express transmission project (or a similar venture).

Brightsource/PGE Solar - Plans for a 5000-acre solar plan in the Mojave Desert have been have been scrapped, due to -- ready for this? -- environmental concerns.  Brightsource will look for another 5000-acre site (how hard could that be?).  

First Solar PV in China - An American firm gets the business (NASDAQ: FSLR), but China will hold title to world's largest solar project, and not long thereafter, world's largest renewable energy complex:

"When completed [the complex] is expected to contain 6,950 MW of wind generation, 3,900 MW of photovoltaic power plants, 720 MW of concentrating solar power plants, 310 MW of biomass plants and 70 MW of hydro storage." 

I hope there are no environmentalists near by...