Posted in Business & Politics on Sep 19th, 2008
Perhaps the next green power revolution will come out of Israeli engineering.
Hillpoint Energy CEO Ben Spitz told Green Prophet’s Tyson Herberger his company’s Israeli development team will soon unveil a one megawatt high-altitude wind turbine. They are filing for a provisional patent, and hope to officially announce the new design “in the coming weeks.”
While Dubai [...]
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Posted in Architecture & Urban on Sep 18th, 2008
Cutting Edge Architectural Design - Innovative Power Generation
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Posted in Business & Politics on Aug 8th, 2008
(Flickr image credit: shlevich)
Though not a significant supplier of alternative energy, yet, Israel is just about to get a little greener. The country aims to have 5% of its national energy supply come by way of the wind by 2012. Seems like it is on the way. According to Globes, the Public Utilities Authority has [...]
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Posted in Science & Technology on Jul 13th, 2008
We’ve explored the heady possibilities of wave energy…But what about wind? Wind turbines, those modern day versions of Don Quixote’s windmills, may have some environmental drawbacks, according to research being carried out by the Israel Ornithological Center, a branch of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. The study appears to center around [...]
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