2007-10-26
Richard Scott of Applied Energy, parent company of Xpelair, looks at the advances in wind-turbines for the domestic and social housing marketplace.
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Suddenly the world appears to be taking the need for renewable energy seriously, and you don’t get much more renewable than the modern ultra-quiet, high performance wind turbine. It's hard to imagine the wind running out, as long as the world keeps turning.
Renewable energy sources such as solar power, wind, wave, biomass, and geothermal are all low to zero carbon sources of energy.
They are also, for all practical purposes, inexhaustible; whereas energy from fossil fuels like coal, oil and natural gas cannot go on being extracted from the earth forever. The planet is going to run out of them eventually.
The use of fossil fuels also usually involves emissions of carbon dioxide, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen. The vast majority of the scientific community is now united in believing that the current mix of energy generation and use, is accelerating climate change and it’s devastating effects.
Small scale or micro-generation of energy is a key part of the Government's strategy for reducing carbon emissions and reducing the increasingly obvious impact of climate change on the lives of real people.
Over two decades an Xpelair micro wind-turbine can produce 11,000KW hours of electricity, saving more than 4.5 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
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Source: Applied Energy Products - Xpelair |
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