CREDIT has some neat equipment at its disposal including the V52, a large battery and an old electric van, among other things. Well some of the other things include this hoist, recently purchased second-hand online.
It arrived unexpectedly to our office earlier in the week where it found a temporary home overnight. Its permanent home will be in our new research space, located in a former cigarette factory.
In the background you can see a second-hand fume cupboard.
We are nothing if not thrifty!
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Raymond Byrne of CREDIT will present a short overview of the small wind market in Ireland on Wednesday April 25th at the 1st International Small Wind Association of Testers Conference. The conference takes place in Ithaca, New York, and is hosted by Intertek. This is the third in a series of international small and medium wind conferences that CREDIT has presented at in two months. Most recently, we spoke about the importance of good information at the International Small and Medium Wind Conference in Glasgow. In March, we presented a summary of the IEA Wind Task 27 at Husum in Germany.
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CREDIT and IWEA manned a stand in Trinity College on Saturday April 21st to promote KidWind at the Irish Science Teacher’s Association’s 50th annual conference. KidWind was originally developed in the US in association with the American Wind Energy Association.
KidWind training in Ireland is provided by CREDIT in association with IWEA. You can find out more about KidWind at IWEA’s website.
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Niall McMahon of CREDIT spoke at the International Small and Medium Wind Conference 2012 in Glasgow about the critical importance of good information for small- and medium-wind. CREDIT is working to build a platform for supporting turbine design and standards. Raymond Byrne of CREDIT also attended. Please get in touch with follow-on comments or questions. We will post more information about our work soon.
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Brían Carpenter, a BioMara Ph.D. candidate based at CREDIT and NCFS, took part in DkIT’s Water is Life day on March 22nd. He was interviewed by LMFM, a local radio station; the podcast can be downloaded from LMFM’s site.
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Raymond Byrne will present at the 3rd World Summit of Small Wind in Husum on March 16th. Ray is representing the IEA Wind Task 27 committee and will be speaking about consumer labels for small wind turbines. Husum is well known for its yearly wind energy conferences. The World Summit of Small Wind forms part of the New Energy Husum programme.
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Raymond Byrne of CREDIT will deliver a one-day course at DkIT about the Vestas V52 large wind turbine as part of Wind Skillnets programme on April 4th. The course has a standard charge of Euro 278. You can find out more at IWEA’s website.
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Karl Nors of the Danish Wind Power Academy will deliver a course at DkIT about the Vestas V52 large wind turbine as part of Wind Skillnets programme from March 26th until March 30th. The course has a standard charge of Euro 3400. You can find out more at IWEA’s website.
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Karl Nors of the Danish Wind Power Academy will deliver a two-day course at DkIT about Vestas V52 maintenance basics as part of Wind Skillnets programme on April 2nd and 3rd. The course has a standard charge of Euro 1600. You can find out more at IWEA’s website.
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Niall McMahon of CREDIT will be talking about the Centre’s small and medium wind research at RenewableUK’s International Small & Medium Wind Conference in Glasgow. The conference takes place on April 17th and 18th. Raymond Byrne of CREDIT will also be in attendance.
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Raymond Byrne of CREDIT will deliver a one-day course at the Irish Wind Energy Association (IWEA) about small wind turbine technologies as part of Wind Skillnets programme on March 28th. The course has a standard charge of Euro 122. You can find out more at IWEA’s website.
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Here on our Earth, we have a limited supply of fossil fuels. Fossil-fuels are fuels that have formed over tens of millions of years from dead organisms. Read the rest of this entry »
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The campus wind turbine was back online over three weeks ago on Friday December 16th, after almost two weeks down. It was a faulty electrical switch, in the end, that caused the outage. It was an unusual failure. It is almost as unusual for the wind turbine to be out of action for any length of time; we were pleased that it was spinning again for Christmas.
The campus wind turbine was installed in 2005 and provides approximately a third of the institute’s electricity. It has already paid for itself in offset grid power.
The machine is managed by Raymond Byrne.
The turbine also provides us with a research and training platform. Contact Raymond Byrne for more information.
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The campus wind turbine has been out of action for over a week. A fault developed in one of the system’s control units and the machine shut itself down correctly. Read the rest of this entry »
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The new CREDIT website – where you are now – is online. It’s still in beta; expect some changes over the coming weeks. Our news items are a little inconsistent, for example, with stories from 2008 jumping to a selection of updates from this year. We’ve a lot more to add: we haven’t said all that much about our facilities, capabilities, committee work or industrial projects yet. It’ll grow. Stay in touch.
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