“STUDENTS can now build their own model wind turbine thanks to training undertaken by their teachers during the mid-term break”.
Article about KidWind in Ireland. KidWind training is provided by CREDIT in association with IWEA, Wind Skillnet and corporate sponsors.
From the Irish Examiner article, published Friday, November 04, 2011.
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“In one application, a ZESS 500 battery will store power generated by an 850 kW wind turbine that already provides half the power for Ireland’s Dundalk Institute of Technology Centre for Renewable Energy Project. This installation of a ZESS 500 with a wind application will let the campus operate independent of the electrical grid.”
(Not entirely accurate: we will always need the grid.) Article about battery technology in wind.
From the Windpower Engineering & Development article, published February 24th 2010.
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WHEN the fearsome Cuchulainn was transformed by the rage of battle into a Celtic Incredible Hulk, according to Irish mythology, the warrior’s intensity melted snow for 30 feet around him. That was an impressive generation of alternative energy from this Achilles-like hero so closely associated with Dundalk, but this town on Ireland’s east coast is turning to less ephemeral kinds of power as it tests technologies to reduce the country’s thirst for fossil fuels.
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