The Green Technocrat

An article posted today on the Scientific American website caught my eye a few minutes ago.  The article, titled The Tide Is Turning: Turbine Rides Underwater Currents Like a Kite discusses a new type of turbine being developed by  University of Strathclyde’s Energy Systems Research Unit (ESRU) in Scotland, which floats on the surface of [...]

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This is a pretty good step by step description (using Flash Multimedia) of how a wind turbine works.

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