Shawn Frayne, president of Honolulu and Hong Kong-based Humdinger Wind Energy, is a prolific inventor and innovator whose work has been inspired by the need for resourceful problem-solving in the world's most vulnerable regions.While working in Haiti, Frayne noted that providing wind power on a global scale would require hardware that's simpler and much cheaper than what we've got. In response, he teamed with aeronautical engineer Jordan McRae and mechanical engineer Dr. Kurt Kornbluth to develop the Windbelt (pictured below), a radically different power generator that uses a fluttering me...
For the first time, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation regulating greenhouse gases. Due to intense lobbying by industries that would incur added cost, such as coal powered utilities, HR 2454 barely was approved by a vote of 219 to 2...
We've been reading here and there that research is beginning to show that wind speeds are slowing down due to climate change making wind-powered energy less promising. Some would simply call this incredibly ironic, but we consider this a call-to-...
By Stacy Feldman, originally published June 24, 2009, at SolveClimate.comWashington is starting to wake up to something that's been obvious to marine scientists for years. The winds blowing off U.S. waters could be a key to a national clean energy an...
