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Environment
Environment USA
Sioux Tribe Builds Wind Farm, Names it “Breaking of the New Day”
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is developing a wind farm on its reservation in the Dakotas in the USA. They have named it Anpetu Wi - “the breaking of the new day” - in the Lakota language. It is the first tribal-owned public power wind farm.
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Environment
Environment Norway
How not to Kill Birds With Wind Power Blades? Paint One Black!
Researchers from the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research and Sweden’s Lake Ånnsjön Bird Observatory have discovered that by simply painting one of a wind turbine’s three blades in black, bird fatalities could be reduced by 70%.
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Technology
Technology Germany
This Thing Floats in the Ocean and Makes Power
A German startup has developed a maritime platform that can generate off-grid renewable energy from waves, wind and solar sources. Its special power: a modular design, offering flexibility unique from other offshore wave energy conversion developments.
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