The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems
Hello World’s Ashlee Vance paid a recent visit to Iceland’s capital city of Reykjavik to see the next part of the green energy story. He found a start-up called Icewind that is building a new type of funky wind turbine designed to perform well in low-wind conditions but also to slow itself down in high-winds, preventing it from catching on fire or ripping apart.
Watch the full episode of ‘Hello World: Iceland’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ZRT…
Post Series: Iceland
- 1.Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years
- 2.Iceland’s Down Syndrome Dilemma
- 3.From Iceland with Love
- 4.How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers – BBC News
- 5.How Iceland Beat The Banks
- 6.The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems
- 7.The Tech That Could Fix One of Wind Power’s Biggest Problems
- 8.Afforesting Iceland – a cause for optimism
- 9.An energy plant with negative CO2 emissions
- 10.Turning CO2 into stone in Iceland – earthrise
- 11.Why Misunderstanding Killer Whales is Threatening their Survival | Earth Unplugged
- 12.In Iceland, a memorial to a vanished glacier
- 13.Puffins | National Geographic