So forcing a wind generator to regulate by the hour was unfair to intermittent generation.

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The brand new visitor and education centre is powered by green energy, produced by its own wind generator.

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Residents of Waubra, a town near Victoria's biggest wind generator, recently complained that low-frequency noise was causing headaches and earaches.

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Portland's 'green' gym will have spinning bikes connected to wind-generator motors.

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Such a grid is being tested at the army's model forward operating base (FOB) in Fort Irwin, California, along with prototypes of a mobile, hybrid power station that combines solar panels and wind turbines with a conventional generator.

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Neither solar nor wind are powerful enough to carry the heavy load that a backup generator must provide to a facility such as a hospital or a school or a county prison.

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However, big gusts of wind can transmit too much energy into the critical components (gearbox and generator), essentially destroying them.

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In other solar news, the Westmill Solar Cooperative launched the world's largest community-owned solar project in the UK, a group of African teenagers developed a pee-powered energy generator and Tunisian company Saphon Energy unveiled a new bladeless, bird-friendly wind turbine.

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