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Swift Wind Turbine Improves Energy Efficiency

After much success installing over 250 home wind turbines in Scotland, Cascading Engineering is bringing the Swift wind turbine to US and Canadian shores.

After having much success installing over 250 home wind turbines in Scotland, Cascading Engineering is bringing the Swift wind turbine to America and Canada.

The
company that specializes in plastics, partnered with Swift’s Scottish
designer, Renewable Devices, to install the revolutionary small wind
turbine in the U.S. households.

What sets the Swift apart from
other small wind turbines is the reduced noise it produces. In
addition, the turbine can be attached to rooftops instead of towers. 
With it’s five blades and “outer diffuser” ring, the company claims
vibration is reduced, resulting in only 35 decibels of noise.

Swift Wind Turbine Improves Energy Efficiency

After much success installing over 250 home wind turbines in Scotland, Cascading Engineering is bringing the Swift wind turbine to US and Canadian shores.

After having much success installing over 250 home wind turbines in Scotland, Cascading Engineering is bringing the Swift wind turbine to America and Canada.

The
company that specializes in plastics, partnered with Swift’s Scottish
designer, Renewable Devices, to install the revolutionary small wind
turbine in the U.S. households.

What sets the Swift apart from
other small wind turbines is the reduced noise it produces. In
addition, the turbine can be attached to rooftops instead of towers. 
With it’s five blades and “outer diffuser” ring, the company claims
vibration is reduced, resulting in only 35 decibels of noise.

An Explanation of the Resolving Power of Telescopes

Resolving power is not as well understood as the magnification of telescopes. Yet it is more important. This article explains resolution, what it is, and how to calculate it.

Magnification of a telescope is easy to understand. The higher the power the closer the look we get at images in the night sky (the bigger they look).  Resolution is another critical component of telescopes and it is very easy to understand if you think of it like television sets. Older televisions have a certain number of lines of resolution and the new high definition sets have many more lines of resolution so you get a sharper and more detailed image.  The same applies to telescopes; the higher the resolution the more lines of information we get so the better the image.  And this resolution has nothing to do with magnification. If you get closer to your television does the image get sharper? No. It just gets bigger. The resolution remains the same.