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Original Technorati articles tagged “wind power”

• in Green
  Groovy Green Goodness: Wearable Plants, Anime Style Electric Bikes
  Also Waste To Energy, A Cool WInd Turbine
  by namarchetti / on May 18, 2012
• in Green
  US Risks Falling Behind Developing Nations in Electricity Technology
  Developing countries are outpacing the U.S. in the race for alternative energy.
  by energizeme / on May 3, 2011
• in Technology
  Crowdsourcing and Idea Farming for Energy Management?
  Idea farming and crowdsourcing represent a new and unique avenue into power management for homes.
  by doylebuehler / on Mar 10, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “wind power”

 

• Invenergy’s Roanoke Co. plan delayed until 2015

  
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  The sight of wind turbines atop Roanoke County’s highest mountain — a view dreamed of by some and dreaded by others — is at least three years away. Invenergy, a Chicago-based wind energy company with plans to build 15 to 18 giant windmills on Poor Mountain, has pushed its target date to 2015. The company, which ...
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• Residents want a vote on wind project

  
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  PITTSFORD — Residents in Pittsford urged the town and local leaders to use all the power they have to stop the proposed wind farm project from moving forward. They want the town to be proactive in getting their position heard through a townwide vote and a change in the language of the town plan to disallow wind ...
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• Wind farm controversy buffets tiny Block Island

  
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  Block Island, R.I. – The afternoon ferry from Point Judith brought pallets of beer and wine, as workmen applied shiny white paint to restaurant porches and shopkeepers unpacked boxes of T-shirts and jewelry for the start of the summer tourist season. In the days leading up to Memorial Day weekend, Block Island was ...
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• Big storm brewing over wind debate

  
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  Battle lines for the future of the wind farm industry in Donegal are being lined up in advance of the appraisal of the new County Development Plan by all councillors at their meeting in Lifford tomorrow. Fears have been expressed in Glenties that the future of their tourist industry is in jeopardy following the ...
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• Auditor huffs over wind power rush

  
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  Many critics, including Wind Concerns Ontario president Jane Wilson, question whether we need wind power at all considering the province is currently producing more electricity than it can consume. In April, according to the energy ministry, the province netted more than $20 million by exporting electricity to other ...
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• Chance to make utilities more accountable lost for outages is gone with the wind

  
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  Power giants NStar and Northeast Utilities won a green light from Massachusetts’ regulators for their multibillion-dollar merger without having to answer serious questions about the catastrophic outages that darkened vast swaths of New England last fall, a review of merger records shows. The review by the New ...
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• Obama’s obvious contradictions

  
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  In October, 500 tiny warblers lay dead at the Laurel Mountain Wind Farm near Elkins, W.Va. This was the largest bird kill to occur at a wind farm but not the first. According to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, wind turbines kill more than 400,000 birds a year. Included in that figure are approximately 67 golden ...
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• Village anger over mast deadline

  
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  A resident has slammed the county council’s planning department after it failed to notify him of a planning application linked to a proposed windfarm on land neighbouring his north Northumberland farm. Belford Parish Council has joined in the criticism after it was only notified about the application a couple of ...
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• Local school children learn about the power of wind

  
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  Pupils from three local primary schools have been exploring the benefits of wind energy thanks to an educational partnership between leading Northern Ireland wind farm company RES and Action Renewables. St. Patrick’s, Loughguile, St. Anne’s, Corkey and Cloughmills Primary Schools have each taken part in an ...
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• The New Math of Renewable Energy: $50 = $100

  
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  By David Kreutzer, Ph.D. ~ Suppose you could produce $50 of electricity but it cost you $100 to do so. Would that make any sense? It would if you work at the White House. In a speech at a wind-turbine blade manufacturer in Iowa, President Obama called for extending two sets of subsidies that turn energy ...
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• UK green economy grew £5.4bn in 2011

  
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  Green goods and services valued at £122bn and now employs almost one million people, government figures show Record growth over the last year pushed the UK green goods and services market past the £122bn mark, according to new government figures that reveal the low carbon economy now employs almost one million ...
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• Four Big Problems with Obama’s Energy Subsidy Push

  
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  President Obama pushed for expanding wind energy and advanced energy manufacturing subsidies at the wind turbine manufacturer TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa, today. By Nicolas Loris ~ These subsidies have and continue to enjoy bipartisan support precisely because they benefit both Republicans and Democrats ...
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• Only renewables, not nuclear, could be too cheap to meter

  
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  Germanys long support for wind and solar energy is delivering zero-cost electricity at times. In contrast, the UKs new energy policy seeks to underwrite the rising cost of nuclear . . . → continue reading..: Only renewables, not nuclear, could be too cheap to meter
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• The Caucus: At an Iowa Factory, Obama Argues His Energy Policies Work

  
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  Visiting a town revitalized by a wind-turbine blade factory, President Obama called on Congress to extend and expand tax credits for renewable energy projects.
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• Congratulations to our friends from Clean Line Energy

  
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  Clean Line Energy received Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to begin selling space on their Rock Island Clean Line high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project that will run from northwest Iowa to Illinois. It will move 3500 MW of power from the best wind resources in Iowa, Nebraska, ...
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• Wind Turbine Test Center Coming To Clemson

  
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  Clemson University is building a turbine drivetrain test facility in North Charleston, S.C., that will be able to handle turbines in the 5-15 MW range. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling.
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• Another wind turbine blaze: Fire breaks out at Iowa wind farm

  
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  Less than two months after a Vestas V112-3.0 MW wind turbine went up in flames in Germany, another wind turbine has caught fire – this time, in the U.S. On May 22, emergency personnel responded to a fire at Iberdrola Renewables’ Barton 2 Wind Power Project in Worth County, Iowa, company spokesperson Jan Johnson ...
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• Judge denies temporary restraining order for Ocotillo Express wind project

  
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  Dashing hopes of tribal members hoping to halt destruction of the desert and desecration of the ancestor’s graves, United States District Judge William Q. Hayes has denied a temporary restraining order sought by the Quechan Indians to halt the Ocotillo Express wind project. During a hearing Friday in San Diego, ...
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• Veterans groups protest plan for wind farms off Normandy

  
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  Earlier this year, French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced a plan to build five wind farms off the western coast of France, one of them off the Normandy beaches of Juno and Omaha, stormed by Allied troops on D-Day. Work is to start in 2015. The 525-foot turbines are to be erected about seven miles from the coast. ...
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• Judge won’t halt turbine lawsuit

  
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  FAIRHAVEN — A Superior Court judge denied a motion by the town and wind turbines’ attorneys to dismiss the lawsuit filed by residents of Fairhaven. Judge Thomas F. McGuire, Jr., issued the decision on May 14. The judge’s statement referred to an earlier case the attorneys had apparently used as a basis for their ...
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