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• New Danish Smart Wind Turbine Sees the Wind, Adjusts Itself for Optimum Power Generation

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 588
  photo: Shane Gavin via flickr. Heres a tantalizing, if brief, glimpse at the future of wind turbine optimization: Physorg passes on the news that Denmarks Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy have announced the worlds first successful test of a wind turbine that uses a built-in anemometer to adjust ...
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• A New Hurdle for Cape Wind?

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 730
  Listing Nantucket Sound on the National Register of Historic Places could force developers to re-locate a long-disputed offshore wind farm.
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• 2010 Is the Year According to the Hermetic Order of Golden Dawn

  
  Cyber Poems — Authority: 126
  December 21st, 22nd or 23rd 2012 are the possible dates the world will end according to the ancient Mayan Calendar. 2012 has been calculated by some to be the first possible date for the passing of Planet X (Wormwood) and the end of the world, as mentioned in revelations, though this is highly debated. 2012 is also ...
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• Types of Alternative Home Energy

  
  Florondo — Authority: 131
  Home energy consumption is one of the main problems of people today. The fact is, we all need electricity to power our lives. We need the level of civilization that can be provided by electricity. However, most people think that the price they pay is just too much for the amount of electricity they get to consume. In ...
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• Native American Tribes Hoping to Thwart Cape Wind Power Project

  
  A Blog For All — Authority: 494
  First, there was former Senator Ted Kennedy who thought that the Cape Wind project would ruin his views and fishing grounds off Cape Code. Now, weve got two Native American tribes lodging protests... Get the latest news, notes, and analysis from the NYC metro area and around the world.
  8 hours ago

• Cape Wind Faces New Spiritual Opposition From Native Americans

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 588
  Tribes say unimpeded views for sunrise practices are needed. Photo: Peta de-Aztlan via flickr. Its been a battle thats lasted nearly a decade now: Cape Wind . The 24 square mile offshore wind farm project in the Nantucket Sound, smack in the middle of the high-rent district of Cape Cod, Marthas Vineyard and ...
  9 hours ago

• The Real ClimateGate: Who’s Stupid, Hu’s Not

  
  Big Government — Authority: 821
  So, China went big into windmill and solar panel production, causing the media and other liberals to breathlessly swoon over this further evidence of the wisdom of us mandating the things even though all it proves is that China is not dumb. Rich countries say all weather is now their fault and vow to spend ...
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• MA Makes Wind Energy Plans, ND Wraps Up 149-MW Wind Project

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 607
  The state of Massachusetts is still struggling with its wind energy plans and approval siting process, while a $300-million wind project in North Dakota has been completed that is capable of generating 149 megawatts (MW) of power.Massachusetts officials unveiled an updated plan for wind energy projects and other uses ...
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• Super Smooth: Magnetic Bearings Glide Closer to the Mainstream

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 588
  Image: New York Times Magnetic repulsion is a force that can make things levitate. This is the principal behind maglev trains and an emerging breed of wind turbine . The advantage of magnetic levitation is the fact that physical friction is cut drastically or eliminated entirely--stuff no longer has to touch at ...
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• 244 proposed renewable energy projects announced for California

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 454
  California has decided to obtain 33% of its total electricity by 2020 from renewable energy. To obtain the goal a list of 244 proposed renewable energy projects that could produce up to almost 70,000 megawatts of clean energy annually has been announced. These proposed projects consist of solar, wind, geothermal, ...
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• Vote Tuesday on Galloo Island payment

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  Jefferson County has become a popular place for developers planning wind farms. The problem is not everyone is on board with the plans. Brian Dwyer spent the day with one group that’s gaining momentum in the fight against wind towers on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario.JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — A big vote is set ...
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• Green Breweries Help Brewers Cut Costs

  
  Energy Business Daily — Authority: 124
  A number of businesses around the world are looking for ways to cut costs and one of the easiest ways to cut costs for businesses such as breweries is to go green. Today breweries around America are quickly migrating to green technology which is sustainable and helps them reduce costs.The New Belgium Brewing Company ...
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• Windfarms threat to curlews

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  Rare upland bird species like the curlew – the bird in the Daelnet logo and one of the most distinctive creatures of Britain’s wilder countryside – are being driven from their traditional nesting sites by wind farms, according to research in Scotland.Other species affected are buzzards, golden plovers and red ...
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• A different view of wind power

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  Having read the Dec. 9 commentary by Douglas Rooks, “Wind Farms: A piece of our future” and expressing my views directly to Mr. Rooks (which he kindly addressed) I would like to expand on this subject so that others might learn of a different viewpoint.I became aware about the wind-farm business when I overheard ...
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• Jay Cashman’s Buzzards Bay wind project boxed out by new state rules; State master plan doesn’t include his Buzzards Bay site

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  BOSTON — Environmental officials have finished charting where large-scale wind turbine projects could be built in state waters, and a Quincy company’s Buzzards Bay project has been left off the map.The state Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs included only two areas where utility-scale offshore ...
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• Highland County supervisors liable for noncompliance with Endangered Species Act

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  Wood Rogers PLC, the Roanoke law firm representing Highland Citizens, has advised the Highland County Board of Supervisors that allowing Highland New Wind Development to proceed without the Incidental Take Permit required by the Endangered Species Act will place the county in legal jeopardy. The Highland supervisors ...
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• Official: Conditions ‘normal’ before turbine collapse

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  FENNER — The 19 turbines that remain standing at Fenner Wind Farm did not record any unusual conditions the day that one of the 187-ton structures collapsed, officials said Monday.Last week, a turbine located on Buyea Road in Fenner, a town northeast of Cazenovia, toppled at about 4 a.m. in a cornfield following a ...
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• Governor Deval Patrick’s power play; National Grid donations flow after rate hike OK’d

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  Gov. Deval Patrick’s cash-hungry re-election campaign took in thousands of dollars in contributions from National Grid’s executives, lobbyists and their spouses at a private fund-raiser just days after the administration approved a massive rate increase and brokered a sweetheart deal with the utility.Patrick’s ...
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• Tazewell officials: Windmill decision could be rendered in February

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  TAZEWELL, Va. — A decision on a controversial wind-turbine farm for East River Mountain could come as early as February, according to Tazewell County officials.The county Board of Supervisors will meet today at 6 p.m. at the administration offices in Tazewell, but there is no mention of wind turbines on the ...
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• Study: Seabird won’t be harmed by wind project for Clallam, other PUDs

  
  National Wind Watch: News — Authority: 160
  PORT ANGELES — A proposed wind power project in Southwest Washington that the Clallam County Public Utility District financially supports will not have a significant impact on the small seabird known as the marbled murrelet, a scientific peer review concluded.Energy Northwest, a consortium of 27 public power ...
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