02/26/2008 TO Enviro-news

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

02/26/2008 TO Enviro-news

Ritter: A storm is brewing over renewable energy
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
Of this, existing wind farms generate 2700 megawatts, or 45 percent. • The California Energy Commission says we need another 5000 megawatts of wind power to ...
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Tapping The Source: The Power Of The Oceans
The Oil Drum - USA
The "island" uses wind power to pump water out of the enclosed area. An obvious extension to this idea would be to harness ocean energy as well - letting ...
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10 things the nation must do to avert an energy crunch (and ...
Houston Chronicle - United States
US energy needs demand that government and industry engage in a program to develop alternative energy sources — wind, solar and hydrogen, ...
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Imagine a world that's energy-rich
Houston Chronicle - United States
If 100 million local sites each had their own local storage (based on improved batteries, hydrogen conversion systems and fly wheels), and they locally ...
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Natural Gas: The Alternative Clean Energy Investment
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Also NG powered cars will rise in use with both NG cars, and fuel cell/Hydrogen powered cars increasing in use. Currently the easiest way to get free ...
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Fuel of the future?
Indianapolis Business Journal - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Woodall, however, believes this problem can be solved by using cheap, pollution-free, solar, wind or nuclear power in the recycling process. ...
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Oscars Add A Bit More Green To This Year’s Awards Ceremony
Ecorazzi - Ithaca,NY,USA
Now obviously, they’re not going to be throwing a wind turbine up on the roof of the Kodak Theater to supply green energy for the event. ...
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Hydrogen filling stations and vehicles in West Denmark summer 2008
Fuel Cell Today (press release) - Royston,England,UK
The hydrogen production based on wind power and the production plant is operated by a local energy company. Seven variations of fuel cell hybrid vehicles ...
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Alternative fuels already being used
News Record - Cincinnati,OH,USA
According to The New York Times, Hunting School, a school in Long Island, NY has produced a wind power project that could cost as much as $500000 initially, ...
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Oscars Green On The Red Carpet
Malibu Arts Reviews - Malibu,CA,USA
Carbon offsets into wind and solar power projects for generators used were purchased from The Bonneville Environmental Foundation, a non-profit organization ...
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"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."