04/18/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

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04/18/2008 Wind, Energy, & Hydrogen News

Solar power company gets $100M boost
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Instead, the mirrors concentrate heat on small engines, where hydrogen gas is warmed and converted to mechanical motion, pushing pistons and generating ...
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Power Q&A: Joe Romm
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
NEWS: The author of The Hype About Hydrogen on the absurdity of electric pencil sharpeners, why concentrated solar thermal is promising, and which stocks ...
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A Balloon in the Wind (Market)
Greentech Media - Cambridge,MA,USA
It's a blimp, it's a balloon, it's a…wind turbine? With an eye on a $12 million second round, Magenn Power hopes to prove its airship-based technology is ...
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Nuclear power is underrated
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
They can help, but there is no way they can provide the levels of power we need, or the growth in electric power we need. Wind power is only viable in a few ...
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Electrical Contractor Magazine Tracks New, Unusual Energy Sources ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
... reports that wind power, with just more than one percent of the nation's electrical supply, now has enough installed capacity to power the equivalent of ...
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England opens its first hydrogen gas station
Business Green - London,England,UK
"We are looking at ways to power the electrolysis process using photovoltaics or an onsite wind mill," he said. The university said that the new station ...
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BMW Hydrogen 7 Mono-Fuel concept car runs on eco-friendly hydrogen gas
domain-B - Khandala,Maharashtra,India
Hydrogen can be easily produced using renewable, clean technologies like solar, wind, geothermal, and bio-processes and stored. A hydrogen car can refuel ...
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A Charge to Keep
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Now they are looking to improve and expand the use of this technology to harness wind power, so that energy generated on blustery nights can be used the ...
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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."