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Maryhill Museum of Art with spring lupines. (Photography: Nayland Wilkins) This isolated museum, which sits on 5,300 acres located in Washington State’s Columbia River Gorge about two hours east of Portland, derives some of its annual income from leases for the 15 wind turbines that have been installed on its grounds, part of a huge [...] Maine wind power projects. (windforme.org) Central Maine Power Co.’s $1.4 billion transmission system upgrade isn’t designed to handle the power that can be made available at times from new and existing alternative energy plants. This story is increasingly common. Renewable energy is widely distributed and can flucuate instantly in amounts of power generation, something [...] A tiny fraction of Scottish offshore wind and six more turbines than the US has in total. (Credit: Cleantechnica.com) Wind power company Gamesa has cancelled plans to installed a solitary wind turbine off the Virginia coast, citing regulatory uncertanties, lack of an offshore grid, expiration of tax credits, and difficulties in getting locations approved. Other countries [...] Windstalks create power from piezoelectric energy generated when wind moves the stalks. Credit: windpoweringamerica.gov Most people would probably choose California as the state with the highest percentage of electricity generation from wind power. As it turns out, California isn’t even close as it gets about 4% of its power from wind. The top honor goes South Dakota, with a whopping 22% of its power generation from [...] South Dakota, at 22%! Followed by Iowa, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Oregon, and Oklahoma. Interesting, isn’t is, that many of them are red states? Maybe conservatives aren’t as opposed to renewable energy as we might be led to believe. Conspicuous by its absence in the top ten is California, which has [...] A Sustainable Business email juxtaposed these two headlines Denmark plans 100% renewable energy by 2050. They already get 25% of their energy from wind while the US, despite all the bleating about the wonderfulness of renewable energy, manages a pathetic 2.9%. US to get first offshore wind turbine in Virginia in 2013, assuming of course [...] Denmark. The US might have one offshore wind turbine soon Yes, that’s ‘turbine’, not ‘turbines.’ Virginia may install one turbine to test things out, assuming the Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers approve the project. If installed it will be the first and only offshore wind turbine in the US. Hey, maybe they [...] This helium-filled shell with a wind turbine inside performed well in tests and could product twice as much power as conventional turbines. It is tethered and rises to 350 feet. Germany plans to replace their nuclear power plants with renewable energy and will be constructing ginormous offshore wind farms and gigantic new grids. Their country is unified about renewable energy and indeed already is a world leader in installed solar. Meanwhile, back in the USA, Congress just decimated subsidies for renewable energy and we still [...] |  | ||||
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