$10 billion will buy you a lot of wind power, and it’s even sweeter when that money comes from one of the world’s foremost oil tycoons.
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$10 billion will buy you a lot of wind power, and it’s even sweeter when that money comes from one of the world’s foremost oil tycoons.
2008 is off to a record pace for production of clean, renewable wind power. But that pace may come to a screeching halt if Congress does not renew critical incentives. The next several months are critical for the wind industry, especially in the wake of a new Department of Energy study that outlines how wind power could provide 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s work with the city of Greensburg, Kan., over the past year is bearing fruit, as the city is now rebuilding with a new emphasis on energy-efficient buildings and renewable energy, particularly wind energy.
We are off to LIGHTFAIR International 2008 Las Vegas, NV, to present energy efficient lighting and solar power solutions. Be back this weekend with some new ideas in energy efficient lighting to share with you all. Then June 5th, we are off to St. Maarten in the Caribbean for Enviroweek 2008, where we are presenting [...]
My friend Nick Rosen interviews Hugh Piggott, grand daddy of DIY wind, and our inspiration: