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When the wind blows Wind power gets a bad rap after the Texas blackouts	Sir Oolius	29 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The Competitive Enterprise Institute's Iain Murray warns of the dangers of renewables: While we're on the subject of renewables: here's further proof that wind power is no panacaea for the nation's looming electricity crisis. The wind dropped in Texas, and caused blackouts. Indeed, an unexpected demand spike not met by coal-fired power plants wind power caused irreparable harm by unfairly favoring the unwashed masses over 'large industrial customers who are paid to ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Wildcatting the wind in Texas Conventional energy vs. renewable energy	Joseph Romm	27 Feb 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- As all eyes turn toward Texas this week in advance of the Democratic primary, we will see a state that is beginning its transition to a new energy economy. Texas is grappling with a shift the entire nation faces -- and as usual, it's doing it on a big scale. When it comes to energy and to carbon emissions, Texas is a place of super ...
Topics: coal, energy, nuclear power, oil, renewable energy, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Notable quotable	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
'I have the same feelings about wind as I had about the best oil field I ever found.' -- financier and oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens
Topics: energy, oil, quotables, wind power (all these topics)

Against the wind	Sarah van Schagen	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Cute take on wind power:
Topics: energy, wind power (all these topics)

Theo Jansen's creatures Wind-powered autonomous artificial life	Jerome Woody	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A friend of mine showed me this video last weekend, and I just wanted to show you all how freaking cool it is. It's a ongoing work of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, who's literally creating artificial creatures that can move on their own and survive autonomously on a beach. Wind-powered and updated using simulated genetic evolution ... well, just look! Outside of the coolness factor, the ramifications of this project -- creating autonomous, renewable-energy-powered, z ...
Topics: art, brilliance, energy, innovation, wind power (all these topics)

The Check's in the Gale Wind-power technicians are in high demand		05 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 2:54 PM on 05 Feb 2008 As the wind industry experiences a huge boom, trained technicians are in high demand. Wind techs must have smarts in mechanics, hydraulics, computers, and meteorology -- and, of course, not be afraid of heights. The relatively new industry's oldest independent training programs aren't even five years old, and the industry is hustling to support training programs at community and technical colleges ...
Topics: business, energy, green jobs, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Radars of the Lost Mark British military may obstruct planned wind farms due to radar fears		04 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 8:33 AM on 04 Feb 2008 Echoing recent concerns of the U.S. military, the British Ministry of Defense has stepped up its opposition to some wind power projects due to concerns over turbines' impact on radar installations. The Ministry of Defense has lately objected to at least four proposed wind farms claiming they'd cause radar troubles; wind farm proponents fear more such opposition in the fut ...
Topics: England, national security, news, wind power (all these topics)

Rise to Power Clean-tech and wind power both soaring		18 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:23 PM on 18 Jan 2008 Investment in clean-tech companies rose 44 percent from 2005 to 2006, and jumped an additional 44 percent from 2006 to 2007, soaring to $5.18 billion, according to the Cleantech Group LLC. Last year in clean-tech, energy generation received $2.75 billion in investment, followed by energy storage ($471 million) and transportation ($445 million). And you know what that means: "More new car companies were fi ...
Topics: business, cars, energy, news, renewable energy, tech, wind power (all these topics)

The Fleiss is right Former Hollywood madam to open wind-powered brothel	Sarah van Schagen	17 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Heidi Fleiss. Ten things I didn't know about former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss until I read this awesome Elle story: She's a vegetarian. She calls herself a tree hugger. She owns 24 parrots. She runs a laundromat called Dirty Laundry in Pahrump, Nev. (Pahrump!) Her next business venture will be wind-powered. It will be a brothel. For women. (There go the blow-job jokes.) Called the Stud Farm. Where clients can "get a m ...
Topics: business, celebrity, energy, innovation, sex, wind power (all these topics)

Caping By Cape Wind project given preliminary environmental approval		14 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 2:58 PM on 14 Jan 2008 Seems it was only October that the controversial Cape Wind project in Nantucket Sound was dealt a setback. Now here it is January, and the wind farm that NIMBYs love to hate is inching forward, having been given preliminary environmental approval from the Minerals Management Service. After a public comment period, the final fate of the project is expected to be announced later this year. source ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Cape Wind on track Draft EIS for Nantucket Sound wind project is positive	Erik Hoffner	14 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The Mineral Management Service's Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the Cape Wind project is just out, and so far looks very positive, finding no environmental reasons to halt the project as it is envisioned. On a conference call this afternoon, a spokesman for Cape Wind stated that 'any rational observer reading this report' will deduce that this project will not produce adverse environmental impacts. The devil is in the details, of course, and he acknowledg ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, wind power (all these topics)

WTFx3	David Roberts	12 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Leader of group fighting Cape Wind project makes $203,000 last year (WTF?), quits this year to go work in the wind industry (WTF?), and hands over leadership of the group to a former coal executive (WTF?).
Topics: energy, wind power (all these topics)

Investors see opportunity in efficiency and wind Energy stocks are looking attractive	Joseph Romm	10 Jan 2008	Gristmill
The following essay is a guest post by Kari Manlove, fellows assistant at the Center for American Progress. ----- CNNmoney.com just released a summary outlook on the solar, wind, biofuel (mainly ethanol), and efficiency industry financial sectors. The two looking most optimistic are wind and efficiency, and thus both sectors are overflowing with opportunity. According to one investment portfolio manager, efficiency investments are reliable and essentially fu ...
Topics: energy efficiency, wind power, renewable energy, energy, economy, business (all these topics)

Moving Kite Along Cargo ship to use massive kite-like sail on trans-Atlantic voyage		02 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 10:10 AM on 02 Jan 2008 A huge cargo ship is set to cross the Atlantic Ocean this month with some help from a massive kite-like sail that could offset up to 15 percent of its fuel use on the journey. It's hardly a return to purely wind-powered shipping, but it's a start for the hugely polluting maritime shipping industry. "This is a serious attempt to reduce bunker [fuel] costs and polluting emissi ...
Topics: innovation, news, wind power (all these topics)

The renewable Janus Renewables are pulling two directions, nationwide and local	David Roberts	23 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Recently a study found that wind can serve as reliable baseload power. The key is to link wind farms together with a high-speed transmission grid. "This study implies that, if interconnected wind is used on a large scale, a third or more of its energy can be used for reliable electric power, and the remaining intermittent portion can be used for transportation, allowing wind to solve energy, climate and air pollution problems simultaneously," said Arc ...
Topics: electricity grid, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Offshore wind	David Roberts	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This exciting story about offshore wind in Britain reminds me that I meant to link a while back to a fascinating post on offshore wind by Jerome Giullet, who works in the industry. At the bottom are links to a bunch of other posts he's done on wind. As he says, "Wind is free, clean, indigenous, and available today." Go educate yourself.
Topics: energy, wind power (all these topics)

Mission to MARS Innovator patents floating wind turbine		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 2:55 PM on 10 Dec 2007 Traditional wind turbines have gotten a bad rap from NIMBY folk and bird advocates, but innovator Mac Brown thinks he can sway the haters. Meet the Magenn Air Rotor System (MARS), a 100-foot-wide, helium-filled turbine tethered to the earth by a copper cable. Hovering at 1,000 feet, MARS is capable of producing 10 kilowatts of energy. "Picture a spinning Goodyear blimp," says Brown. The government ...
Topics: energy, innovation, news, wind power (all these topics)

Belief in free lunches, tooth fairy still strong	JMG	10 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Once in a while a pundit will say something quite revealing without intending to do so. You'd think a newspaper in a state that was recently looking down the barrel of a 72 percent electric rate hike might have beamed onto the fact that power doesn't come from wishes, and often requires difficult choices: During a week filled with concerns about protecting the environment comes the alarming news that state officials are considering exploiting one resource to develop another. ...
Topics: energy, Maryland, wind power (all these topics)

Long Winded U.K. politician wants to power every British home with wind by 2020		10 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 12:46 PM on 10 Dec 2007 Every home in the United Kingdom could be powered by offshore wind farms by 2020, says John Hutton, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise, and Regulatory Reform. The long-titled Hutton said that investment in 7,000 turbines would admittedly change Britain's coastline and raise energy costs in the short term, but would be "a major contribution towards meeting the E.U.'s tar ...
Topics: energy, news, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

Interesting Kiwi story about anti-windfarm sentiment	JMG	06 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Apparently being in the antipodes doesn't change how people see wind farms: The "not in my backyard" view rules in a district where many residents don't mind wind farms just not any where near them, writes Bruce Holloway. ... In that respect, the experts advise that wind farm development in New Zealand is unfolding in a remarkably similar pattern to that of other countries. There is a relatively slow start to development, followed by a period of intense ac ...
Topics: wind power, energy, renewable energy, New Zealand (all these topics)

Hamsters for baseload power Innovative idea may reduce renewable energy costs	biodiversivist	25 Nov 2007	Gristmill
A study done at Stanford and published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology is described by its lead author, Cristina Archer, this way: ... each in a separate cage with a treadmill. At any given time, some hamsters will be sleeping or eating and some will be running on their treadmill. If you have only one hamster, the treadmill is either turning or it isn't, so the power's either on or off. With two hamsters, the od ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

How to keep wind power soaring	Joseph Romm	13 Nov 2007	Gristmill
If you are interested in how wind power can continue to soar, be sure to read an excellent study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: 'Using the Federal Production Tax Credit to Build a Durable Market for Wind Power in the United States' (PDF). The authors conclude: ... our analysis suggests that a longer-term extension of the federal PTC may provide a number of benefits, including accelerated wind deployment, reductions in installed wind project costs, and i ...
Topics: wind power, renewable energy, energy (all these topics)

Progress in renewable energy infrastructure Wind power installations set to soar 63 percent this year	Joseph Romm	09 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Some good energy news: US wind power installations are projected to jump 63 percent this year amid concern about global warming and rising fuel prices, an industry group said on Wednesday. The US wind industry is on track to complete a total of 4,000 megawatts worth of installations in 2007, or about enough to power 1 million average homes, according to the American Wind Energy Association [AWEA]. Tip o' the hat to state renewable energy standards and th ...
Topics: wind power, energy, renewable energy, progress (all these topics)

The Maine Event Maine rejects coal, embraces wind power		07 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:58 PM on 07 Nov 2007 Three cheers for the people of Maine (Mainites? Mainians? Mainists?): The community of Wiscasset rejected a zoning ordinance change that would have allowed a new coal gasification plant, while the state's Land Use Regulation Commission approved a 57 MW wind farm in Washington County. Give 'em all a lobster! sources:� The Lincoln County News, Natural Resources Council of Maine From ...
Topics: coal, energy, Maine, news, progress, wind power (all these topics)

An artifact of prior decisions otherwise concealed, part deux Why coal is cheaper in China	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill
Alternatives to coal are at a severe disadvantage in China: These are the realities faced by companies seeking to make themselves more environmentally friendly in China, where coal is king. Coal-fired plants are quick and cheap to build and easy to run. While the Chinese government has set goals for increasing the use of a long list of alternative energies -- including wind, biomass, hydroelectric, solar and nuclear they all face obstacles, from bureaucracy to ...
Topics: China, wind power, coal, energy (all these topics)

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