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The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast		25 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
The Blown Star State Texas planning massive wind-energy project off Galveston coast Texas has proposed what could become the nation's first offshore wind farm, about seven miles off the coast of Galveston Island in the Gulf of Mexico. The massive project would involve construction of around 50 wind turbines over some five years and would be expected to generate 150 megawatts of electricity, enough to power about 40,000 hom ...
Topics: energy, news, Texas, wind power (all these topics)

Sweet and Blowdown Wind-energy customers pay less than those buying fossil-fuel power		18 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Sweet and Blowdown Wind-energy customers pay less than those buying fossil-fuel power Customers of Xcel Energy in Colorado who purchase wind power got a pleasant announcement last week: Not only would they not be paying a premium for their clean energy -- they would be paying less than customers getting electricity from natural gas and coal-power sources. Xcel subsequently signed up as many new wind-energy customers in ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, news, wind power (all these topics)

All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies		14 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
All's Well That Ends Wells Investors bullish on clean energy technologies The clean-energy sector is experiencing a post-Katrina bounce. Petroleum stocks are looking less attractive after the storm damaged Gulf Coast oil rigs and refineries, and many investors seem to think pre-Katrina high fossil-fuel prices are here to stay, making renewable-energy investments more attrac ...
Topics: business, energy, news, oil, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, wind power (all these topics)

Give a Hoot, Offset a Poot On offsetting emissions from flatulence	Umbra Fisk	31 Aug 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I was wondering if there is any information about the average CO2 emissions from human flatulence. My friend (and I really do mean my friend, I'm not just trying to hide that it's for me) has a birthday coming up, and I think it would be a fun and meaningful gift to get him renewable-energy credits for his CO2 emissions. Thanks! Matt Ashland, Wis. Dearest Matt, When I first began writing thi ...
Topics: advice, air pollution, Ask Umbra, energy, wind power (all these topics)

Royale With Breeze Northwest burger chain switches to pure wind power		18 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Royale With Breeze Northwest burger chain switches to pure wind power Fans of Pacific Northwest fast-food purveyor Burgerville will soon be noshing on burgers and onion rings cooked up with clean energy. The Holland Inc. -- parent company of both the Burgerville and Noodlin' regional chains -- has announced that all of its restaurants will use regionally produced wind power for 100 percent of their electricity needs. Th ...
Topics: business, energy, news, wind power (all these topics)

Queer Eye for the Turbine Hip, new wind-turbine designs shed those fusty rotating blades		21 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Queer Eye for the Turbine Hip, new wind-turbine designs shed those fusty rotating blades As anti-wind-power crusaders make ever-louder indictments of unsightly turbines, wind advocates are fighting back with a new tool -- aesthetics. A handful of wind-power companies are teaming up with designers to develop new contraptions that can harness wind energy without the traditional spinning blades, as well as new plans for pl ...
Topics: business, energy, news, wind power (all these topics)

Urbana Renewal Illinois commission votes to expand state's clean energy sources		20 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Urbana Renewal Illinois commission votes to expand state's clean energy sources The Illinois Commerce Commission has approved a sustainable-energy initiative designed to increase the state's reliance on renewables, especially wind power. The plan is voluntary, but if it is fully embraced by all of the state's utilities Illinois could see 8 percent of its electricity produced via clean energy sources b ...
Topics: energy, Illinois, news, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Easy, Breezy, Beautiful On micro-wind	Umbra Fisk	20 Jul 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Are there any worthwhile resources or models that would enable me to generate my own electricity in a cost-effective way, using wind power? This is on a one-household basis. Matt Pines Toronto, Canada Dearest Matt, In jargon-land, you are interested in micro-wind. Little did you know! Because you are a blessed Canadian, you have an excellent resource, the Canadian Wind Energy Association's small-wind calculator. Just en ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, Canada, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

We Must Increase Our Gust On wind farms ... again	Umbra Fisk	18 Jul 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, In your response about opposition to wind farms, you neglected in your enthusiasm to say how much electricity from wind would actually be used and what effect, if any, the farms would have on our overall energy use. Can you cite an example of actual reduction of fossil- and nuclear-fuel use brought about by existing wind farms on a general grid? And if so, couldn't conservation bring even more benefits, witho ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm		15 Jun 2005	Daily Grist
The Man From NIMBY Wind-resistant senator owns land near proposed Mass. wind farm Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) has been blowing hard against wind power, a position that's mystified both his Senate colleagues and wind-industry advocates. Alexander introduced an energy bill earlier this year that included grants for solar and other sources of clean power, as well as incentives for "clean ...
Topics: energy, Massachusetts, news, politics, Tennessee, wind power (all these topics)

Everyone Knows It's Windy Argentine town may be model for producing hydrogen from wind		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
Everyone Knows It's Windy Argentine town may be model for producing hydrogen from wind The people of Pico Truncado in southern Argentina know the power of the wind that whips through their open land; it rips flags to shreds, dumps dust on clothing, and musses hair. But it also provides more than half of the town's electricity and could bolster its economic future. Pico Truncado already has four working windm ...
Topics: Argentina, energy, hydrogen, news, wind power (all these topics)

Starbucks takes fancy to wind energy Coffee giant will buy 5 percent clean power for its U.S. stores	Lisa Hymas	14 Apr 2005	Gristmill
You may hate its coffee, you may hate that it drove your favorite mom-n-pop coffeehouse out of business, you may just hate its bland ubiquity -- but you gotta give Starbucks props for its latest initiative. Today the java giant announced that it will buy enough wind energy to meet 5 percent of electricity needs at its North American stores. From the company's press release (not yet up online, the slackers): 'Starbucks is mindful of the long-term implications that clima ...
Topics: business, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

The Full Altamonty Pombo questioned on wind-power conflict of interest		07 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
The Full Altamonty Pombo questioned on wind-power conflict of interest Ah, they grow up so fast! You can tell that wind energy has joined the ranks of mature industries -- it's now got its very own scandal over accusations of improper influence peddling. Aides to Rep. Richard Pombo (R-Calif.), it seems, sent a letter to Interior Department officials pressuring them to suspend en ...
Topics: energy, news, politics, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Hot wind	David Roberts	16 Feb 2005	Gristmill
Frequent Grist contributor Bill McKibben has a column in today's NYT saying that environmentalists should get behind wind energy. He is sympathetic to some enviros' objections and rather gentle toward them. I fully agree with McKibben, but I can't say I share his sympathy. Oil and gas exploration is ravaging the American West. The nuclear industry is resurgent. And oh yeah, the globe is frying. If environmentalists take global warming seriously, and expect others to ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, Massachusetts, oil, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind		14 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Power Corrupts; Renewable Power Corrupts Renewably Guantanamo military base to be powered partly by wind We've got good news and bad news. Bad news first? OK: The U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is the alleged site of government-sanctioned torture, practiced on suspects whose guilt is at best uncertain, likely to leave a permanent moral scar on the nation's soul. The good news? It's using renewab ...
Topics: Cuba, energy, politics, US Navy, wind power (all these topics)

Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist		05 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Consistency Blows Wind power set to explode in 2005; bats set to haunt Grist Several readers pointed out -- rather snarkily, we might add -- the seeming dissonance between Umbra's latest column praising wind farms and the news, reported the following day, that some such farms have been chopping up quite a few bats. But hey, like Walt Whitman said: We are large, we contain multitudes. And get ready for more m ...
Topics: energy, United States, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms		04 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Batting a Thousand Bats dying in worrying numbers at Appalachian wind farms Unexpectedly high numbers of bat deaths at wind farms in West Virginia and Pennsylvania have caught scientists by surprise and made conservationists anxious. Whether the spinning turbines entice the bats or confuse their sonar navigation is unclear, but researchers say an estimated 1,500 to 4,000 bats may have perished i ...
Topics: energy, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

All We Are Is Farms in the Wind On wind farms	Umbra Fisk	03 Jan 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, I have been reading lots in the media lately about wind farms. As a supporter of green energy, I would obviously like to see a lot more of them and have long believed that people who oppose them are just another example of the "not in my backyard" mentality: they want a constant electricity supply, but not if it spoils the lovely sea view they paid so much for. Permission was given recently by the Briti ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, climate, energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

Windbalkers Wind farms ignite controversy in Scotland and California		04 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Windbalkers Wind farms ignite controversy in Scotland and California A proposal to build the world's biggest on-shore wind farm on Scotland's rugged Isle of Lewis is triggering a pitched battle. Lewis Wind Power, a joint venture between British Energy and construction group AMEC, claims the project would create hundreds of jobs and generate enough electricity to meet the annual needs of 1.1 million peo ...
Topics: California, energy, Scotland, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Dustup in the Wind Proposed wind farms spark controversy in Kansas		15 Oct 2004	Daily Grist
Dustup in the Wind Proposed wind farms spark controversy in Kansas It seems that controversy over wind turbines -- a common feature of the European political landscape -- has crossed the Atlantic and headed for the American heartland. In the Flint Hills of eastern Kansas, farmers and ranchers are organizing to ward off plans by wind developers to build dozens of turbines on the untilled prairie. The issue has divide ...
Topics: energy, Kansas, politics, wind power (all these topics)

Credit Where Credit is Overdue Congress renews wind-energy tax credit for a year		27 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Credit Where Credit is Overdue Congress renews wind-energy tax credit for a year A popular tax credit for companies generating wind energy will likely live on through 2005. Renewal of the wind-energy production tax credit was included in the monstrous Bush administration energy bill, but that bill is, to enviros' great relief, currently stuck in legislative limbo. However, lawmakers inserted the tax credit in ...
Topics: energy, politics, United States, wind power (all these topics)

Breaking Wind U.K. Military Accused of Thwarting Wind-Power Development		01 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Breaking Wind U.K. Military Accused of Thwarting Wind-Power Development The U.K. Ministry of Defense is blocking efforts to expand wind energy in the country, said a group of top scientists today. The MoD objected to 48 percent of applications to build land-based wind turbine farms in 2003 because it doesn't want turbines within 46 miles of air defense radar installations. While the MoD ...
Topics: energy, green living, renewable energy, United Kingdom, wind power (all these topics)

A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away		07 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Mighty Wind New California Wind Farm Blows Previous Efforts Away Between San Francisco and Sacramento lies the nearly completed High Winds Energy Center, a state-of-the-art wind farm expected to generate roughly 162 megawatts of electricity -- enough to power 75,000 homes -- and make wind power competitive with extractive energy sources. The turbin ...
Topics: business, California, energy, food and agriculture, green living, San Francisco, wildlife, wind power (all these topics)

Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Dollars and Sense Big Institutional Investors Press for Info on Climate Change Risks Officials controlling the largest pension funds in the U.S. on Friday called on publicly traded companies, federal regulators, and Wall Street to get serious about assessing and disclosing the financial risks posed by climate change. The comptrollers of New York state and New York City, the treasurers of California, Co ...
Topics: energy, international government agencies, wind power (all these topics)

Spin Meisters New Mini-Turbine Can Generate Electricity from Atop Homes and Offices		24 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Spin Meisters New Mini-Turbine Can Generate Electricity from Atop Homes and Offices The winds of change may soon bring mini-turbines to rooftops near you. A Scottish company today is launching Britain's first wind-power system designed to be affixed to almost any roof to supplement electricity gotten from the grid. The 3-by-2-foot box with three rotating blades, which will be sold for about $1,300, will be able to prov ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, wind power (all these topics)

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