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Texas officials announced plans Thursday for the nation's largest offshore wind farm, consisting of as many as 170 windmills out in the Gulf of Mexico.
Plans for the world's largest wind farm, proposed to be built in South Dakota, have become more grandiose.
Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism.
IJMUIDEN, Netherlands (Reuters) - There is no shortage of wind in the densely-populated Netherlands but there is a shortage of space and in a nation which likes its houses small and its gardens cosy, opposition to wind farms is immense.
THE DALLES, Ore. - A giant turbine tower at a wind farm toppled, killing a worker atop the structure and injuring another who was inside, a company spokeswoman said.
Recently, a group of bicyclist bloggers on an "energy tour" of the Big Sky State peddled into Choteau, Montana. The rabble of college students had already toured some 500 miles and seen sites including an oil refinery and a 90-turbine wind farm.
"Out with the old, in with the new," has never meant more than it does at Steel Winds.
IF IT ever seems windy where you live, be thankful you do not live 10km up in the air. At that height, the jet-stream winds blow stronger and more constantly than ground level winds, carrying up to a hundred times more energy.
It is becoming increasingly clear that global oil production will soon go into terminal decline, with potentially devastating economic consequences.
Plans to build the world's largest wind farm in the Thames Estuary moved a step closer today. Ministers are expected to give permission for 341 turbines to be placed along a 144-mile stretch off the Margate coast, and for a smaller 100-turbine farm off the Thanet coast.
Retired senior CSIRO scientist Barrie Pittock said "governments of all persuasions had not done enough, both here and overseas".
THE endangered orange-bellied parrot now has a price tag to match its magnificent plumage: $32,000 a bird. That's what taxpayers will pay to protect the endangered species, which caused a $220 million wind farm to be blocked.
Cape Cod wind farm opponent: "Wind turbines are awfully attractive since they are prominent 'symbols' of an attempt to do just that [push toward renewable energy], are paid for mostly by private enterprise and subsidized by the consumers."
As someone who grew up in North Dakota, I'm excited to see this happening in my home state. Not just because of the economic development, but because of the "green" of it.
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