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Will Republicans Save Wind Power?

Posted 02.27.2012

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From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The production tax credit (PTC) for renewable energy didn’t shrivel up and blow away when Congress failed to inc...

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Inflatable Wind Turbine From Segway Designer

Posted 12.05.2011

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From EarthTechling's Pete Danko: The inventor who gave the world the Segway – you know, that upright-riding, personal-transportation thing – is...

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Wind Turbines Get ‘MRI’ Treatment From GE

Posted 11.21.2011

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From EarthTechling's Steve Duda: In the past, the mention of an MRI machine usually brought with it bad news. For more than 30 years, the machines ...

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After a Scorching Week, Wind Power Lessons From the Texas Heat Wave

Denise Bode | Posted 10.11.2011

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Denise Bode

For three straight days in the real world last week, wind made the difference between keeping the lights on and the air conditioners running -- and rolling blackouts.

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Will Wind Farms Slaughter Golden Eagles?

AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ and JASON DEAREN | Posted 05.25.2011

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APPLE VALLEY, Calif. — Fears that whirling wind turbines could slaughter protected golden eagles have halted progress on a key piece of the fede...

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo Alliance, Shenyang Power Group, LTV Steel, Sca, Tianjin Pipe, A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., Green Jobs, United Auto Workers, Renewable Energy, U.S. Commerce Department, BlueGreen Alliance, Unfair Trade, Wind Turbine, Import Duties, Svenska Cellulosa AB, White Collar, Grupo Mexico, Wilbur Ross, Blue Collar, Rio Tinto, Charlie Rose, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Pbs, Manufacturing, U.S. Renewable Energy Group, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing Jobs, Wind Farm, Energy Independence, Jinxiang Lu, Bridgestone-Firestone, Arcelor-Mittal, Severstal, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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Weekly Mulch: Nuclear Plants will go up in Georgia

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger If you were to look out to the horizon of the clean energy field right now, you would see the hazy outlines ...

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Hell No! We Won't Send Our Tax Dollars to China

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leo W. Gerard

China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.

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Renewable Energy -- Not in My Backyard!

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Schwab

It seems many people support wind and solar energy so long as it's not in my backyard, and not in my hiking grounds either.

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Climate Change Protesters Superglue Themselves

Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011

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A group of climate change activists were arrested after supergluing themselves together outside a Government department in support of workers staging ...

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UFO Flies Off Wind Turbine -- What The Heck Is It? (VIDEO)

Kevin Grandia | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's obviously not a UFO in the sense of "aliens taking over the world" or anything, but this video shows a rather large weird semi-opaque object fly...

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Jay Leno's MagLev Wind Turbine Is Bigger Than Ed Begley's (VIDEO)

NBC.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jay Leno may have a ton of old cars that probably get four or five miles to the gallon, but at least he's talking about wind power on television! Or. ...

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Mariah Power Windspire: A Low-Profile Wind Turbine

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deemed the 'Best Of What's New In '08' by Popular Science Magazine, the innovative Mariah Power Winspire is sure to be the must-have wind turbine in 2...

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Green Edge 11: Monks Embrace Mighty Wind

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 05.25.2011

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John Tepper Marlin

Brother Joseph functions as the Abbey's environmental conscience.. the wind turbine is only part of an overall effort to reduce energy use and cost through recycling and conservation programs.

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New, Innovative Wind Turbines For Your Home

Treehugger | Matthew McDermott | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though solar panels definitely hog the renewable energy stage when it comes to home installations, a number of new, innovative wind turbines have ente...

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Pickens And Wind Energy: Can It Be Done? What's The Cost?

CNN Money | Steve Hargreaves | Posted 05.25.2011

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T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire oilman, has been hitting the airwaves, pitching a plan to use wind to replace all the natural gas that's used to pro...

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