Sunday, December 28th, 2008
American Wind Projects
The U.S. wind industry is on its way to charting another record-shattering year of
growth. That capacity will generate over 60 billion kWh of electricity in 2009,
enough to serve over 5.5 million American homes and eliminating the burning of
* 30.4 million short tons of coal (enough to fill two 1,000-mile-long coal trains),
* 91 million barrels of oil per year, or
* 560 Bcf of natural gas (about 9% of the natural gas used for electricity generation)
Hull, Massachusetts – Offshore Wind Turbines
This resort town, population 11,000, plans to moor four 260-foot-tall turbines a (more…)
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
A Message from Michael
Love him or hate him, he makes sense…
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Friends,
They could have given the loan on the condition that the automakers start building
only cars and mass transit that reduce our dependency on oil.
They could have given the loan on the condition that the automakers build cars that
reduce global warming.
They could have given the loan on the condition that the automakers withdraw their
many lawsuits against state governments in their attempts to not comply with our (more…)
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