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Is Electric Wind Power the Answer?
Wind power generation has fierce opponents and devoted supporters. Are wind turbines noisy? How much power do electric windmills generate? Some wind energy answers.
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McGuinty Easing The Way For New Energy
McGuinty is making it easier for businesses specializing in cleaner energy to set up in Ontario's municipalities by making it harder for their opposition.
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Pickens Plan's Wind Energy Component Hits Snags
The Pickens Plan to establish wind energy as an alternative to non-renewable energy resources such as oil and coal has hit a few snags, including high delivery costs.
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Home Wind Turbines
Advantages and disadvantages of residential wind energy. How to determine available wind, energy savings, cost, size, and reliability of a home wind generator.
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Generating Power from Wind Energy
Electricity generated from wind power makes up a growing portion of the worldwide power generation market.
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Wind Power Used for 2000 Years
Humans have been using wind power for thousands of years to mill grain, pump water, and create electricity.
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Harness Wind Power in 2007
10 Websites that provide information, resources and how-tos about wind power
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Residential Wind Turbines FAQ
Residential wind turbines represent a green and renewable energy technology and a way for the homeowner to lessen dependence on the electrical power grid.
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Stimulus for Small Wind Turbines
Families, farms and small companies use small wind turbines to help control electricity costs and pollution, but the towers are tall and the benefits are limited.
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Wind Energy Researchers Cite Accident Statistics
Research results of wind turbine accidents since the 1970s are used by developers striving to improve their products and also by opponents wishing to stymie development.
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Windpower
Wisconsin pioneers built windmills to pump water and for power to run machines. These windmills were in use until about the 1950s. Today windmills are having a comeback, but now they are multi-million dollar machines providing power for millions of people. Look at the new era of wind farms springing up on the Wisconsin countryside.
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Investing in Wind Energy Gearbox Advancements
The use of wind energy is fast approaching parity with coal and gas energy. However, the gearbox technology needed to get past that hurdle may also be a worthy investment
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Bird Unfriendly Wind Farms
Wind turbines are popping up in many countries - so is opposition to these alternative energy projects that threaten birds.
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The World's Most Attractive Wind Energy Stocks
Though capital expenditure spending cuts affected many industries, wind energy has managed to continue drawing a crowd. As such, wind turbine stocks remain attractive.
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Wind Power
The wind is a constantly renewing source of energy for supplementing or even replacing our dwindling natural resources.
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Wind Power
You may have seen wind turbines dotting the landscape in your area. Find out more about them in this week's article.
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Birds and Windmills
Windmills, especially older ones, in the wrong places can cause many bird deaths. Newer technology and thoughtful location of wind farms can minimize the death toll.
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Green Energy Incentives In Ohio
Ohio is investing heavily in alternative energy like wind and solar power hoping to create jobs in a state hard hit by the national recession and high unemployment.
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Microgeneration: An Overview
Microgeneration is the production of low or zero carbon heat or power by individual households, businesses or communities.
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Investing in Wind Energy Growth Trends
Some investors may feel wind energy is a mere fad that will never really produce investment gains. These investors need to look at the facts, and the projected growth.
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Wind Power Generators
Before buying a wind powered generator it's important to know output, area wind availability, restrictions, disadvantages, and where to buy a reliable generator.
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Potential Growth of Wind Energy
Wind energy could supply up to 20% of world electricity generation. Despite problems, wind power has great potential as an alternative source of energy.
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Alternative Energy Sources
Simple definitions of the main sources of renewable energy including solar heat, the difference between fossil fuel and biomass; and a description of tidal power.
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Economic Stimulus Bill and Energy Tax Credits
Obama's economic stimulus bill altered energy efficiency tax credits benefiting homeowners upgrading windows, installing geothermal heat pumps, solar panels, and more.
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Emergency Generator Basics
When disaster strikes, a backup generator can save the day. Power blackouts, hurricanes, and ice storms! Prepare with a power supply and an automatic transfer switch.
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Energy Tax Credits on Home Improvements
Considering a geothermal heat pump, solar energy system, small wind energy system or fuel cells? This guide will help taxpayers see if they are eligible for a tax credit.
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Green Ideas for RVs at The Rally
The tenth annual 2009 RV Rally in Albuquerque, NM focuses on eco-friendly RVing with two special activities and numerous seminars to help RV go green.
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Hydrogen as an Alternative Energy Source
Hydrogen, a carrier of energy, is not an energy source. With greater availability of hydrogen cars, hydrogen production by renewable energy can combat global warming.
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Nine Wind-Powered Web Hosts
A guide to Web hosting companies that use wind power or wind energy offsets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Residential Green Roof Garden Design
Green roofs are rooftops that are covered with soil and planted with ornamental or vegetable gardens. Most are on commercial real estate, but residential use is growing.
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Increased Use of Renewable Energies
Renewable energies, such as wind, solar and hydro, help curb carbon dioxide emissions. Increased use of these alternative energies bodes well for the environment.
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Power...at what price?
The energy crisis of the future is now raging in California. What can we do to prevent a full scale catastrophe across the US and the world?
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Greenpeace - Globe Saving Plan
Environmental activists are boosting a plan they say is a blueprint to staving off future climate change and therefore averting catastrophe.
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Lewis Windfarm Proposal Rejected
Proposals to build the largest on-shore windfarm in Europe were rejected yesterday, dealing a blow to a government committed to meeting half of electricity needs by 2050.
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Save Money on Home Utility Bills
Learn how to save money on home utility bills and reduce your impact on the environment for the sake of your wallet and the planet alike.
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The Global Electricity Challenge
Worldwide demand for electricity is rising fast. How will this additional electricity be produced?
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Carbon Offsets and the Environment
What are Carbon Offsets and who are the Carbon Offset providers? Consumers can use the voluntary market in Carbon Offsets to lower their carbon footprint.
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Consequences of Global Warming
What climate and other environmental changes loom on the horizon due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, and how will these changes affect earth and life?
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Depression Recipes: Cooking for Less
Recession or depression, the result is the same. People are tightening their belts, looking for cheap and frugal recipes and cookbooks, and other ways to save money.
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Energy Efficient Schools
Schools are being built energy-efficient. There are 770 such buildings across the nation. What makes a building energy-efficient?
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Kingsnorth Climate Camp Protest Kent, UK
A peaceful march took place alongside direct action to protest against high CO2 emissions of planned new coal electricity generation.
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Kirtland’s Warbler
Kirtland's Warbler, Dendroica kirtlandii, has a tiny habitat and almost became extinct. Conservation measures have brought it back in Michigan, USA.
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New Directions for the National Trust?
The biggest charity devoted to preserving Britain's historic buildings and natural landscapes is gearing up to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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Renewable Energy: Wind power
Given the right conditions, wind power can be a viable commercial energy source. Already several wind generator plants around the world are supplying local towns with electricity.
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Surging Interest in Tidal Power
Winds can be erratic. The sun doesn't always shine. Growing bio fuels uses land already in short supply for food production. But tidal power can be timed to the minute
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Sustainable Design for Recreational Homes
Sustainable design meets trailer park chic in Sustain.ca's home on wheels, the miniHome recreational vehicle.
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The Green Collar Economy - Book Review
In "The Green Collar Economy," activist Van Jones calls for a mass movement to deliver us from our ecological and economic crises.
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The Sentier Cathare Long Distance Footpath
The French 'Sentier Cathare' hiking trail runs for two hundred and forty kilometres, from the Mediterranean coast to the Pyrenees foothills.
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The Smart Grid Is Coming
The USA's aging electrical grid is being upgraded to a smart grid. Find out what a smart grid is, and how it benefits the environment, power producers and consumers.
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Vertical Farms
By 2050, nearly 80% of the earth's population will be found in cities. Due to this growth, we could run out of productive farm land and water.
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