Daily Archives: September 20, 2010

Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 20, 2010

Items of interest: 1-“What’s not to like about windmills?” Winds shift on turbines – Don Surber, Charleston (WV) Daily Mail 2-This is gonna leave a mark! – “And that is what grid scale wind in Maine is about – profit. … Continue reading

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Heck, might as well shut the wind turbine down anyway, “It’s a time when we are not generating a whole lot of electricity to begin with!”

A recent National Geographic article, “Hope for Stemming Wind Energy’s Toll on Bats” subtitled “The Great Energy Challenge,” begins with this, “Windmills—clean, quiet, simple and endlessly renewable—may be the ultimate icons of green energy. But after sundown, their whirling blades … Continue reading

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