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Archives: wind energy
Top 6 Wind Energy stories Today: Cost down 60% since 2009
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. This press release from Windpower Engineering notes that in 2015: "The German electricity system has reached a new milestone, generating 85.4 billion…
Sell that Coal Stock: The future belongs to Wind and Solar, COP21 or No
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - - Historically, the transition from one energy system to another, as from wood to coal or coal to oil, has proven an enormously…
Bernie Sanders wants Ban new Drilling Offshore, on Fed. Land
John Iadarola | (The Young Turks) | - - "Bernie Sanders is taking a strong stand against climate change. He proposed an aggressive plan to curb the United States consumption of fossil…
Holland’s Wind-Driven trains & 4 other Hopeful Green Energy Stories for Today
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - 1. In three years, all Dutch electric trains will be powered by wind turbines, either turbines in the Netherlands itself or in nearby…
Top 5 Green Energy Breakthroughs Today
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - - Switching to green energy sources like wind and solar is necessary to save the planet from increased concentrations of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide,…
Is Wind Energy taking over the Planet and Saving it?
By Nicole Jewell | (Fix.com) | - - Renewable energy has come a long way in a relatively short time. But there are still many questions about the cost effectiveness and feasibility…
Offshore Wind in Europe Surges, Powers 7 mn. Households
The Tree | - - Europe’s offshore wind industry is set for a record 12 months, as new analysis from the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) reveals a bumper start to the…
If Germany can get 27% of its Energy from Wind/Solar, why can’t US?
Germany Trade & Invest | (Short Video Documentary) | - - "Germany Trade & Invest presents its short film about Germany’s Renewable Energy Revolution, the so called Energiewende (energy transition). Voices from…
Europe to reach 20% Renewable Energy Goal by 2020 & You’ll Never Guess How
Euractiv | - - [ N.B. 13% of US electricity is from renewables, including hydro; almost no transportation is powered by renewables.] While most EU member countries are on track to meet…
Wind Power rapidly bringing Clean Electricity to masses in Global South
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Google is in talks to invest in Kenya's enormous Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, which will cost $700 million. The project will increase…
How each State in the Union can have 100% Green Energy by 2050: The Stanford Plan
By Bjorn Carey | ( Stanford News Service) | - -
Green Energy Surging and you’ll never Guess Why
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | -- The adoption of wind and solar for electricity generation around the world is happening at a growing pace, and the likelihood is that it…
Warren Buffett betting big on Wind Energy in Nebraska, & other Planet-Saving News
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Wind power is on a roll in the US despite a fickle Congress and the machinations of Big Coal and Big Gas to keep all…
Anger Translation: Why Obama was Ranting against GOP Climate Policy at Press Dinner
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - The Comedy Central show, Key and Peele, made famous a bit by Keegan-Michael Key on Obama called the "Luther, the anger translator," which plays on…
China’s Big Clean-Up: Asia’s Hope
By Mark L. Clifford | (Author of The Greening of Asia: The Business Case for Solving Asia's Environmental Emergency) - Asia sometimes feels like one big environmental emergency. Breathing Beijing's air on…
Clean Disruption: Why Conventional Energy and Transportation will be Obsolete by 2030
Tony Seba | "Tony Seba gives the keynote address at the NZ SmartGrid Forum at the Te Papa museum in Wellington, New Zealand, March 31, 2014. The keynote is titled “Clean Disruption:…
Floating wind turbine in the sky Can Power whole Villages
Dan Simmons | (BBC Click) - "The floating wind turbine that could help provide power to remote communities. The helium-filled device, known as The Bat, can adjust its height to take advantage…
Turning Point: 2015, the Year the World turned to Renewables and saved itself
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | - Don’t hold your breath, but future historians may look back on 2015 as the year that the renewable energy ascendancy began, the moment…