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Wind Power—Friends and Foes
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Lewis Tagliaferre
| October 2005
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Up to 2,500 megawatts (mw) of wind energy capacity are scheduled to come online in the United States this year, bringing new power to the equivalent of 700,000 homes and injecting more than $3 billion of investment into the power generation sector. Wind power has truly become a reality.

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Wind Works—–But Not in Florida
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Lewis Tagliaferre
| June 2005
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  • Green Building

Coal is too dirty. Uranium is too dangerous. Gas is too expensive. Oil is too political. Solar is too sporadic. Hydro-dams upset the fish habitat.

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Wind Generation—Trends and Issues
by
Lewis Tagliaferre
| November 2004
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  • Systems

In 1993, government researchers concluded that a group of 12 states in the midsection of the country have enough wind energy resources to generate nearly four times the amount of electricity consumed nationwide in 1990.

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Alternative Power Source Found Blowing in the Wind
by
Brenda Silva
| June 2003
| under
  • Green Building

Due in great part to its low cost and high availability, wind energy has emerged as the fastest-growing energy source during the last decade, with global sales of wind turbines expected to reach more than $10 billion by 2008.

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Wind Sails Ahead as Renewable Power Consumption Declines
by
Rick Laezman
| December 2002
| under
  • Green Building

By Rick Laezman Renewable energy sources have been making great strides toward a bigger share of the American energy market in recent years. However, 2001 was a disappointing year.

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