Tag: Wind
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Conservation Groups to Sue Over Wind Turbine Project in Key Bird Migration Corridor
The Ohio National Guard facility at Camp Perry, near Port Clinton in northern Ohio, is the focus of possible legal action by American Bird Conservancy (ABC), a leading national bird conservation organization, and Ohio’s Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), which yesterday announced the intention to sue the Ohio National Guard in connection with violations of…
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Stanford Professor on Letterman: Powering Entire World on Renewable Energy No Problem
A Stanford University professor used a late-night television appearance earlier this month to do more than just advocate renewable energy. Mark Jacobson suggested that the entire world could easily live off renewable energy. “There’s enough wind to power the entire world, for all purposes, around seven times over,” the professor of civil and environmental engineering…
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Reports Unveil Roadmap to Clean Energy Future for Washington State
With hydropower accounting for 69 percent of generating capacity, Washington State has one of the nation’s cleanest energy profiles. Still, 14 percent of the state’s grid is powered by coal and that portion accounts for 81 percent of the state’s climate pollution from electricity. The majority of the electricity comes from a coal plant in Colsrip,…
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Sustainable HARVEST HOME Helps to Heal Body and Spirit of Wounded Warrior
The first city-wide collegiate team to be formed in Washington, D.C. and compete in the Solar Decathlon is Team Capitol DC, made up of students and faculty mentors from Catholic University, American University, and George Washington University. Their entry is HARVEST HOME, taking its name from its harvesting of natural resources, and is designed to…