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High-altitude wind machines could power NYC - CNN.comThe wind blowing through the streets of Manhattan couldn't power the city, but wind machines placed thousands of feet above the city theoretically could. The first rigorous, worldwide study of high-altitude wind power estimates that there is enough wind energy at altitudes of about 1,600 to ...
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Army aims to reduce greenhouse gases, 'carbon bootprint'At Fort Carson, Colo., the Army partnered with a local energy provider to do an enhanced-use lease. The energy provider built a photovoltaic solar array on top of a closed landfill. That site now provides energy to some 540 homes. The effort is part of an Army-wide effort to become more energy ...
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Energy versus Water: Solving Both Crises Together: Scientific AmericanWater is needed to generate energy. Energy is needed to deliver water. Both resources are limiting the other—and both may be running short. Is there a way out? In June the state of Florida made an unusual announcement: it would sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the corps’s plan to ...
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Ocean-power visionaries make new push to produce electricity - International Herald TribuneThe Scottish company Pelamis Wave Power plans to turn on a small wave-energy farm - the world's first - off the coast of Portugal by year's end, after fixing the broken moorings. Finavera Renewables, a Canadian company that recently salvaged its sunken, $2.5 million Oregon wave-power machine, ...
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NYC Successfully Installs Tidal-Power Turbine in East RiverAfter two failed attempts, New York City has installed a new-and-improved aluminum alloy turbine in the East River, the only of its kind in the United States.
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Demand response - how to get more wind energy onto the gridI read a fascinating article in the New York Times yesterday about how the electricity grid in New York can’t always cope with the amount of electricity being produced by the Maple Ridge wind farm and so from time to time the wind farm has to shut down production! This problem is not unique to ...
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U.S. wind power strangled by antiquated power gridWhen the builders of the Maple Ridge Wind Farm spent $320 million to erect nearly 200 windmills in upstate New York, the idea was to get paid for producing electricity. But at times, regional electric lines have been so congested that Maple Ridge has been forced to shut down even with a brisk ...
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Bloomberg Offers Windmill Power Plan - NYTimes.comIn a plan that would drastically remake New York City’s skyline and shores, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy.
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Bloomberg Offers Windmill Power PlanIn a plan that would drastically remake New York City’s skyline and shores, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city’s bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy.
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Giant Retailers Look to Sun for Energy Savings - NYTimes.comRetailers are typically obsessed with what to put under their roofs, not on them. Yet the nation’s biggest store chains are coming to see their immense, flat roofs as an untapped resource.Skip to next paragraphEnlarge This ImageSuzanne DeChillo/The New York TimesA Whole Foods store in New Jersey ...
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