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Wind Power Breaks Records in Spain

April 6, 2008 – 1:55 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
Wind Power Breaks Records in Spain. AFP, March 25, 2008. “Wind power is breaking new records in Spain, accounting for just over 40 percent of all electricity consumed during a brief period last weekend, the country’s wind power association said Tuesday. As heavy winds lashed Spain on Saturday evening wind parks [...]

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Rural Nigeria lights up with solar power

January 1, 2008 – 3:53 am

SciDev.net
Panels used to generate solar power
Michael Simire
28 December 2007
Nigeria has launched a solar power scheme that will eventually light up as many as ten rural communities with no access to the national electrical grid.
A Lagos state government official, who wished to remain anonymous, said construction work had commenced on the respective projects and contractors were [...]

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News: Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity

September 22, 2007 – 2:21 am

Climate Crisis Coalition
News: Sunny Outlook: Can Sunshine Provide All U.S. Electricity? By David Biello, Scientific American, September 19, 2007. “In the often cloudless American Southwest, the sun pours more than eight kilowatt-hours* per square meter of its energy onto the landscape. Vast parabolic mirrors in the heart of California’s Mojave Desert concentrate this solar [...]

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