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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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World’s Largest Windfarm Gets Approval

October 8, 2007 – 8:53 am

TreeHugger
A new wind farm, 90 square miles large, has been approved for construction off the coast of the UK. If built, it will become the largest offshore wind farm in the world, which should make all UK Tree Huggers proud. Keep reading

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Saving Extra Wind Energy Underground for Later

October 8, 2007 – 7:31 am

TreeHugger
Seemingly taking a page out of carbon sequestration’s playbook, a coalition of local facilities in Iowa are working out a scheme to store surplus wind energy by placing it underground. The idea being to keep it safely locked up when demand is low so it can then be uncorked at a later date when demand [...]

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Michael Jantzen’s Solar Wind Pavilion

July 27, 2007 – 2:55 am

TreeHugger
Michael Jantzen of the Transformation House and the Wind Shaped Pavilion proposes yet another wind and sun powered structure, this time for the California State University at Fullerton.
A vertical axis turbine and four rings of photovoltaics generate electricity that is stored in batteries, or as Jantzen says “Some of the electrical energy gathered by the [...]

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Catching the wind…

July 16, 2007 – 5:18 am

Harnessing wind energy has a long history. In China and Egypt, archeologists have found “windmills” used to grind grain and pump water, dating as far back as 500 BC. Windmills have been in use ever since. But in the early 1970s, when oil embargoes caused acute energy shortages in the United States, harnessing the wind [...]

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