Results for keyword: wind power
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Would you want to live near a wind farm?
Everybody believes in alternative energy, but very few people want to live next to giant wind turbines.
by Marty Durlin, Mar 12, 2009 -
INNOVATE, Part I
Westerners have a knack for new and innovative thinking, as this special issue of HCN shows.
by Ray Ring, Tom Beal, Emily Underwood, Terray Sylvester, Sarah Gilman, Mar 09, 2009 -
Two weeks in the West
Wilderness bills are coming back to life, especially one that would protect Arizona’s Tumacacori Highlands; a lot of things besides windmills are killing birds.
by Jonathan Thompson, Oct 01, 2007 -
When it comes to subsidies, coal wins
Russ Doty compares the government subsidies given to wind power with those given to coal, and finds that coal is the true welfare king.
by Russ Doty, Sep 24, 2007 -
Wind power will blow your mind
Dennis Hinkamp says that even though wind power – like everything else – is bound to have a downside, it’s the right way for us to go.
by Dennis Hinkamp, Aug 13, 2007 -
The Latest Bounce
Libby, Mont., asbestos victims now eligible for disability; new wind-power farm to come to Colorado; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson petitions to protect his state’s roadless lands
by Jodi Peterson, Jun 12, 2006 -
Lawmakers chop up renewable-energy fund
Congress slashes the Energy Department’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program in favor of directing money toward energy projects in lawmakers’ home districts
by Laura Paskus, Feb 06, 2006 -
Congressional group plans for oil's decline
Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., have formed the Congressional Peak Oil Caucus to discuss preparing for life after "peak oil" – when worldwide oil supplies can no longer meet demand
by Brett Wilkison, Feb 06, 2006 -
Renewable law leaves the gate
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission finally releases rules for implementing Amendment 37, the state’s renewable standards law
by Laura Paskus, Jan 23, 2006 -
Forget idealism
With the demand for renewable energy growing and the costs falling, solar and wind power have moved out of the realm of idealism into that of the marketplace
by Laura Paskus, Dec 12, 2005






