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- Technology
Huge Texas Wind Farm's Turbines Will Be Made in China
Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S.
10.31.2009 at 05:35pm - Comment by fiftycalOK, let's be clear. If T. Booone Pickens is involved, it's a SCAM. The wind power farm is a SCAM. Pickens is only in it for the MONEY. If you check, you will find that IF you try and power up witn "wind power" you have to have STANDBY power plants up and running. Because when the wind STOPS, something has to come on line INSTANTLY or you have a brownout. IOW, you will have the reliability of Iraq. Now it may not bother you to have Oprah flicker on and off a few times every show, but BUSINESS won't stand for it. So with "wind power" there IS NO SAVINGS. It's a SCAM. As is the whole globull warming SCAM. That is just to make Algore more MONEY.
- The Environment
Scientists Weigh in on Biofuels vs. Food Debate
The first annual BioMass conference, attended by biofuels researchers, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, and farmers, is underway here at the Minneapolis Convention Center. Prime on the agenda in the opening session this morning was a question lately blaring from headlines, for instance in a story in today's New York Times: can we grow crops for converting into fuel without catastrophically upsetting the world's food supply?
4.17.2008 at 09:15pm - Comment by fiftycalSo, picking up grass cuttings from "infertile" land is going to be 238% MORE efficient than corn. NOT 237%, NOT 239%, 238%. Well, let's see. Corn grows to 8 feet tall and produces a fruit that weighs about a pound each and may have 5-8 per plant. Yield averages about 6.5 TONS per acre. Various grass on unfertilized, unwatered, infertile land might be 2 feet high. What do you think the yield will be? It ain't gonna be 15 TONS! Maybe ONE. And how is this to be harvested? You are talking about YARD CLIPPINGS. It would be more efficient to pick them up with a WHEEL BARROW. Certainly not a harvester. So maybe this whole article is just one big BLOWING SMOKE BS puff piece. DRILL ANWAR! And the coasts. THAT will bring us "energy independence". You can't "conserve" a tank of fuel.
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