Chinese Wind Power Turns On Western Designers & Suppliers (Treehugger) Apparently, wind power is one of the few technology growth areas where China has yet to gain significant market share. And, it looks as if there still plenty of time for Western businesses to crank out more Chinese sales.
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Wind power for Goa (Herald Publications) "Sometime back our Goa Government had plans to introduce Coal Plant for Electricity due to the shortage of enough power. I myself objected for such a Plant would be not just a waste of our money but environmentally unsafe and disaster for our Tourism Industry. The problem with Coal Plant is that we will be exposed for the acid rain and respiratory ailments."
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Cuts 'funding' wind turbine drive (BBC News) A £10m drive to add wind turbines to public sites and to promote renewable energy is being funded by cuts to other green projects, it has been claimed.
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Wind power subject of MSU seminar (Cadillac News) Michigan State University Extension is hosting an informational meeting on the economics and future of wind power Oct. 19 at the Kettunen Center in Tustin.
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London 2012 Olympic Parkto be Powered by Wind Turbine (AZoBuild) The turbine - to be located at Eton Manor in the North of the Olympic Park site in East London - will play a key role in delivering renewable energy to the Olympic Park and be a visible symbol of London 2012's commitment to deliver its goal of staging the most sustainable ever Olympic Games and Paralympic Games.
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Wind power isn't reliable enough to satisfy electricity needs (Asbury Park Press) The record-breaking demand for electricity this summer taxed California's razor-thin, peak-load electrical generating capacity. Power failures were narrowly averted when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger ordered state agencies to reduce electricity consumption by 25 percent and many large industries and businesses agreed to voluntarily shut down.
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Scotland Starts Work on 140-Turbine Onshore Windfarm (RenewableEnergyAccess.com) The onshore windfarm - with its planned 140 wind turbines - is part of the country's aggressive goal to have 18 percent of electricity generated in Scotland come from renewable sources by 2010 and 40 percent by 2020.
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Winds of Change: A Message In a Building (Washington Post) Washington Square, which contains a million square feet of office and retail space at 1050 Connecticut Ave. NW, is purchasing wind power to meet 100 percent of the building's energy needs.
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