With a confluence of wind energy events and rising energy prices, now is a great time to get the word out about wind energy. The Wind Industry
Next week is the annual industry confab at AWEA’s WINDPOWER conference.
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I recently returned from a quick trip to Beijing – and by quick I mean that I spent almost as much time traveling to and from China as I actually spent on the ground.
Remembering Fall 2010Late last fall at the AWEA Fall Symposium, I had the fortune to hear former Secretary of State General Colin Powell’s plenary address. He was terrific — insightful, witty and articulate.
Last week I landed at Washington National in D. C. on one of the windiest days the city could remember. At the airport, 40 mph winds jounced and bounced our modest-sized jet from Burlington. Quite fitting, I thought for the wind energy lobby day on Capitol Hill.
This is a political battle which may end up in federal court, but in terms of the alternatives presented below, there has been one startling change in the Vermont context — strong public resistance to the construction of wind farms.
Competition or cooperation with China will seem like an odd question to many in the U. S. wind industry. Since my last blog post on China, you may have noted the Global Wind Energy Council announcement that China passed the USA for installed wind capacity:
China now has 42.
As the mother of one young child and another on the way, I’ve been following the debate about childhood vaccination and autism quite closely. Earlier this month we learned that the work of Andrew Wakefield, the British researcher who posited a link between autism and childhood vaccination, was fraudulent.