Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Obama climate change agenda could start Day One
"He should find Jimmy Carter's solar panels, wherever Ronald Reagan threw them, and put them back up on the White House, because they probably still work," said Danny Kennedy, president of San Francisco Bay Area solar installer Sungevity.
Couldn't Clinton/Gore find them?

A Chill Blows Through Wind Power - HispanicBusiness.com
Danish renewable energy consultancy BTM Consultants believes about 18% of the world's turbines are now manufactured in India and China, compared with 67% in Europe.
Letter: Wind turbine factories aren't here in the U.S. - Ann Arbor News Opinion - MLive.com
There have been regular shipments of wind-generating systems coming into the heartland of the U.S. and Canada for a few years now, and the main U.S. beneficiaries have been the port of Duluth, Minn., and trucking companies. These wind turbine components are shipped from Europe through the Great Lakes (and past Detroit) to Duluth on large ships, and then are trucked to wind farms in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, Canada. There are so many large ships carrying the turbines into Duluth that they sometimes have to wait in line to unload.

Siemens and General Electric manufacture wind turbine generating systems in Germany, Spain, Denmark and China - but not in Michigan.

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