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		<title><![CDATA[Ford turns to wind power]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go Ford!Go Ford!Dunno how they manage it, but it seems Ford really knows how to avoid all of the pitfalls of a recession. They seem to be everywhere now, and even sponsor one of the TWiT podcasts I listen to.Maybe Ford could get some more workby going into the gearbox...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:53:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ford turns to wind power]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=8722]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ford is going to be using wind power. Not to actually power their cars, but to power a car factory in Belgium. by Harry Fuller]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:35:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Blowin' in the wind, and power under the sun]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=7651]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there more wind power in our future?  Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute, says we can cut our greenhouse emissions 80% by 2020, if we use the wind that's just out there for the world to use.  Brown says "Ask what can be done, NOT...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:49:35 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Windmills stir up opposition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's do some mathHarry:How much energy is recoverable, year in, year out, for vertical turbine blades?What percentage of the US' domestic energy usage does that amount to?This is very basic arithmetic.Likewise, when you factor in the energy costs needed to make the lithium ion batteries of the Prius, and assume...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wind energy: recession proof?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13603-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=67748&messageID=1288491&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[UselessDrive-by repost of some non-IT related energy news. I'm watching you - when is a good, important, relevant article coming from you?Unintended consequences?You had a blog recently about the "unintended consequences" of geo-engineering. What about trapping wind energy? Wind is one of the primary erosional forces, along with water. What...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:57:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wind energy: recession proof?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=6502]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[2008 was another record year for increased use of wind energy to generate electricity in the U.S.  For the fourth straight year the U.S. led the planet in adding new wind energy generation capacity. That was before any stimulus plan.  It was certainly boosted  by 2008's rising...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Carbon capture?  Nuc plants?  Not gonna help?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-13603-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66717&messageID=1260508&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Carbon capture?  Nuc plants?  Not gonna help?Somebody isn't doing the mathThree times [i]what[/i]?If the world population plateaus at 10 billion, each of whom uses 10 times the per capita energy that the USA does now, that comes to a total of less than 1% of the world's insolation.Greenhouse...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:55:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Images: Distributing wind power in the neighborhood]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some wind companies are building mid-size turbines for on-site power generation for schools, businesses, or farms. by CNET News.com]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:00:03 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wind dying down...for the nonce]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=3913]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Not surprisingly the once-booming wind industry is feeling the effects of the global economic dive.  Nothing wrong with the world's supply of wind, but there is a shortage of CapEx money and capital of all kinds.  Emerging Energy Research EER concludes there'll be major declines in wind energy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:20:43 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Don't even imagine the oil age is over]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=3645]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new report by the U.S. Interior Department gives great support to those who say, "Drill, baby, drill."  The report shows how little we really know about how much oil is, or isn't, under the oceans within 200 miles of the U.S. mainland.  That would be the Atlantic,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:59:19 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Wind and wildlife: co-existence or conflict?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=2585]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Last October 20 of the nationâ€™s top science-based conservation and environmental groups and wind energy companies formed the American Wind Wildlife Institute AWWI to address concerns of environmental impact from wind projects. The members of the AWWI range from Sierra Club and National Audubon to Vestas and GE.  Full...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:36:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Offshore wind, a new tack]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=2562]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Courtesy: Principle Power.  An American company is working with a utility company in Portugal to build an offshore wind farm.  That's not the news.  The real news is that these turbines will be on floating platforms, not attached to the ocean floor. Principle Power PP...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:15:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Utility-grade electricity storage batteries make wind energy possible on a breeze-less day]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Utility-grade electricity storage batteries make wind energy possible on a breeze-less dayVRB now sold to China for $2MAfter trying for months to find someone to buy it in the West, VRB's receivers managed to make a deal - thoe whole company, patents and all, for $2M to a holding company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:49:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a "guster": Oil town Houston flirts with wind powerMaybe we will come out on top....I was thinking we here in Houston would start to feel the pain of moving from oil. I guess we can remain the energy capital no matter the source.RE: a good place to locateI agree...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:17:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[It's a "guster": Oil town (Houston) flirts with wind power]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1624]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Why focus on development around just one major fuel source, oil, when you can reap the benefits of two?    Steamy Houston is beginning a new love affair with one of the most powerful companies in the wind-power industry, Vestas, the largest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:58:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Utility-grade electricity storage batteries make wind energy possible on a breeze-less day]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1607]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting here staring out at my green front lawn, which only yesterday was covered with a blanket of the pre-Christmas snowfall we received last weekend. The temperature is well into the 50s Fahrenheit, which seems bizarre given the sub-teens readings that made my car tire-pressure system go haywire last Monday....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:40:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Batteries to store wind energy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-11422-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=55845&messageID=1054665&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Batteries to store wind energyWhat a novel idea!!!Batteries can store energy! What a novel idea! Why didn't anybody think of that before! SARCASMUmm, yeah, I think 99% of people you talk to would already know that it's a good idea to store energy in batteries during off-peak hours.Now the question...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:04:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Batteries to store wind energy]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1133]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientific American reports that Xcel Energy, a Minneapolis-based utility company, has started to test a new technology to store wind energy in batteries. The company is currently trying it in a 1,100 megawatts facility of wind turbines in Southern Minnesota. The company started this effort because 'the wind doesn't always...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:56:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's blowin' in the wind?  Alternative energy in China]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1469]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study of the Chinese wind energy market finds the country's growth will likely continue despite the global economic spasms.  EER's report finds China will be #1 in generating electricity from wind by 2011.  As much as the once communist state now embraces a brand of capitalism,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:11:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bats and belfries may be synonymous. But what about bats and wind turbines? Not so much.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/green/?p=1401]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband's favorite holiday, Halloween, is approaching, so this item caught my attention: As part of the Casselman Wind Power Project in Pennsylvania, the Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative (yes, there is such an organization) is testing the impact of wind turbines on local bat colonies. Here's some insight on...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:32:55 -0700</pubDate>
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