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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[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://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[Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Test case: what happens when a government requires renewable energy?....It's pioneers like Colorado that will finally propel us into the 21st century. Great news! Love it when the old ways are trounced by new tech AND soundly at that!"[B]Despite a continuing boom, oil and gas companies here are on the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:45:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Collaborates With IBM to Build Groundbreaking New Solutions]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xcel Energy needed to deliver added shareholder value by leveraging technology to optimize core processes, develop new ones and increase customer responsiveness. Xcel Energy is teaming with IBM on new solutions that improve business processes with partners, help executives plan proactively and raise responsiveness to customers. Utility Innovation projects showed...]]></description>
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