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More Recycled Wind
Google has just signed on to the push for a "smart grid" which is a very large step in the right direction to help out on our electrical energy concerns.
Obama also has Dan Kammen from U.Cal-Berkeley as one of his energy advisors. Kammen is one of the brightest stars in the energy field, especially renewables. Frontline used him a lot in their recent reporting on global warming. He's also an advisor to Gov. Schwartzenegger. Kammen evidently first met Obama on a Harvard basketball court when they were students.
I just got back from a trip out to little Kearney, NE to attend a two-day conference on wind energy in Nebraska. There were about 450 attendees at the conference. Just about the limit of what that little convention center could handle.
(Speaking of packed wind conventions, they had to change the venue of annual AWEA conference from the Twin Cities to Chicago's McCormick Place because of the anticipated size of the convention. Last time in Houston, Windpower 2007 had something like 13,000 attendees. My first AWEA conference was in Amarillo in 1978 and we had maybe 200 attending.)
Kearney is near the middle of the 3rd District of Nebraska which is about 70% registered Republican. The section on wind rights leasing was packed.
The times they are seriously changing.
Obama also has Dan Kammen from U.Cal-Berkeley as one of his energy advisors. Kammen is one of the brightest stars in the energy field, especially renewables. Frontline used him a lot in their recent reporting on global warming. He's also an advisor to Gov. Schwartzenegger. Kammen evidently first met Obama on a Harvard basketball court when they were students.
I just got back from a trip out to little Kearney, NE to attend a two-day conference on wind energy in Nebraska. There were about 450 attendees at the conference. Just about the limit of what that little convention center could handle.
(Speaking of packed wind conventions, they had to change the venue of annual AWEA conference from the Twin Cities to Chicago's McCormick Place because of the anticipated size of the convention. Last time in Houston, Windpower 2007 had something like 13,000 attendees. My first AWEA conference was in Amarillo in 1978 and we had maybe 200 attending.)
Kearney is near the middle of the 3rd District of Nebraska which is about 70% registered Republican. The section on wind rights leasing was packed.
The times they are seriously changing.