Friday, September 30, 2011

Artificial Leaf Closer to Reality. Humans Today Consume 15 trill watts of power, 85% from fossil fuels.

such as oil, coal, and natural gas. That massive fossil fuel consumption produces some nasty side effects, including climate change, acidified oceans, and oil spills.

These problems are likely to grow far worse in coming years, as worldwide energy use is expected to at least double by 2050.

Renewable power sources, such as solar photovoltaics and wind turbines, aim to fill this demand, and they are making steady progress at providing electricity at ever cheaper costs. But electricity has a key drawback as an energy carrier. It’s difficult to store in large quantities, which means it can’t be used for most heavy industry and transportation applications, such as flying planes or driving heavy trucks. So researchers have long sought to use the energy in sunlight to generate energy-rich chemical fuels, such as hydrogen gas, methane, and gasoline, that can be burned anytime anywhere

Grand brainwashi­ng of oil coal atom military war standing industries­. Trying to kill off disruptive element new technologies.

!! Every 40 minutes, enough solar energy hits the USA to cover its energy needs for 1 year !!
http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,33575328001_1916895,00.html

!! In 6 hours, deserts receive more solar energy than humankind consumes in 1 year !!
http://des­ertec.org

!! Windpower Could Provide 40 Times Earth's Power Needs !!

If that area on picture, size of Austria, was covered in solar thermal power plants, it would produce enough electricity to meet WORLD demand ... hard to believe, but that's what exactly it is.

Smaller red square area covered with soalr power plants would satisfy electricity needs of Europe, the smallest one would cover Germany's energy demand...

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-43450-9.html#backToArticle=630699

via friendfeed.com

http://www.popsci.com/environment/article/2009-07/more-windpower-previously-t...
http://fri­endfeed.co­m/solarthe­rmal
http://preventdisease.com/home/tips102.shtml

NATO provoking another conflict in Balkans - Russia's Rogozin

It's another mistake that NATO is making by provoking another conflict in the Balkans,” Dmitry Rogozin said.
via rt.com

“It seems my NATO colleagues don't have a clue what the consequences of their involvement in the conflict could be,” Dmitry Rogozin said.

“Instead of taking a neutral position in accordance with the UN Security Council resolution, they took the side of Kosovo-Albania. Basically, NATO is blocking the only road of life between the Kosovan Serbs and Serbia.

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wars are good business, very profitable to ruling oligarchs, especially to us war machine military industrial complex

US extreme capitalism a problem for the world, inhuman at its core. - Ahmadinejad

via rt.com

Every popular uprising around the world against US-supported dictatorships is actually fueled by the
>>> “rejection of the extreme capitalist system which is inhuman at its core,” the Iranian president genuinely believes.

>>remark:
us tv, capitalist videogames a christian cult of death - celebration of violence, death, killing, destruction.

desensitization of people, preparation for war and mayhem.

violence as an entertainment.
killing as an entertainment.

war is a state terror.

NYC Transit Union Joins Occupy Wall Street #occupywallstreet

The Transit Workers Union Local 100's executive committee, which oversees the organization of subway and bus workers, voted unanimously Wednesday night to support the protesters. The union claims 38,000 members.

"Labor is up against the wall and they're begging us to help them," said DiSalvo, a retired professor at Baruch College in her late 60s who has emerged as a driving force in the effort to link up labor and the protests.

Recent anti-labor actions like Scott Walker's in Wisconsin "really shocked the unions and moved them into militant action," DiSalvo said, and the inflammatory video of a NYPD deputy inspector pepper-spraying several protesters on Saturday also generated union sympathy.

Watch Live #OccupyChicago #OccupyLA - Protests Spread #OccupyTogether #OccupyAmerica #OccupyWallStreet

Watch Live #OccupyChicago #OccupyLA – Who Will Be Next? #OccupyTogether #OccupyAmerica

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Watch Live Video Streams of the Occupy Wall Street Protests which have spread to several cities nationwide, with encampments now set up and gaining inertia in Chicago and Los Angeles.

Earlier Russia today reported on the protests spreading to Chicago, LA and nationwide.

Here are the live video streams.

Occupy Wall Street

OccupyLA Live :

OccupyChicago Live :

To organize and plan protests across the nation the site http://occupytogether.org/ has been set up.

A mini documentary published on the Occupy Chicago website.

Occupy Chicago
http://occupychi.org/
Want to know what to do if you can’t make it to Chicago? Get the word out. Tell friends, family, anyone who will listen that we will no longer stand the greed of corporations. Let your state rep know that this policy of the pursuit of the almighty profit over people will no longer be tolerated. Write your state rep.

Here is an earlier video from Occupy Chicago.

Occupy Chicago Protests Protests in Chicago have set up near the federal reserve building in Chicago and have been there for at least two days now.

The site http://occupychi.org/ has been set up for the Chicago protests with updates being tracked on twitter using the #OccupyChicago hash tag, with the Twitter account @OccupyChicago set up to send out the latest updates

The Chicago protests appear to be less organized than the NYC and LA protests. Namely, the protestors haven’t decided were to camp out and on site electricity need to keep electronics powered longer than the life of their batteries.

Once those two goals are accomplished we should see a live stream out of Chicago. Regardless, protestors say the Chicago crowd continues to grow.

 

The cops told us we were fine as long as we left half the sidewalk for pedestrians. They just blocked half. Less space

The cops told us we were fine as long as we left half the sidewalk for pedestrians. They just blocked half. Less space

We Stand For The People, Stand With Us

We Stand For The People, Stand With Us

People joining us from the street.

People joining us from the street.

Marching in the rain.

Marching in the rain.

 

Marching down Jackson ave to Michigan Ave.

Marching down Jackson ave to Michigan Ave.

Crowd gets bigger and bigger every single day. General assembly now.

Crowd gets bigger and bigger every single day. General assembly now.

Protestors At Occupy Chicago

Protestors At Occupy Chicago

 
 

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Thursday, September 29, 2011

$16 trillion Change. Petition for immediate indictment or resignation of Barack Hussein Obama for Treason


So good, so profitable to run a bank, a company, a couintry into debt and to the ground. If you are big enough not to fail - having powerful friends.

You gonna get trillions of dollars of public money bailout gift. And public will become jobless, homeless, poor, doctorless.

The Federal Reserve has doled out more than $16 trillion since Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th and current president of the United States of America.

This figure is 10 times higher than what the U.S. Congress authorized and Bush ($700 billion) and Obama ( $787 billion) signed off on.

The Federal Reserve was only authorized by Congress to use $1.487 trillion in federal tax dollars in bailouts.

That means the the Federal Reserve embezzled another $14.5 trillion - under the leadership of Mr Obama.

When Obama became president on January 20, 2009 the national debt was $10.2 trillion.

Today the national debt is equal to the amount of money the privately owned Federal Reserve banks have embezzled from the U.S. people - $14.5 trillion.

In just 2 years Obama has added $4 trillion to the national debt.
On August 2, 2011 Mr Obama added another $2.4 trillion to the national debt.

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund Burke

U.S. / NATO Reason of Invasion: 144 tons gold heist of Libya. And, yes, Oil. Lots of it.

via presscore.ca

U.S. forces were sent to attack Libya on 3/19/11 to control the country’s vast oil (black gold) resources and to take its 144 tons of gold bullion.

Months before Obama unilaterally ordered U.S. and NATO forces to attack Libya, hundreds of British, American and French Special Forces were already on the ground in Libya training and commanding the CIA / MOSSAD recruited foreign mercenary army.

Today the U.S., France, the UK, Canada and other NATO war criminals are pouring into Libya to steal the Libyan people’s gold.

U.S. and British troops are already on the ground (in violation of the UN Resolution 1973) to extract the gold bullion.

It is the stolen Libyan gold that Barack Obama is offering the European Union.

The bankrupt United States is offering to bailout the bankrupt European Union with stolen Libyan gold.

Under the guise of “protecting civilians,” the United States led NATO into Libya and is now attempting to assassinate the Libyan leader. Libya just so happens to be the largest oil producer in Africa.

30,000 troops from the 1st Calvary Division (heavy armor) and III Corps at Ft. Hood are being readied for deployment to Libya by October.

Ike’s Grandson Reissues Famous Military-Industrial Complex

Pentagon gets more than half of all taxes collected from the American people and spends more for war than all our 50 governors spend to run their states

Ike slashed military spending 27% during his eight years in office

As for “human betterment,” that phrase can hardly describe the 1-million innocent victims killed by USA in Iraq, the millions of wounded, the millions forced to flee their homes and/or country.

Super Sun Blast Fears Put Russian Nuke Plants In Lockdown. Massive blackouts or Spontaneous Nuclear Explosions.

“emergency notices” have gone out to all of Russia’s nuclear power plants warning them that a potential “blast” from our Sun could cause “massive power blackouts” and could even result in “spontaneous atomic explosions.”

This FAAE report further warns that the blackout that occurred in Chile due to yesterday’s solar blast was forewarned about by a similar event that occurred earlier this month in the United States after their Southern California and Arizona regions were hit by a massive power blackout on 8 September.

Even more concerning to the FAAE about these solar blasts were their being connected by Russian atomic scientists to the nuclear explosion at a nuclear-waste facility in southern France that occurred on 12 September and a Michigan nuclear plant “cooling failure” that occurred on 16 September, both of which were quickly followed by at least six more massive solar blasts occurring in less than 24 hours from 18 September until 19 September.

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There also was Korea wide national grid power failure on Sept 15, 2011

Wrist Watch Radiation Monitor Alarm: Prague playground sealed off over raised radiation

via praguemonitor.com

his wrist watch, with a radiation measurement device, had started peeping.

He said he then went home for further instruments that confirmed the increased values.

The firefighters sent chemical experts to the place, they, too, had measured the increased values of radiation.

"They measured the values five times over the standard,"

Adamcova said the source of the threat had not been found out, but it was probably under the ground surface.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Anti War Protesters Try To Arrest War Criminal Donald Rumsfeld In Boston MA. 911 is controlled demolition.

Media_httpwwwfreedivi_efizw

911 is proven to be controlled demolition, therefore inside false flag operation.

Rumsfeld on 2001: Pentagon missing $2.3 trillions

wars serial war crimes great profits

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

6 Reasons To Make Love, aka Have Sex, Everyday

via preventdisease.com

exercise, look younger, pain relief, men prostate protection, erectile dysfunction, stress relief

OCTOBER2011.org COALITION TO OCCUPY FREEDOM PLAZA IN WASHINGTON, DC BEGINNING OCT 6th 2011

DC Occupation Marks the 11th Year of Afghan War, Austerity Budgets and Builds on
Arab Spring, European Summer, Madison and Occupation of Wall Street

The People’s Uprisings seen around the world and in the United States come to Washington, DC’s Freedom Plaza beginning on Thursday, October 6 when thousands will converge to begin a prolonged people's occupation of Freedom Plaza.  The October2011 Movement involves thousands of people and 150 organizations who have already signed. The DC occupation comes at a pivotal time: the beginning of the 11th year of war in Afghanistan and a new federal fiscal year that promises austerity of everything except weapons and war.

The Freedom Plaza occupation occurs as activists in New York are occupying Wall Street and follows major protests across the Midwest against austerity budgets, the environmental protest of the Tar Sands Pipeline where more than 1,200 were arrested and protests throughout the United States on a wide range of issues.

The October2011 Movement demands that the government represent the people, not just the top 1%. The pledge signed on by thousands calls for using our resources on human needs and environmental protection, not for war and exploitation. October2011.org stands with super majorities of Americans on seven key issues:

  • Tax the rich and corporations
  • End the wars, bring the troops home, cut military spending
  • Protect the social safety net, strengthen Social Security and improved Medicare for all
  • End corporate welfare for oil companies and other big business interests
  • Transition to a clean energy economy, reverse environmental degradation
  • Protect worker rights including collective bargaining, create jobs and raise wages
  • Get money out of politics

Among those signing the pledge and participating in the action are Ann Wright, Baldemar Velasquez, Chris Hedges, Coleen Rowley, Cornel West, Cynthia McKinney, Ray McGovern, Sibel Edmonds and Ted Rall.

via warisacrime.org

people now getting their trillio$ dollars bailout.

NESARA:
N.E.S.A.R.A. reformation includes, but is not limited to:

Debt-forgiveness (zero-out) on all Credit Card, Auto, Personal, Educational, and Mortgage Loan Debt as a remedy for years of Bank Frauds.

Creates a U.S. Treasury Bank System; Absorbs the Federal Reserve; Issues new precious metals backed currency. Permanently eliminates Inflation.

Abolishes the IRS. Tax Collections. Creates a Sales Tax Revenue on non-essential new items only to fund legit government operations.

Restores Constitutional Law; Retrains public servants to uphold Constitutional Law, including law enforcement, the courts and the remaining government agencies.

Websites:

http://www.earthsgoldenage.com

Fukushima Desolation Worst Since Nagasaki as Residents Flee

Media_httpwwwbloomber_xvxjg

nuclear crisis that left almost 20,000 people dead or missing may cost 17 trillion yen ($223 billion),

On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl reactor hurled 180 metric tons of nuclear fuel into the atmosphere, creating the world’s first exclusion zone of 30 kilometers around a nuclear plant.

A quarter of a century later, the zone is still classed as uninhabitable. About 300 residents have returned despite government restrictions.

Radiation risks in the Fukushima 20 kilometer zone forced the evacuation of about 8 percent, or 160,000, of some 2 million people who live in Fukushima.

no-go zone in Fukushima will cover 132 square kilometers, surrounded by a permanent monitoring area of 264 square kilometers, assuming Japan follows the criteria set by the Soviet Union in 1986.

In the case of Chernobyl, the two zones cover a land mass 25 times greater

Monday, September 26, 2011

Another take: Underground Secret Tunnel Bunker Cities Nuclear Explosions. Tunnels Shut off. Denver airport.

Media_httpdancingczar_yeegj

Were the recent earthquakes in Washington D.C. the result of the U.S. government or other sources creating a nuclear explosion?
previous article : http://dancingczars.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/2011/09/23/tunnels-to-at-least-13-underground-bases-being-sealed-off/

http://beforeitsnews.com/story/1007/616/Washington_Quake_Was_Nuclear_Explosio...

> well how about Colorado "earthquake"

Proof Virginia Earthquake Was Caused By Nuclear Explosion:
Source US Geological Survey August 31, 2011- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/se/083111a/us/index.html

General Maslov states in his report, though, his concern over this drill is “heightened” due to last months nuclear attack on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) branch of the intercontinental military tunnel complex between Washington D.C. and Denver, and which we reported on in our 24 August report Russia Reports Nuclear Explosions Hit Vast US Military Tunnel Network.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1514.htm

NUCLEAR STRIKES AGAINST UNDERGROUND BASES

Recently, these sources informed him that the earthquakes that occurred in Colorado and the Washington DC area, surrounding August 22nd and 23rd, were, in fact, apparently nuclear strikes against underground military facilities.

[These underground bases] have been built by the US government, ostensibly since the early 1960s, at the cost of trillions of dollars of undocumented taxpayer money that is going into these “black projects.”

U.S. To Hand Over Iraq Bases, Equipment Worth Billions. Either destroy in fight, or give away. Doesnt matter. War profits go up.

With just over three months until the last U.S. troops are currently due to leave Iraq, the Department of Defense is engaged in a mad dash to give away things that cost U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars to buy and build.

crazy war? or a genocide? or, maybe both. all wars are crazy. and a crime.

There were 505 U.S. military bases and outposts in Iraq at the height of operations,
Construction costs exceeded $2.4 billion,

The giveaways include enormous, elaborate military bases and vast amounts of military equipment that will be turned over to the Iraqis, mostly just to save the expense of bringing it home.

THE U.S. BASES

The most colossal relics of the U.S. invasion of Iraq will be the outsize military bases the Bush administration began erecting not long after the invasion, under the never explicitly stated assumption that Iraq would become the long-term staging area for U.S. forces in the region.

The biggest push came in 2005, with over $1.2 billion in base-building contracts signed in that fiscal year alone,

Most of the $2.4 billion was spent building about a dozen huge outposts that, in addition to containing air strips and massive fortifications also have all the comforts of home. The Al-Asad Airfield in Anbar province, for example, covers 25 square miles -- about the size of Boulder, Colo. -- and is known as "Camp Cupcake" due to its amenities.

ITS ALL STEALING FROM US BUDGET, FROM PEOPLE ANYWAYS.
MONEY TO WAR, TO CONQUEST, TO BLOW IT IN FOREIGN LAND ON / ANYTHING. DOESNT MATTER.

REPUBLICAN ROBBER BARONS WAR OIL COMPLEX CORRUPTED OLIGARCH RULING ELITE.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Petitions | The www.WhiteHouse.gov. Sign Petitions, participate in Decisions. YOUR VOTE COUNTS.

We the People

Create and Sign Petitions Now

We the People

This Whitehouse petiton initiative could be a first step towards The Internet Government of People.

Frequent Internet referenda to single issues.

Internet voting, elections.

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America

undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3010

Rex84 US regime ready for martial law. Concentration camps ready.

undisclosed number of concentration camps were set in operation throughout the United States, for internment of dissidents and others potentially harmful to the state.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3010

Friday, September 23, 2011

Particles Faster than Light Found. Einstein Fundamental Laws of Universe Undermined. Universal Revolution.

An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light -- a finding that could overturn one of Einstein's long-accepted fundamental laws of the universe

Revolution finding undermines he laws od how everything workd.

discovery would undermine Albert Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity, which says that the speed of light is a "cosmic constant" and that nothing in the universe can travel faster.

That assertion, which has withstood over a century of testing, is one of the key elements of the so-called Standard Model of physics, which attempts to describe the way the universe and everything in it works.

The totally unexpected finding emerged from research by a physicists working on an experiment dubbed OPERA run jointly by the CERN particle research center near Geneva and the Gran Sasso Laboratory in central Italy.

Stingray cellphone tracking device designed to locate mobile phone even when not being used to make a call.

Nov. 8, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether or not police need a warrant before secretly installing a GPS device on a suspect's car and tracking him for an extended period.

In both the Senate and House, new bills would require a warrant before tracking a cellphone's location.

Stingray works by mimicking a cellphone tower, getting a phone to connect to it and measuring signals from the phone.
It lets the stingray operator "ping," or send a signal to, a phone and locate it as long as it is powered on

U.S. armed forces also use stingrays or similar devices, according to public contract notices. Local law enforcement in Minnesota, Arizona, Miami and Durham, N.C., also either possess the devices or have considered buying them, according to interviews and published requests for funding.

The sheriff's department in Maricopa County, Ariz., uses the equipment "about on a monthly basis,"

Experts say lawmakers and the courts haven't yet settled under what circumstances locating a person or device constitutes a search requiring a warrant.
Tracking people when they are home is particularly sensitive because the Fourth Amendment specifies that people have a right to be secure against unreasonable searches in their "houses."

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Current wind technology could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year. 3m GWh / y of electricity currently consumed in US.

windmap

The amount of wind power that theoretically could be generated in the United States tripled in the newest assessment of the nation’s wind resources.

Current wind technology deployed in nonenvironmentally protected areas could generate 37,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to the new analysis conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and consulting firm AWS Truewind. The last comprehensive estimate came out in 1993, when Pacific Northwest National Laboratory pegged the wind energy potential of the United States at 10,777,000 gigawatt-hours.

Both numbers are greater than the 3,000,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity currently consumed by Americans each year. Wind turbines generated just 52,000 gigawatt-hours in 2008, the last year for which annual statistics are available.

Though new and better data was used to create the assessment, the big jump in potential generation reflects technological change in wind machines more than fundamental new knowledge about our nation’s windscape.

Wind speed generally increases with height, and most wind turbines are taller than they used to be, standing at  about 250 feet (80 meters) instead of 165 feet (50 meters). Turbines are now larger, more powerful and better than the old designs that were used to calculate previous estimates.

“Now we can develop areas that in [previous decades] wouldn’t have been deemed developable,” said Michael Brower, chief technology offier with AWS Truewind, which carried out the assessment. “It’s like oil reserves. They tend to go up not because there is more oil in the ground but because the technology for accessing the oil gets better.”

The new maps, above, are useful for would-be wind-farm developers who need to find promising sites on which to place their turbines. They want locations with high wind speeds, access to transmission lines, cheap land and a host of other smaller logistical concerns. If you purchase the best versions, the Truewind maps have a resolution of 650 feet (200 meters), which is less than the spacing between modern machines. That means they can be used to provisionally site individual machines on the ground.

old-wind-maps

Many estimates have been made of the wind energy potential of the United States and the Earth. John Etzler made one of the first way back in the 1830s. He used loose numerical analogies to sailing ships to calculate that “the whole extent of the wind’s power over the globe amounts to about … 40,000,000,000,000 men’s power.”

The water-pumping windmill industry flourished in latter half of the 19th century, but wind energy potential calculations did not advance past the back-of-the-envelope until after World War II. When Palmer Putnam attempted to find the best site in Vermont for the first-megawatt sized wind turbine in the early 1940s, his first line of analysis was to look at how bent the trees were.

The 1980s saw a boom in wind energy in the state of California, driven by a number of federal and state incentives as well as an active environmental culture. Back then, the only way to really know how hard and often the wind blew was to put up a tower covered in sensors and measure. So, wind-farm developers concentrated their efforts on three areas — Tehachapi, Altamont Pass and San Gorgonio — and covered the places with towers to measure the wind.

“I still have some databases from back then and you look at them and say, ‘Oh my, they had 120 towers up,’ or something crazy,” Brower said. “That’s not how it’s done anymore.”

Even low-resolution regional maps did not exist until the early 1980s and the first national map was only published by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (née Solar Energy Research Institute) in 1986. As you can see from the map above, it was more of a general guide than a series of detailed local estimates.

The real boom in wind data came with the availability of cheap computational power in the late 1990s. It was then that Brower’s company began being able to marry large-scale weather models with small-scale topographic models. They created a parallel process for crunching wind data and ran it on small, fast PCs to get supercomputer-level power at low cost. Then, they refined their estimates with data from 1,600 wind measurement towers.

The result is a much more accurate forecast. Truewind’s estimates of wind speed at a location have an uncertainty margin of 0.35 meters a second. Good wind sites have average wind speeds of between 6.5 and 10 m/s, though most onshore areas don’t get above 9. Perhaps more importantly, their estimates for how many kilowatt-hours a turbine in a location will produce are accurate to within 10 percent, Brower stated.

The newest models are now sufficiently good that developers don’t need as much on-site data. They do still use towers to check the maps and models produced by companies like Truewind, but not nearly as many, which reduces the expense and time that it takes to execute a project.

“You might see 10 or 15 towers over an area that would have had 50 or 100 towers before,” he said.

The new data, including these maps and forecasting models, may not directly make wind farms cheaper, but the advances certainly makes them easier to plan for, develop and operate.

“I think of it more as greasing the wheels of the process more than producing a really big cost savings,” Brower said. “You reduce the friction, the transaction costs, and that enables you to get where you’re going faster.”

The better processes, along with state renewable-energy mandates, seem to be helping. In 2009, 10 gigawatts of wind capacity was installed in the United States to bring the nation’s total to 35 gigawatts.

The data plays a more subtle role, too. In helping make the case that wind energy can play a very substantial role in supplying electricity, the new maps and estimates could help convince industrial and political leaders to support renewable energy, particularly in windy heartland states like Kansas, Montana and Nebraska.

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1. Images: NREL/Truewind. 2. NREL. 3. Chart background: Wayfinder_73/Flickr

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Wind turbines generated just 52,000 gigawatt-hours in 2008, the last year for which annual statistics are available. /??/

Wind speed generally increases with height, and most wind turbines are taller than they used to be, standing at about 250 feet (80 meters) instead of 165 feet (50 meters).

In 2009, 10 gigawatts of wind capacity was installed in the United States to bring the nation’s total to 35 gigawatts.

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