Texas is the leading producer of wind power in the United States. Most of the wind farms are located in West Texas, where the highest winds blow and land is plentiful. In the last few years, wind farms have been springing up along the Gulf Coast in Southern Texas. Compared to West Texas, these coastal
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Hey now, who stopped the wind? The American Wind Energy Association has reported a dramatic decrease in demand for wind power this year, and a lot of it has to do with Capitol Hill’s lack of action on the renewable energy front. With fossil fuel use increasing because of its relative cheapness in an unstable
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Oceana, an environmental group, released a study showing that the Atlantic coast has more energy from wind than from oil or gas. Wind turbines would lower chances of accidents like in the Gulf of Mexico, and by reducing coal use they would cut air pollution that warms water and makes it acidic.
Anyone for a wind battery? Several companies are working on it. The idea is to store wind energy during the night when electricity demand and rates are low, then discharge it when rates are high. Costs are still too expensive, but new battery technologies now being tested are promising.
In a way, this New York Times headline is a trick question. It really doesn’t matter who builds the first North American offshore wind farm. What matters is that the U.S. develops an offshore wind industry to provide some of its energy needs and to compete with Europe, China, and Japan, who are far ahead.
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