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| Local zoning stymies U.S. wind power |  |
| Standoffs between cities and green-minded homeowners are becoming more common as interest grows in residential turbines. U.S. ...
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| Kansas Utility Executives Endorse Renewable Energy Goals | |
| "We welcome these goals because they do set the industry on a path toward growth" Even as a couple of their electric companies plan new coal-fired generating plants, executives from six top Kansas utilities said Friday they`ve agreed to goals from Gov. via Canadian Business Magazine |
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| Windmills worrisome in Noxen | |
| "The problems with turbines are that these things don`t just go up and stay up, they go down" Nearly 100 people packed into the old Noxen Schoolhouse on Tuesday and listened to about four hours of debate about wind turbines. via The Times-Tribune |
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| Renewables - May 26 | |
| Staff, EB. Cheaper solar power heads mainstream
Row over wind power rages in Norfolk
EU crafts biofuel rules with eye on environment |
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| Turkey Waste Will Power Electric Plant | |
| "We`ve got a long-term, economically and environmentally sustainable alternative to land-spreading _ the only advancement in manure management technology since the development of the spreader" The gray, sandy mix of turkey droppings and other bits and pieces flowing through Greg Langmo`s fingers back onto the floor of his barn isn`t just funky dirt, it`s fuel.With 16,000 hens gobbling around him, Langmo is standing on a 15-inch layer of turkey litter _ some 750 tons of the stuff _ that represents a new source of energy.It will help fuel a $200 million power plant due to begin full-scale production next month. The 55-megawatt Fibrominn LLC plant will be the first poultry litter-fired power plant in the United States, tapping a novel source of renewable energy to produce enough power for 50,000 homes. Its developers are planning similar plants in other major poultry states. Read more |
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| Economic View: With Help, Could Ethanol Be the Next Internet? | |
| Many of the same venture capitalists who financed Internet companies in the 1990s are now financing alternative energy start-ups. |
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