wind power

Getting wind power in your own backyard

KEYE - CBS 42  Tue, 10/21/2008 - 1:37pm

Families are adding small wind turbines to their roofs to help make their own energy, or just give back to the grid.



 

Wind power speed record bid fails

BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition  Thu, 09/11/2008 - 7:19pm

A team hoping to break the world land-speed record for a wind-powered vehicle blames global warming for its failure.



 

Wind power: A reality check

CNN Money  Tue, 07/22/2008 - 1:22pm

High profile personalities have been all over the news lately telling the nation to ditch that dirty fossil fuel and turn to renewable energy.



 

T. Boone Pickens Proposes National Energy Plan

Donklephant  Tue, 07/08/2008 - 12:30pm

It’s called the Pickens Plan and he lays it out pretty succinctly in this video…



 

Brown pushes wind power expansion

BBC News | Science/Nature | World Edition  Thu, 06/26/2008 - 5:57am

Thousands of wind turbines could be built across the UK as part of a £100bn plan to boost renewable energy.



 

Wind power company Noble files for public offering

CNET Tech blog  Fri, 05/09/2008 - 1:11pm

Wind energy company Noble Environmental Power has filed to raise as much as $375 million in an initial public offering, according to a document with the Securities and Exchange Commission that was filed Thursday.

The Connecticut.-based company, which plans to list its shares with the Nasdaq under the symbol "...



 

Michigan Schools Embrace Wind Power, Biodiesel

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 04/04/2008 - 8:14am

A rural school district in Michigan has gone green. One school powers itself with wind turbines, and students soon will press oil from soybeans and sunflowers for biodiesel.

The district's efforts are saving money -- and preparing kids for green careers.

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Texas ratepayers could pay billions for wind-power lines

KEYE - CBS 42  Thu, 04/03/2008 - 2:02pm

Building new transmission lines so wind-power turbines can connect to the Texas power grid could cost ratepayers as much as about 6.4 billion dollars.