July 09, 2009
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Energy & Renewables Newsletter July 09, 2009 |
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Pickens scraps plan for world`s largest wind farm
Energy tycoon T Boone Pickens this week confirmed he is scrapping his high profile $10bn plan to build the world`s largest wind farm in Texas, and will instead divert resources to a number of smaller wind farms across the Midwest. Pickens said that previously delayed plans for a 2,000 turbine 4,000MW development on 200,000 acres in the Texas panhandle had been shelved altogether, after technical problems with connecting the site to population centres emerged. `It was a little more complicated than we thought,` he Pickens told the Dallas Morning News. The decision represents a major blow to the ... |
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Biofuels studies to benefit from better lab test
Thank sunlight, algae and green plants for the air we breathe, the food we eat and, in the not-too-distant future, the fuels that power our trips by plane, rail and automobile. In a process that is as complex as it is elegant, as breathtaking as it is breath-making, sunlight excites electrons in plant cells setting off a chain reaction that rips apart water to release oxygen and then changes carbon dioxide to sugars to produce fuel. Now, a couple of scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have found a simpler, faster and far less costly way to measure manganese — the metal ... |
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