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"A few years ago, Mary read an article about wind farms. Impressed at the ingenuity and light footprint on the earth, she purchases wind energy credits from a co-op, and that allows her to reduce C02 emissions. Fortunately for all of us, the energy flip is well under way. Advanced engine technologies developed by Japanese automakers, Toyota and Honda, have produced hybrid vehicles that are far more fuel-efficient than those with traditional internal combustion engines. Toyota's Prius is so popular that there is a six-month waiting list." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"BP is currently focusing their efforts on the development of wind farms at existing BP refineries and petrochemical plants; this has the additional benefit of curtailing the spread of industrialized land. And as far as continued use of fossil fuels is concerned, BP is part of a major effort to find ways to reduce emissions and reduce consumption. For example, research at Princeton University, supported by BP and Ford, has produced several scenarios in transportation where, using existing technologies, emissions could be cut by as much as 3.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide annually." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Turbines at three West Texas wind farms harness the wind to supply pollution-free energy. Two landfills, one located just outside Austin and the other located near San Antonio, collect methane produced by decay to generate electricity. It fulfills every idea of what it is to stop being toxic. www.amd.com Intel The World Economic Forum ranked Intel eighteenth among the 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the world in 2 004.10 The company's progress since then has been consistent with improvements in reducing greenhouse gas emissions." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"But wind power is growing (from 4,800 megawatts generated in 1995 to 59,322 megawatts in 2005, according to the Worldwatch Institute), and as more people build wind farms, the price of wind power drops. In fact, some recent wind projects are cranking out electricity that is priced competitively with coal and oil, and far cheaper than nuclear power, with none of the radioactivity or greenhouse-gas pollution. The Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratory estimates that as wind power's price drops to a competitive level, wind could quickly supply 20 percent of the nation's electricity." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Not so: under the right conditions, good wind farms already generate electricity for three cents per kilowatt-hour, which is almost as cheap as the cheapest energy source around—coal. Energy subsidies, or carbon taxes and credits can make wind power the cheapest energy source available. Solar photovoltaics are expensive compared to the grid, but in remote locations they are often cheaper than running power lines. Ten years from now, the cost of wind and solar power are projected to be one-tenth of what they are now, owing to technology and manufacturing improvements." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Choosing to buy green power generated from renewable, low-impact sources such as solar panels or wind farms is as basic and important to energy conservation as turning off the lights when you leave the room. You can do your part by buying energy from utilities that generate their power directly from renewable or zero-emissions sources." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Every time one of us switches to compact fluorescents and wind power, a bunch of good things happen: less coal is burned (meaning healthier air and less damage to our climate); more wind farms are built; and energy companies get a signal that there's a market for energy-efficient products and more clean energy. By designing our lives to be greener, we help nudge the whole economy toward a bright green future. Individual actions are great, but look for individual actions that will influence others. There's an old saying that living well is the best revenge." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Yes, European nations have made major investments in "wind farms." Denmark was getting 18 percent of its electricity from wind in 2003, the most per capita of any country. Germany was producing more than 10,000 megawatts from its installations, Spain more than 3,000. This is all possible because the world has been at or around the historic peak of oil production, meaning the oil economy at the millennium was at its most robust just when these wind farms were set up." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Wind turbines are visually intrusive, and onshore wind farms tend to be sited in highland areas which are visible for great distances. Offshore wind installations can be sited below the horizon if the seabed is shallow enough to allow it, but are more expensive to build and operate." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Today windmills with aerodynamic designs are grouped together in wind farms. More than 30,000 windmills in farms located in mountain passes, at sea, or wherever winds are common generate about a million kW each year. Clocks In ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia sundials were used to measure the time of day by the position of a shadow, while water clocks measured the passage of time by the level of water flowing from a vessel. About A.D." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Instead of running all the air conditioners of Houston on oil- or gas-generated electricity, we'll use wind farms, or massive solar arrays; we'll have super-fuel-efficient cars and keep on commuting over the interstate highway system. It isn't going to happen. The wish to keep running the same giant systems at gigantic scale using renewables is the heart of our illusions about solar, wind, and water power." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This is all possible because the world has been at or around the historic peak of oil production, meaning the oil economy at the millennium was at its most robust just when these wind farms were set up." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Germany has next to zero oil and gas resources and not much of a Plan B, despite a big push to develop wind farms on the North Sea. That said, the nations of Europe enjoy some advantages over the United States in facing the Long Emergency. Although all European countries have some suburban development, it is nowhere comparable to the complete fiasco of American suburbia, and they did not trash their towns and cities in the process, as America did." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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