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Rock Port, MO, Becomes First Energy Independent Town in USA

	  
	  
	  
	  
      

   
      

     
      
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	  
	        
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
rock port wind turbinesFollowing the opening of a new four-turbine wind farm last week, Rock Port in North West Missouri has become the first U.S. town to get all its electricity from wind power.


The $90 million Loess Hills Wind Farm, built on bluffs west of the town, generates five megawatts each day, more than enough for the settlement of 1,300 people. In fact, the farm generates enough electricity to power another similar-sized town. This has led Missouri Joint Municipal Utilities to buy excess power from the site. The farm is eventually expected to generate 16 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.


The farm was built in a partnership between St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group and John Deere, who has been helping fund rural wind projects all over America. Speaking at the grand opening last Friday, project manager, Eric Chamberlain said, “Rock Port is making the burning of fossil fuels today’s alternative energy supply.”


It’ll be really interesting to see whether the success of this community-supported initiative will inspire similar projects elsewhere in the country.


Via Columbia Daily Tribune




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Rock Port, MO, Becomes First Energy Independent Town in USA home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
Following the opening of a new four-turbine wind farm last week, Rock Port in North West Missouri has become the first U.S. town to get all its electricity from wind power.


The $90 million Loess Hills Wind Farm, built on bluffs west of the town, generates five megawatts each day, more than enough for the settlement of 1,300 people. In fact, the farm generates enough electricity to power another similar-sized town. This has led Missouri Joint Municipal Utilities to buy excess power from the site. The farm is eventually expected to generate 16 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year.


The farm was built in a partnership between St. Louis-based Wind Capital Group and John Deere, who has been helping fund rural wind projects all over America. Speaking at the grand opening last Friday, project manager, Eric Chamberlain said, “Rock Port is making the burning of fossil fuels today’s alternative energy supply.”


It’ll be really interesting to see whether the success of this community-supported initiative will inspire similar projects elsewhere in the country.


Via Columbia Daily Tribune




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think city evNorwegian company Think Global has announced plans to sell its Think City EV in the US from next year.


Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Green Conference in Pasadena, CA on Monday, CEO Jan-Oluf Willums announced that cars will arrive in the US in limited numbers later this year. The first cars are destined for utilities like Pacific Gas and Electric and ‘influential companies’ such as Google, for test and evaluation purposes. Cars will go on sale to the general public in 2009.


The vehicle has a top speed of 65MPH and a range of 110 miles between charges. It is described as emissions free, 95% recyclable and compliant with all relevant US and European safety standards.


Cars will be brought to the US by Think North America, a joint-venture between Think Global and venture capitalist firms Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers and RockPort Capital Partners. The new set-up will be based in Menlo Park, CA.


The company expects the cars to cost in the region of $25,000, with anticipated annual sales of 50,000 units in two or three years. At that price, it looks as if Think is aiming to go head to head with Toyota for a slice of the market in affordable environmentally conscious cars.


Via Mercury News


Read the full Think Global press release here




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THINK EVs to go Mainstream in the U.S. with 50,000 Units home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
If you are overwhelmed with debt, you may be wondering whether bankruptcy is a viable option to help you get out from under the bills. You, like millions of Americans, may have fallen into a mountain of debt through no real fault of your own. You may have gone through a divorce or lost your job. You may have suffered an illness or injury, and suddenly found yourself unable to pay the bills you have accumulated.

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Alternatives to Bankruptcy home design 
  

					 		 
	  


		      
	  

				          

				            
				            
 

				          

						  
						  

								
chad-pregracke-baseball-hat-life-vest-tire-boat-trash-garbage-living-lands-waters-clean-up-illinois-mississippi-river-photo.jpgChad Pregracke and Living Lands & Waters Inspire Us to Clean Up Our Acts and Our Rivers If today’s Earth Day is getting you pumped about helping the planet, we following up on Green Deets 017 with some m…





  





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“The Rivers’ Garbage Man” on CBS News Video home design 
  

					 		 
	  


			
 

	
 

	
	

	
  wnętrza wrocław kredyty For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of
pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble, since they are produced in
different places and to assemble them is difficult and costly Venus, on becoming free from the hindrance of the sun's rays, crosses
the space of a sign in thirty days Hence, Ctesibius, observing that sounds and tones were produced by
the contact between the free air and that which was forced from the
pipe, made use of this principle in the construction of the first water
organs Likewise the poets who wrote the
ancient comedies in Greek have expressed the same sentiments in their
verses on the stage: for example, Eucrates, Chionides, Aristophanes, and
with them Alexis in particular, who says that the Athenians ought to be
praised for the reason that, while the laws of all Greeks require the
maintenance of parents by their children, the laws of the Athenians
require this only in the case of those who have educated their children
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