From this article: GE Renewable Energy and Invenergy just announced that Oklahoma will soon be home to the largest wind farm in the U.S., the Wind Catcher project, which will have a capacity of 2,000 MW.
Author: craigshields
My Gardener Has Better Credentials to be the USDA’s Top Scientist
I know it’s improper to be amused at catastrophe, but the excesses of the current administration are making that a little tough. Here’s what we’re getting with Trump’s nominee for the Department of Agriculture’s top scientist, Sam Clovis:
Energy Storage North America
I try not to miss the annual Energy Storage North America conference in San Diego each year…and that’s where I’ll be late this afternoon and all day tomorrow. To anyone in the area: please feel free to join me. The trip …
Integrating Renewable Energy Resources Requires Some Careful Thought
We can learn a great deal from the European Investment Bank’s recent decision to pump $5 billion to renewables in the Eastern Hemisphere. Principally, greening up the energy landscape in Europe and Asia is a bit more complicated than dumping …
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Tip To Entrepreneurs
Would-be entrepreneurs sometimes fall into the trap of being too close to their idea to see it objectively, and wrongly assume that everyone’s as enthusiastic about it as they are themselves. This seems to be a wonderful case in point: …
Nothing Not To Like About Aeroponics:
It’s been quite a while since we’ve had any discussion of aeroponics, the cutting-edge agricultural system for growing plants (and raising fish) in an extremely compact manner, with a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional farming. It’s funny, it …
For the Environment, There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
There are so many things we can do in our personal and professional lives to improve environmental sustainability that it’s impossible to count them all. Similarly, there are many different flavors of renewable energy, all vying for dominance in our …
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The Prospect of Mass Death from Global Warming Forces Us To Ask Important Questions About Who We Are
The 3500 deaths of heat that occurred in Pakistan and India in the summer of 2015 are a terrifying harbinger of what our world will be like by the end of the century if our civilization fails to take effective …
Some Job Openings in Sustainability Are More Interesting than Others
As part of our ongoing effort to function as a conduit of information on job openings in the sustainability sector, I present this little beauty: NASA needs someone on staff to protect the planet from aliens. If aliens are coming, …
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This Auto Wreck Won’t Happen
Here’s one you can file under “Business as Usual.” Automakers want to review (read: “repeal and replace”) the Obama-era gas-mileage standards, citing that such an aggressive approach would cripple the U.S. economy and destroy jobs. It seems to me that …
