"The electric transmission investments proposed in the new Obama administration’s stimulus plan would have a major impact on wind power development in the United States, according to Emerging Energy Research, a Cambridge, Massachusetts, advisory firm in the renewable energy sector." Study: Electric Transmission Investment, by Emerging Energy Research

Wind power has good potential to supplement our country's electrical usage but wind power will not replace the use of hydrocarbons. I a... Read More

1 comments View Entry

Energy is is all around us. It is in our bodies, in our food, in our homes, in nature, in animals and plants, in the sun, and in the wind. We don't tend to think of how much energy we actually have right in front of us. As Barrak Obama starts hi presidency i have high hopes for change in the energy crisis. Yet we as individuals can take steps to change our ways to more healthy and efficient ways of living. If each one of us took the initiative to harness our own individual energy we could tac... Read More

1 comments View Entry

I read about T. Boon Pickens and his plan to build huge wind farms across the high plains from Texas to Canada.  This is already going on in the Texas panhandle.  He, Mr. Pickens, is quoted as saying that Texas is the Saudi Arabia of potential wind power.  There is one problem though not mentioned in the stuff I have read.  Texas is not connected to the North American Power Grids.  All electricity generated in Texas must stay in Texas.  This is because the power... Read More

4 comments View Entry