If you are a big fan of wind power, as I am, then this is an exciting time to live in Cleveland. Like so many communities along the Great Lakes, we are studying the possibility of adding a wind farm to our lake. This could potentially produce a huge amount of cheap and clean power to our city and region. In case you don’t realize it, as I didn’t when we first moved here, most of the power in this neck of the woods comes from burning coal. While there has been plenty of talk about clean burning coal, I don’t think that this is the answer. If clean coal is even possible, it still would require mining. Mining for coal often means mountaintop removal (do I even need to say anything about how bad this is for the environment), and the coal mining industry provides some of the worst jobs in the country. To that point, clean coal would cost the same to generate as truly clean wind power. I was reading Chris Gammell’s blog today and he has written a great article about what is going on in a more technical way, when it comes to wind power generation. While I wish that I had been at the talk that he attended, much of it would likely have gone over my head. Chris, on the other hand, managed to boil it all down to the key ideas and tell them in an understandable way. Read his article to learn more!
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