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Amid the recent economic downturn, demand in the U.S. is rising for small wind turbines to power people's homes. The American Wind Energy Association says sales of such turbines rose 15 percent in 2009. One man in Florida is generating his own power

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By Zulima Palacio Washington, DC 24 April 2006 watch Wind Power report It is estimated that the world's consumption of energy will increase by 60 percent over the next 20 years. Today half of U.S. ele

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One of the key sources of renewable energy being developed today is wind power, utilizing giant turbines to generate electricity. These work best in windy places like the U.S. Great Plains that stretch from west Texas in the south to the Dakotas in

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I Towards seven oclock in the evening, after having drunk my tea, I left a station, the name of which I do not remember, though I do remember it was somewhere in the district of the Don Cossack Army near Novocherkassk.* It was already dark when, havi

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Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950

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Last month, President Obama pledged nearly half a billion dollars toward the development of solar and geothermal energies. But what about wind? A team of scientists estimates that wind turbines in the continental U.S. could produce 16 times more ele

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By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 13 May 2007 Villagers are dwarfed by giant windmills built by the Danish Development Agency in northern Philippines (File) The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a 100-megawatt wind energy plant in India as part

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By Sean Maroney Washington 13 December 2006 watch Paul Sisco report The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration says the current shuttle crew's first space walk outside the International Space Station was a huge success. VOA's Sean Marone

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By Sean Maroney Washington 15 December 2006 Astronauts from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery have successfully rewired half of the International Space Station to run on its permanent power system. VOA's Sean Maroney reports from Washington with deta

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By Paul Sisco Washington 21 February 2008 With oil prices on the rise, the U.S. wind energy industry grew at record levels in 2007 and an industry group says it expects similar growth this year. In today's searching for solutions report, Paul Sisco l

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He made his fortune in oil, but energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens has now embarked on a national public relations campaign to move the country away from oil and towards a renewable energy future. But, as VOA's Greg Flakus reports from Houston, many ene

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Meridian Energy has decided not to go ahead with their plan to put 176 wind turbines in Central Otago. Local people set up a protest group. This group has spent a lot of time and money fighting to stop Meridian Energy for the last six years. In 2009,