US Becomes Top Wind Producer; Solar Next

SpuriousLogic sends along a SciAm piece that begins, "The United States overtook Germany as the biggest producer of wind power last year, new figures showed, and will likely take the lead in solar power this year, analysts said on Monday. Even before an expected 'Obama bounce' from a new President who has vowed to boost clean energy, US wind power capacity surged 50 percent last year to 25 gigwatts — enough to power more than five million homes."

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Re:Makes you wonder

[thePowerOfGrayskull]

Aw c'mon. You've been here long enough to realize that this is the most common (and successful) form of karma-whoring there is. Post a comment in reply to an early post - preferably in response to one that is modded highly - and you don't have to even consider the post you're replying to. As long as it's relevant in some way to the article, you'll get modded up. It's all about getting seen by the moderators before they lose interest in the comments.

To me, this is the definition of offtopic - since it has nothing to do with the comment being replied to - and I mod it so when I have mod points. Clearly this is the minority opinion...