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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[c6gunner]

Congratulations Slashdotters, you've outdone yourselves this time! Never in my life have I seen so much redundancy with so little benefit. I think it's safe to say that we could replace 95% of the comments in this thread with:

"America is teh ghay!"

without losing a shred of information.

And people call Vista bloated ....

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[cheekyboy]

Those stupid Nimbys, where do they think they get their coal powered electricity from. Stupid pricks.

Either give em free pot, or send em to jail for 'working' for the oil companies, because im sure there are 4 levels of indirect funding of their legal actions against sound power generation by oil corps.