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US Wind Power Is Expected To Double In the Next 5 Years

Posted by Soulskill on from the will-power-8-light-bulbs-instead-of-4 dept.

merbs writes: The U.S. Department of Energy anticipates that the amount of electricity generated by wind power to more than double over the next five years. Right now, wind provides the nation with about 4.5 percent of its power. But an in-depth DOE report (PDF) released yesterday forecasts that number will rise to 10 percent by 2020—then 20 percent by 2030, and 35 percent by 2050.

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  1. Re:Has anyone studied? by Buchenskjoll · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I bet someone has. Try to do a little googling on the bird issue, for instance: Windmills kill 58000 to 440000 birds in US per year. Domestic cats kill 3.7 billion (3700000000) birds in US per year. http://www.brighthubengineerin... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

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