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    • Senate Republicans block windfall taxes on Big Oil

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      Saved by Senate Republicans, big oil companies dodged an attempt Tuesday to slap them with a windfall profits tax and take away billions of dollars in tax breaks in response to the record gasoline prices that have the nation fuming. GOP senators shoved aside...

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    • British Telecom to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 80% By 2020

      Posted by Jeff from Feeds.treehugger

      British Telecom Carbon Emissions image BT Has a Green Plan for the Future Communication giant British Telecom (BT) has announced that it plans to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2020. But the real good news is that they are already on the right track so far, and are making big investments for the future like a $500-million wind farm that could generate enough clean electricity to power 25% of the company by 2016, making it the biggest non power utility investor in wind power in the UK (for now - we hope there will be a lot of competition for that top spot). They also ins...

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    • Floating Wind Turbines

      Posted by Jeff from Slashdot

      The Great Pulgoso sends us word that Norwegian energy group Norsk Hydro has signed an agreement with Siemens to develop floating wind turbines. The companies agreed on a schedule that would see a prototype in the North Sea by 2009 and a working wind farm using 5-megawatt generators by 2013. (Norsk Hydro unveiled the design in 2005.) Inhabitat.com has taken the giant illustrations from the Norsk Hydro site and reproduced them at a reasonable size. The design features a steel tube 200 meters long...

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    DeCapeJack comments on:

    The Age Blogs: Management Line

    No, but wind farms are part of the answers, along with better auto mileage, better insulated homes and businesses, solar, geothermal, and reduction of meat from our diets.

    I live on coastal Delaware, in the US, and within 15 miles of a huge coal burning power plant. My area has proven to be in what is called a cancer cluster, with lung cancer being at the head of the list. So, not only is the power plant dumping great amounts of CO2 into the air, but also very likely contributing to our high rate of cancer.

    Happily, there is an initiative for building a windfarm about 10 miles off our shoreline, which would provide about 400KW of clean power on a good day. Would I trade the towers from the coal burning plant for wind towers? In a New York minute!

    Wind has to be a part of the overall solution, where it makes sense, but it isn’t the only part.

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