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Wind Farms in the Upper Midwest.

Four New Wind Farms In The Upper Midwest Could Power 750,000 Homes BY MARI HERNANDEZ, GUEST BLOGGER ON AUGUST 24, 2013 AT 10:00 AM CREDIT: Shutterstock Last week, Minneapolis-based utility Xcel Energy proposed its fourth wind farm in the Upper Midwest since mid-July. If approved, the 150-megawatt Border Winds Project would be developed in North Dakota near theContinue reading “Wind Farms in the Upper Midwest.”

10 Real futuristic Technologies!

http://io9.com/10-real-technologies-that-look-insanely-futuristic-1156180204. I quoted this directly from the post but I think it says what the futuristic technologies are all about very well: Why wait for the future when many of today’s technologies look as though they got here in a time machine? Here are 10 real-life technologies that come from the future. A couple ofContinue reading “10 Real futuristic Technologies!”

Bridge Or Gangplank?

Natural gas is “a bridge to a world with high CO2 Levels,” climatologist Ken Caldeira told me last year. A major new study in Geophysical Research Letters by 19 researchers — primarily from NOAA and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) — suggests natural gas may be more of gangplank than a bridge. Scientists used a researchContinue reading “Bridge Or Gangplank?”