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This is Why You Avoid Story Stocks

May 24, 2010

February’s A Big Future for Small Wind? was a hopeful story on small-scale wind power, based largely on a conversation with a representative of WindTamer, a New York start-up with a promising new turbine design that the company claimed was far more efficient than anything else on the market. Lots of people were lining up [...]

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Wind Power Bumps Up Against Some Limits

March 3, 2010

One of the raps against “big wind” is the “big” part. Because turbines become more efficient as they get taller, the newest models are skyscrapers — noisy skyscrapers. And this is limiting their usefulness on land. See this, from today’s Wall Street Journal:
The Brewing Tempest Over Wind Power
People living near turbines increasingly report sleep deprivation, [...]

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A Big Future for Small Wind?

February 1, 2010

The alt-energy conventional wisdom has always been that solar panels, because they’re just as efficient on a single rooftop as in a utility-scale desert array, are the future of distributed power generation. Wind turbines, because they get more efficient as they grow, are most useful as 300-meter high monsters in offshore wind farms rather than [...]

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Power Shift

January 22, 2010

Mother Earth News just published a long excerpt from environmental writer Amanda Little’s Power Trip. Here’s an excerpt of the excerpt. The rest can be seen here.

War Without Guns
My venture into America’s energy future began with a trip to a flat, dry and mostly barren town in the gusty prairies of west Texas that [...]

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