Good overview article on wind power

General Electric and Warren Buffet are among the investors in wind power.

According to Steve Zwolinski, president of GE Wind Energy, "Wind has become less of a scientific project and more of an energy source. We see a very strong market for the next decade'' as oil costs rise.

In 2002, GE Wind Energy Enron Corp.'s wind-generation business $328 million. GE now makes 1,000 turbines a year. GE wind turbines accont for more than half of the installed capacity in 2003.

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., a unit of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., plans to start building in Iowa the world's biggest wind farm as soon as this year. The $323 million project, on leased farmland, will generate as much as 310 megawatts from as many as 200 wind turbines.

Worldwide wind-turbine sales exceeded $7 billion in 2003 and may double in the next three years, according to the American Wind Power Association.

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Comments

[Aaron Vallejo]

Are these wind companies looking at designing these wind turbines for disassembly? Where the materials are technical nutrients, perpetual food for industry, where we engage in clean, circular industrial production and nothing goes to the landfill?

When these turbines are technical nutrients there are no toxic emission costs, no extraction costs and no health costs because these materials are healthy.

This is Cradle to Cradle Design
http://wesley.stanford.edu/Multimedia/lectures/mcdonough.ram (Feb 2003)

[kiante]

this is a good article