Have you ever wondered what goes into building a wind turbine atop a ridgeline? Below is a 5-minute video that goes from factory to mountain top and highlights the processes in between. It is a worthwhile viewing.

Article reposted here from The Bangor Daily News, go there for original and comments. 8/20/10 07:42 pm Updated: 8/21/10 11:40 am By Heather Steeves BDN Staff VINALHAVEN, Maine — Residents expressed grievances about turbine noise at a Thursday meeting that allowed islanders to ask questions of two wind professionals who will be collecting noise data [...]

Originally from the New York Times. By LEORA BROYDO VESTEL BARSTOW, Calif. — The United States military has found a new menace hiding here in the vast emptiness of the Mojave Desert in California: wind turbines. Moving turbine blades can be indistinguishable from airplanes on many radar systems, and they can even cause blackout zones [...]

Article reposted here is originally from Vermont Business Magazine. Tue Aug 17 2010 Author: Joyce Marcel America’s oil crisis in the Seventies shone a spotlight on the growing need for renewable energy sources, including water, sunlight and wind. The need inspired two starry-eyed mechanical engineers who graduated Cornell University in 1982.

Article reposted here from Vermont Business Magazine. Tue Aug 17 2010 Author: Kevin Kelley Tax credits and other incentives are spurring a solar-energy boom in Vermont, with more than half-a-dozen commercial projects underway or nearing construction in various parts of the state.

Below is the first of the videos of the meeting that took place in Craftsbury on August 3rd to discuss Green Mountain Power’s Lowell project. Please note that this is the first in a series of ten and you will have to go to YouTube to watch the rest of the series. Also, the audio [...]

Article from Vermont Business Magazine, with original available online here. Author Robert Smith, August 17th, 2010. Christopher L Dutton was named president and chief executive officer of Vermont Electric Power Company on April 12, following a vote by Vermont Electric Power Company’s board of directors.