Just think where this country would already be if we hadn't allowed the special interest groups to continue tjhe blocking, some forty years now, the alternative energy industry and they continue to do so. We'd not only be the World leader in producing alternative clean energy but we'd be leading in the manufacturing and innovations in, selling our products around the world, as well as R&D in other possible sources, as we once did in oh so many industries and once strong economic growth. Especially the now of these last couple of years with the collapsed economy and our congress, as well as state legislators, obstructing public investments in growth of the industry with production done here, not by those who now have the innovative trades we've exported, as the private financing of the free market capitalist doesn't exist, just as they planned it.
Apr. 13, 2012 - Minnesota was the fourth most active state for adding wind power in 2011, according to the latest annual report from the American Wind Energy Association.
Minnesota installed 542 megawatts of wind energy during 2011, bringing the state's total installed capacity to 2,733 megawatts, the wind industry's annual report showed Thursday.
The additional wind capacity allowed Minnesota to hold on to its fifth place ranking for installed capacity.
Texas continued to lead the nation with 10,394 megawatts of installed capacity, followed by Iowa with 4,322 megawatts, California with 3,924 megawatts and Illinois jumping from seventh in 2010 to fourth in 2011 with 2,742 megawatts, according to AWEA's report.
The nation as a whole added 6,816 megawatts of wind energy in 2011, a 31 percent gain from 2010, for a total of 46,916 megawatts, AWEA said.
Developers in states across the nation are racing to put wind projects in the ground this year, before a production tax credit expires on Dec. 31.
AWEA officials predicted that if the production tax credit is not extended, wind energy development would grind to a halt, and it could mean the loss of 37,000 jobs. read more>>>
It makes no difference whether you believe that climate change exists, it does, or whether humans and our actions are a major contributor to the rapid changes, we are, the denial of is just the latest from those special interests to continue suppressing the growth in an industry we should already have, which would have brought on other industries adding to what we once had as well.
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