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Following up on our series “Dirty Pictures from Big Coal” (here and here), a new report by the group Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) caught our eye. It’s titled “Coal’s Assault on Human Health,” and gives a dirty picture of coal-fired power’s effect inside our bodies — on the human brain, heart and lungs.
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GE 2.5 MW wind turbines in Germany
If work goes according to plan, 338 new wind turbines will be producing as much 845 MW of electricity in north-central Oregon by 2012. The “Shepherds Flat” wind farm will be spread across 30 square miles in north-central Oregon, approximately 120 miles due west of Portland.
This is the first time the GE-made 2.5xl turbines will be used in the US, but 100 of the large turbines (rotor blades are 100 meters long — about 330 feet) have already logged over a million hours of energy production in in Europe and Asia. The wind farm will be owned by New York-based Caithness Energy with the power generated supplying electricity to Southern California Energy customers.
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