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Africa: Wind Power in Global Context
Wind is the centerpiece of the Plan B energy economy. It is abundant, low cost, and widely distributed; it scales up easily and can be developed quickly. Oil wells go dry and coal seams run out, but the earth's wind resources cannot be depleted. A worldwide survey of wind energy by the Stanford University team of Cristina Archer and Mark Jacobson concluded that harnessing one fifth of the earth's available wind energy would provide seven times as much electricity as the world currently uses. For example, China with vast wind-swept plains in the north and west, countless mountain ridges, and a long coastline, all rich with wind has enough readily harnessable wind energy to easily double its current electrical generating capacity.
The United States is also richly endowed. In addition to having enough land-based wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs several times over, the National Renewable Energy Lab has identified 1,000 gigawatts (1 gigawatt equals 1,000 megawatts) of wind energy waiting to be tapped off the East Coast and 900 gigawatts off the West Coast. This offshore capacity alone is sufficient to power the U.S. economy. Europe is already tapping its off-shore wind. An assessment by the Garrad Hassan wind energy consulting group concluded that if governments aggressively develop their vast off-shore resources, wind could supply all of Europe's residential electricity by 2020.
North Country Gazette » Suffolk Heating Oil Firms Added Improper ...
The agreements with Avalon Fuel Corporation, Ben Oil Company, Inc., Blue Collar Fuel, Inc., Comfort Fuel, Inc., Discount Oil, Inc., K Skee Fuel Oil Corp., NAPCO Oil Heat Corporation, Nordica Fuel Corp., Oil King of Long Island, Parkside Fuel, Inc., Pazienza Bay Carting and Fuel Company, Inc., Rocky & Marciano Fuel Oil, Inc., Southville Petroleum Corporation and Taylor Fuel, Inc. end the practice of adding surcharges for credit card payments and provide refunds to more than 2,000 affected consumers and pay penalties and costs to the state. “As winter approaches, families across the state start looking for the best and most affordable way to keep their homes warm,” said Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. “This already massive expense should not be compounded by hidden costs and charges that place an even greater burden on New York homeowners. Today’s agreement will provide welcome relief to thousands of Long Islanders who suffered from these companies’ misleading...
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