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Building wind power superhighways
2014-10-04 02:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sun Sentinel: The wind is so strong in Iowa and Kansas that more wind farms there could power the country's largest cities if only there was a way to move that electricity to where most people live. Enter Michael Skelly, a Houston businessman who envisions building five superhighways transmission lines to carry vast amounts of wind-generated power across more than 3,000 miles, multiple states, hundreds of jurisdictions and thousands of pieces of privately owned land. The lines, the diameter of a human arm,...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical