cleantechnica wrote that there’s a bit of money, too, totaling about $100,000 from the federal stimulus package, aka the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
The Great Lakes Commission has been granted $99,740 to develop a set of “Best Practices to Accelerate Wind Power in the Great Lakes and Beyond.”
Michigan, the Great Lakes state, has become renowned recently for a record number of proposed coal-fired power plants (eight). With plans recently shelved for a new coal burner in Midland, near the headquarters of the Dow Chemical Co., that number is down to 7.
What is wind worth to Michigan and other Great Lake states? The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that a 20 percent wind-energy scenario by 2030 would cut carbon dioxide emissions by 1,260 tons and save more than 600,000 gallons of water. In other words, 70 times the amount of bottle water consumed in the United States in 2007.
HAASE - Go 20% renewable on the price of 2 Chevy volts... is this a joke? If it is, it is not funny.
10X this would not be even enough to build, permit one coal plant. How will we ever meet 20% renewables or have a sustainable future in even 20 years if we are investing less in renewable products than defaulting the mortgage on ONE home!
Do we really want a energy independent and sustainable future?