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The president’s State of the Union address was big on promoting innovation and ingenuity as a means of boosting the U.S. economy.“We have to out-innovate,…
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The notion that New York State is broke has saturated the news the past few years. And doubly so since Governor Andrew Cuomo declared fixing the issue his…
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Eric Toone from the Department of Energy's ARPA-E division was at the University of Rochester last night. We covered his talk on national policy around…
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Congress is finishing up its so-called lame duck session. While items like the repeal of “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell,” renewing the Bush tax cuts, and food…
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A recent report from the agency that monitors New York’s electric grid says the state can quintuple the amount of wind power pulsing through the system by…
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Wind turbines need a lot of wind to create electricity. Their placement is critical. That’s why the science and technology behind predicting where the…
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The flywheel is nothing new. It was first used to power old wind mills. But Beacon Power, a company based in Massachusetts, has taken the basic concept of…
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How wind turbines are constructed isn’t up to the state or the federal government. It’s actually up to the various local governments to enact local…
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New York State is between incentive programs for small wind and customers in the market for a household turbine have put their purchase on hold."We're in…
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Purchasing a household wind turbine works a little differently than purchasing a refrigerator. That probably makes sense given that a small turbine can be…