Aerotecture: Making Power Where You Need It

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Aerotecture: Making Power Where You Need It

GROW combines solar panels and leaves

Sustainable design group SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology) has a new project called GROW that is capable of harnessing both solar and wind power.

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Texas grows wind-energy capacity, maintains U.S. lead

Texas expanded its wind-energy capacity by 57 percent in 2007.

What's more, Texas has 1,238.28 megawatts under construction, tops among other states. With no permitting required and plentiful open spaces, the state is considered a prime location for wind-farm developments.

U.S. wind farms will generate just over 1 percent of the nation's electricity supply this year, and the estimated 48 billion kilowatt-hours of wind energy is enough to power the equivalent of more than 4.5 million homes, according to the trade group
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2007: record year for US wind industry

Shattering all its previous records, the U.S. wind energy industry installed 5,244 megawatts (MW) in 2007, expanding the nation's total wind power generating capacity by 45% in a single calendar year.
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