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New research finds that wind farms actually warm up the surface of the land underneath them during the night, a phenomenon that could put a damper on efforts to expand wind energy as a green energy solution.
Researchers used satellite data from 2003 to 2011 to examine surface temperatures across as wide swath of west Texas, which has built four of the world's largest wind farms. The data showed a direct correlation between night-time temperatures increases of 0.72 degrees C (1.3 degrees F) and the placement of the farms.
"Given the present installed capacity and the projected growth in installation of wind farms across the world, I feel that wind farms, if spatially large enough, might have noticeable impacts on local to regional meteorology," Liming Zhou, associate professor at the State University of New York, Albany and author of the paper published April 29 in Nature Climate Change said in an e-mail to Discovery News.
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CHARLESTON – A report by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) – an association of state legislators – says the Obama EPA is out of control and is “creating regulatory chaos, stagnating investment … [and] destroying jobs.”
“During the past couple of years, the [EPA] has undertaken the most expansive regulatory assault in history on the production and distribution of affordable and reliable energy,” the ALEC researcher team says. “As of 2010, EPA regulations promulgated under the Obama Administration had already surpassed the Agency’s regulatory output in the entire first term of Bill Clinton, which was a period in which the EPA had just been handed broad new powers. With 30 major regulations and more than 170 policy rules still being finalized in the next five years, the extent of EPA’s actions could surpass its entire 40-year history of regulation.”
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We have an urgent national priority: moving forward with the development and demonstration of energy-efficient technologies that would enable America to burn fossil fuels more cleanly and cheaply.
With the outlook dimming for nuclear power and renewable energy sources, there are growing concerns that efforts to maintain air quality and combat global warming will fail as energy production increases in the years ahead.
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EARLY VOTING SCHEDULE
Early voting for the May 8th primary election begins April 25th and concludes May 5th. For more information contact yourCounty Clerk’s office or the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office.
Most of all … exercise your rights and VOTE!
For more information about these and other deadlines, check out the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Election webpage at http://www.sos.wv.gov/
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The West Virginia Coal Association will be taking part in a panel discussion at this year’s Nemacolin Energy Institute National Coal Conference April 24-25 in Farmington, PA. The event will be held at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and will feature speakers from ACCCE, the NMA and CONSOL Energy.
WVCA President Bill Raney will represent the Association in a panel discussion along with Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association; Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association and George Ellis, president of the Pennsylvania Coal Association.
For more information or to register, visit the event website at www.nationalcoalconference.com
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