State of Kansas OKs bonds for wind turbine manufacturing plant in … Kansas City Star AP TOPEKA | Kansas leaders have approved $5 million in bonds to help build a wind turbine manufacturing plant in Hutchinson. The State Finance Council last … State OKs bonds to build plant in Hutch Lawrence Journal World all 13 news articles
KU Biodiesel Initiative, Kansas Athletics Team Up for Clean, Green … Kansas City infoZine Engineers from the University of Kansas Biodiesel Initiative have teamed up with Kansas Athletics Inc. to power inflatables at the Hy-Vee Family Hawk Zone …
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Washington Post Wind farms can appear sinister to the weatherman The Associated Press The alert was quickly called off in Kansas and meteorologists calmed the emergency worker down, but with enough wind turbines going up last year to power … False Tornado Warnings From Wind Farms? AccuWeather.com all 169 news articles
Daily Green US Wind-Power Capacity Expansion Not Fast Enough, AWEA Says American Machinist “The instances where manufacturing investment is moving forward in the US are in states like Kansas that have demonstrated a commitment to renewable energy … How do you solve a problem like the Nimbys? guardian.co.uk all 32 news articles
EaglePicher Technologies wants to store the Kansas wind. More specifically, it wants to store energy generated as that hard-blowing wind cranks thousands of turbines that utilities are building across Kansas and other Great Plains states.
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EaglePicher plans batteries to store wind-farm energy (The Joplin Globe)
The rapid growth of the wind energy industry in the U.S. and its economic effects relating to manufacturers, safety training and fall protection equipment . (PRWeb May 13, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/fallprotectionequipment/snugharness/prweb2418364.htm
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HUTCHINSON, KAN. — An executive of German conglomerate Siemens AG says the company wants its future wind turbine assembly plant in Kansas to be a “showcase” for wind energy.
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Siemens AG aims to make Kansas turbine component plant a `showcase’ for wind energy (The San Francisco Examiner)
May 7 (Bloomberg) — White Energy Holding Co. , a closely held ethanol maker with plants in Texas and Kansas, filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors.
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White Energy, Ethanol Producer, Files for Bankruptcy (Update3) (Bloomberg)
DUBLIN—-Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Energy Infrastructure Wall Map of Kansas” map to their offering.
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Research and Markets: Energy Infrastructure Wall Map of Kansas (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the world’s largest shipbuilder, reported a 12.7 percent rise in first quarter net profit on foreign exchange gains, but in a sign of tough times said it hasn’t recieved a single new order in more than six months.
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Hyundai Heavy 1st-quarter net profit gains (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A wind turbine may soon stand above a busy highway in Overland Park. www.kmbc.com
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Wind Turbine May Rise Above I-435
By Carey Gillam KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) – It’s corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather — and hoping there is enough water. [More]
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Water worries cloud future for U.S. biofuel (Scientific American)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., (Reuters) – It’s corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl “Buck” Rexford is worrying about the weather — and hoping there is enough water.
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FEATURE-Water worries cloud future for US biofuel (Indiana’s NewsCenter)
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver says $200 million in federal stimulus money aims to make some of Kansas City’s poorest neighborhoods a model for green living.
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Cleaver Touts $200 Million Green Zone Project (KMBC-TV Kansas City)
As you drive south from this town northwest of Harper, you can see Kansas’ latest boom industry on the horizon. Forty newly activated light-gray turbines in the Flat Ridge I wind farm stretch across 6,000 acres of wheat fields and prairie. Because the turbines are so out-of-proportion to the landscape, it’s hard to grasp their scale until you see what looks like a toy pickup truck standing …
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Kansas must move fast to harness wind energy boom, experts say (The Wichita Eagle)