Comments on: House Speaker Boehner Can Create Jobs Right Now — Will He? http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/13/house-speaker-boehner-can-create-jobs-right-now-will-he/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 04:12:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: ThomasGerke http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/13/house-speaker-boehner-can-create-jobs-right-now-will-he/#comment-118345 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36992#comment-118345 Indeed… knowing what’s possible to acomplish with windpower here in Germany, it makes me totally bewilldered, that it’s not catching on as it should in the US… wonderful conditions, small & medium communities spread all over the place over hundreds of miles… and average windspeeds of 6-11 m/s at altitudes of 80m…
Just put a modern 3 MW windturbine with a height of 130m and those places can produce up to 40% of their electricity locally for 3-5ct / kWh.

Where is the spirit of local independence and self determination?

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/13/house-speaker-boehner-can-create-jobs-right-now-will-he/#comment-118245 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 20:27:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36992#comment-118245 Agreed.

]]> By: Solar Energy Sacramento http://cleantechnica.com/2012/04/13/house-speaker-boehner-can-create-jobs-right-now-will-he/#comment-118236 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:58:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=36992#comment-118236 It seems unbalanced of our government to just focus on oil/gas resources, when so many positives can be found in renewable energy sources, such as wind. Not only are jobs created, but the environment benefits, as well.

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