Another One Bites The Dust: Cost Of Wind Power Cancels Kansas Coal Facility Expansion
The plunging cost of wind power has forced the cancellation of a long planned expansion to the coal power generating facility in Holcomb, Kansas.
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Largest Coal-Fired Generating Plant West Of The Mississippi To Close In 2019
Three of the largest coal fired generating plants in the US will be closed before the end of 2019. But how much will replacing them with natural gas facilities do to protect the environment?
Solar Power & Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Coal Power In US
Originally published on the NRDC website (image added). WASHINGTON — It’s less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal-fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. In … [continued]
GE’s Brilliant Wind Turbine — Wind Power Cheaper Than Coal Or Natural Gas (Part 3)
This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on GE’s Brilliant 1.6-100 wind turbine. Check out Part 1 and Part 2 or the rest of our GE Brilliant Wind Turbine archives for more on the Brilliant 1.6-100 wind turbine. Big Data And The Industrial Internet Meet In The GE Brilliant 1.6-100 Impressively, … [continued]
What If…
I’ve had this one on my list for a long time. Finally got around to making the video […]
Full Cost of Coal $500 Billion/Year in U.S., Harvard Study Finds
Well, it doesn’t seem like Harvard Medical School will be getting any donations from the fossil fuel industry any time soon. A new study that is soon to be released and published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences authored by Dr. Paul Epstein, the Director of … [continued]
