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 Posted: Tue Aug 12th, 2008 04:01 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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http://cleantechnica.com/2008/08/11/us-kind-of-a-world-leader-in-wind-power-generation/

And things get worse for the US in light of Congress’s failure to re-extend the production tax credit (PTC). This credit, which once provided a 1.9-cent per kilowatt-hour benefit for the first ten years of a renewable energy facility’s operation, provided not only a benefit but an incentive to install such stations.

 

Hold on there.

The older technology is less efficent than the newer technology.

Here is old:



Here is new:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrT4X113imk

"extracts 3 to 4 times as much energy from the wind"

http://zfacts.com/p/447.html