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 Posted: Tue Sep 15th, 2009 06:31 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0915/p06s01-woeu.html

Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy in Europe - making up a third of new energy, with 20 turbines added every working day in 2008, according to EU statistics. What the European wind energy industry now wants is to expand - offshore. Ocean winds are a stronger and more predictable form of energy than the ones on land, and the industry is pushing a $57 billion investment to allow broad-winged turbines to spin at sea. (csmonitor.com)