Worlds largest onshore wind farm (909 megawatts) to be built in Oregon

Finally some good news.

It seems funny that something we've always had and always will have hasn't played a bigger role in electricity manufacture before. Is it possible, all you brilliant scientists out there to harness the pull of gravity. It always pulls, couldn't this generate some harnessable energy. As well I've always wondered if the hot air masses and cold air masses could generate some energies when they shift. What about low and high pressure systems???? Sorry, I have a lot of questions for all the brilliant people on here!!!

if the government aka the amerikan people would have listened to the 'hippies' back in the 70's who knew that a partnership with mother earth was the only path, then we would not be in the current crisis over oil. instead the reaction was to arrest convict and incarcerate. Brazil listened back then and now have no imported oil dependency. what is it that keeps amerika the least progressive country in the world, capitalist religious fanatics?

progressive.

I love it!

yay for oregon, they need change!

The winds of change are in the air of a state constantly leading the green movement-congrats Oregon! The elements surrounding us are just waiting to be converted into the energy we rely so heavily upon. Hopefully individuals & communities will become the caretakers for this long over due sustainable energy while eliminating the monopolistic middlemen. Now is the time we need the gov’t to truly embrace & encourage further development of non fossil fuel based energy given the price of oil these days. Instead of watching potential investment money go up in smoke, there is no better time to finally develop alternative energy sources to their fullest potential. No more drilling for oil-period!

on another note, relating to the northwest oil fields o.k. so say you love black gold as much as dick cheney,
then chew on this idea.....The land oil companies want to drill belongs to the taxpayers. the land we've already leased to the oil companies belongs to the taxpayer!! (that they won't drill)-as brian sullivan put it on studio b with shepard smith (fox news) today july 30th-the reason oil companies won't drill is because there is not enough profits to be made by drilling those leases. Now the oil companies you love so much don't give a rats ass about the American people!! clearly they only care about profits!! So what i propose to you, and i want to hear your opinion, is since the taxpayers own the land and the oil already, Why doesn't the united states government (me and you) invest in our own rigs to drill the oil! With the government owned rigs and oil being sold back to the American people at a fair cost, revenue from the oil could go back into social securities, education and paying off some of the debt put on the taxpayer by the bush admin. I bet you and your oil friends would not like the American people drilling and controlling our own oil would you? kinda cuts out your haliburton and Carlyle middle men doesn't it. In phoenix my friend works at a state owned star bucks coffee shop in a hospital, all the revenue from the coffee shop goes back into the community, if our government is in the business of coffee then why not oil. if the government (taxpayers) bought those rigs i would be all for tapping Alaska to save America from certain bankruptcy, but not to make more dick chenies price gouge their way into billionaires from taxpayer oil and on the taxpayer dime!! lets stop paying terrorist whether foreign, or Texas grown for our energy and lets take back whats rightfully ours!! Rebuild our economy w/ government energy projects.. and quit funneling away our countries assets to people who care less about America!! p.s. Washington state is looking to build a giant geothermal power plant, I'll try to find the story and repost it!!

In 1928 Herbert Hoover said “A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage” Maybe our next president will be able to say “ a solar panel on every rooftop and a windmill in every yard”

Keep on building these wind energy infrastucture. We need a lot of that.

god bless the northwest!!

Brilliant: we need to fill up as much available space as we can with these wind farms, think of all the energy we could get from the windy polar regions.

This trumps T Boone's 735 megawatt planned wind farm.
We still need viable ways to store or transport green energies like this. Imagine where we'd be had we invested in wind and solar long ago.

this is GRRRRRREAT!

Good news!

If this pace keeps up we'll only by 10 years beyond the rest of the world by 2009 in terms of renewable energy production.

Hopefully with Obama in office we'll be able to pick the pace a little and jump start some of these alt energy programs.

finally

lets get wound up, make change happen...!!!!!!!!

where are the rest

Its time. The sun light that reaches the earth in one minute produces enough energy to power the whole world for a year.
Its time.
The wind blows on and on.

leaps and bounds.!!!!