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Texas: Wind Energy

December 28th, 2007 Comments

WindfarmDid you know that Texas leads the nation in wind energy production?   I didn’t either, even though USA Today reported on it back in 2006.

According to the American Wind Energy Association®, Texas inches out California by 400 MW.

AWEA’s annual rankings provide a standard reference for tracking the growth of wind power in the U.S. The rankings (as of December 31, 2006) are listed below (one megawatt of wind power produces enough electricity on average to serve 250 to 300 homes):

States with most wind energy installed, by capacity (MW)

1. Texas  2,768
 
2. California  2,361
 
3. Iowa 936
 
4. Minnesota 895
 
5. Washington 818
 

Texas is firmly established as the leader in wind power development, with over 2,700 MW installed at the end of 2006 and some 1,000 MW currently under construction.

Categories: Environment, Science, Texas

Twitter Down

December 28th, 2007 Comments

What’s the deal?  All the attention from the last couple of days finally get to you?

Twitter Down

The “twittersphere” is tweeting about the down time.

Categories: Tech, Web, twitter

Spellify 1.0 – An Automatic Text Field Spell Checker

December 28th, 2007 Comments

Spellify is a script.aculo.us/prototype based spell checker for form fields that utilizes Google as its spell check engine. Spellify version 1.0 has been released, officially taking the application out of beta and bringing it to prime time.

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Categories: Tech, Web