Iowans & Sustainable Resource

NPR's health and Science page

solar power page:

Wholesale distributor DC Power Systems can answer your questions about thin-film PV and help you locate the closest dealer.
Learn how much power you can generate with a PV system at your location and find the electric utility rates for your area at www.pvwatts.org.
Find out what loans, rebates and other incentives your state offers for a variety of renewable energy options at www.dsireusa.org.
The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners Web site lists certified installers of solar power systems.
Experienced solar experts Rex A. Ewing and Doug Pratt lay outthe fundamental information you need for selecting a simple solar or wind system for your home in their book, Got Sun? Go Solar.

EVER WONDER HOW A REAL-LIFE NUCLEAR FUEL ACCIDENT WOULD BE HANDLED? Wonder no more. Last September, a truck en route from an Exxon uranium mill in Wyoming to a processing plant in Oklahoma overturned on a rural highway and spilled 10,000 pounds of radioactive "yellow-cake" (uranium oxide) onto the road. Health officials didn't arrive until 12 hours later ... cleanup was not initiated until three days after the accident ... and Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials waited a full week to visit the site. Meanwhile, the surrounding area's background radiation level increased 44-fold.

Airborne wind turbine
Atmospheric icing
Cape Wind Project
Darrieus wind turbine
Domestic energy consumption; supplies energy requirement numbers for private homes which is needed for anyone thinking of installing his own (small-scale) wind turbine
Electrical generator
Green energy

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