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Content Keyword RSS | March 12, 2009

Before the industrial revolution and the invention of electricity, communities all over the world had water mills that relied on river currents turning turbines (a wheel in the water) to produce products like flour, lumber and textiles. In fact, the water mill is an iconic form of the 18th and 19th centuries. Last night on the Discovery Channel, I learned about an alternative energy project curiously similar to the thinking behind old water mills: Putting turbines in rivers. The documentary

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Content Keyword RSS | March 10, 2009

MANISTIQUE - The Manistique City Council meeting room was filled with residents and local officials Monday. Most came to hear a presentation given by MSU Extension on alternative energy and its possible use in the city’s government buildings, local schools and other facilities.

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Content Keyword RSS | February 27, 2009

We have already talked about large alternative energy project in California, but it seems that Europe is also keeping up pace and is even trying to leave the US behind.

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Content Keyword RSS | February 26, 2009

National Geographic magazine’s current article on Alberta’s oil sands is little more than a glossy, seven-colour smear job on behalf of the environmental movement. No effort is made to offer any balance. From the article’s title — “Scraping Bottom” — to its exclusion of any positive images or comments about the sands, it is clear from the outset that the editors are interested only in hardening their 50 million readers against Canada’s largest energy project. There’s no arguing that extrac

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