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 		Windscapes: American Vistas Where Energy Is in the Air
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Infinite power from the wind is an American dream almost as old as the country itself, an idea that has entranced generations of scientists, artists and visionaries. In the early 19th century, when most labor was still done by human hands, an immigrant inventor named John Adolphus Etzler, pondering the windmills of his native Europe, sat down to scribble out some calculations. When he finished, he declared that wind power could be harnessed to liberate mankind from toil, providing as much energy as 40 trillion workers, or about 40,000 times earth’s population at that time. Imagine the glorious — and languorous — future that awaited!

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Click here to read this article in the New York Times Magazine
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· In Europe, offshore wind farm increased by 54%   (01/31/10)
· Report Predicts Offshore Wind Boom   (12/31/09)


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