Dr. Ken Rainwater, Professor and Director of the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech University joined us on Shades of Green Energy. Rainwater told how the center’s projects use wind power to pump and desalinate water and what it may mean for Texas towns facing problems with water depletion and shortages in the foreseeable [...]
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Wind power has been one of the fastest growing renewable energy power source in Texas since electric utility deregulation in 1999. Walter Hornaday discusses how he was inspired to go into the wind industry and some of his latest large wind power projects. Cielo Wind Power has installed over 16 percent of all the [...] Mike Sloan of PowerSmack.org discusses the 2020 Plan for electric generation and climate protection published by Austin Energy in November. The plan comes before the City Council on December 9, 2010. To visit Mike’s new site go to powersmack.org. Thinking Forward, while looking back 35 years! On the eve of Shades of Green’s fourth year of broadcasting, we spotlight Austin’s original Green exports to the planet at large: ‘CMPBS’ founders GAIL VITTORI & PLINY FISK… The ‘Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems’ is throwing a party Nov. 5th to celebrate ripples in the [...] We continue our energy series this week with WIND. In light of Deepwater Horizon and BP’s big mess in the Gulf, will windfarms get a boost? We talk to documentary producer Robbie Gemmel about the Cape Wind Project, a proposal to build the nation’s first offshore windfarm in Nantucket Sound. Drama has long [...] |
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