To some, the Obama administration's stimulus spending on everything from wind turbines to electric-car batteries was enlightened.
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Examples include motors, controls and other devices used in wind turbines, electric and hybrid vehicles, flat screen TVs, and military guided missiles.
Those with expertise in the automotive industry can apply their talents to wind turbine, Electric Vehicle (EV) and Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV) markets.
Well, how about investment in clean energy so that the solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars are built here in the United States?
BARCELONA, SPAIN - August 14, 2012 - Urban Green Energy (UGE) and GE (NYSE: GE) have unveiled the world's first integrated wind-powered electric vehicle charging station.
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And my administration has invested heavily in clean energy manufacturing, because I want to see the LEDs and solar panels and wind turbines and electric cars of tomorrow made right here in the U.S of A. I want them made right here.
Competitor GE Wind Energy, a unit of General Electric, ranked number one in wind turbines sales in the U.S. in 2009, according to a recent report from the American Wind Energy Association.
No, not from wind, battery and electric cars, but from oil and gas.
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Cornwall can already produce more than 80 megawatts (MW) of electricity from wind, hydro-electric, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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Google, which has made big investments in wind, solar and electric car technologies, has never been shy about using its brand to promote stronger clean tech policies.
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Environmental groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth would like to see a switch to renewable and clean sources of energy such as solar, wind and hydro-electric power.
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Clipper Windpower has struggled to compete against big wind turbine makers like General Electric, Siemens and Vestas.
Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers.
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Until last year, China provided some 97% of the REEs available in the world, which are used increasingly to fabricate the magnets in wind-turbines and in electric vehicles.
China already dominates global market share for electric batters, wind turbines, and solar panels, and is rapidly boosting its capacity to innovate and produce next-generation clean energy technologies.
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Adding wind power to the existing electric grid may not have the effect of reducing carbon emissions as much as expected, according to a new study published by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Rare earth minerals are now an important national policy issue as politicians and media pundits discover the fact that rare earth minerals are required to produce things like electric cars, wind turbines, guided missiles, and iPods.
Resource Capital has not realized a penny from its investment in Molycorp, which aims to produce rare earth minerals (used in things like electric cars, wind turbines and iPods) at a previously shuttered mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
Meanwhile, as California focuses upon wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, vast oil and gas resources remain undeveloped.
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There is also a need to develop as yet absent resources including electricity through hydro electric generation or possible wind generation.
China is now the largest exporter of solar panels and is fast expanding its capacity to produce wind turbines and advanced batteries for electric cars.
The innovative Sanya Skypump pairs UGE's cutting-edge vertical wind turbines with GE's electric vehicle (EV) charging technology to offer completely clean energy to power electric vehicles.
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Besides being used for hi-tech gadgets, the elements are also crucial for manufacturing low-carbon resources such as wind turbines, solar panels and electric cars, said David Danielson, the US assistant secretary for renewable energy.
Sharp thinks farms of these units, much like wind farms, will supply factories and electric utilities with power.
Clean energy technologies like wind, solar, nuclear, and electric vehicles are more expensive than carbon-intensive alternatives and suffer from limited performance and intermittency problems.
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The old church organ was replaced by a keyboard some years ago and the church makes use of young members who play electric guitars, violins and wind instruments.
NRG, meanwhile, has been ramping up its investments in solar and wind power as well as rolling out an electric car-charging network in the petro capital of Houston, of all places.
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Not to be outdone, England just flipped the switch on the world's largest wind farm, and in Paris, Schneider Electric set up kinetic energy-harvesting tiles that generate power from runners in the Paris Marathon.
The engineering requirement overall for CST, wind-power, new power distribution, electric transportation etc. is phenomenal and unprecedented, and while I marvel at the audacity of the proposal, I doubt very much that it can be done in time, if at all.
Yet, while we all enjoy reading articles about new gizmos, electric cars, space-age wind turbines, and of course, the latest advances in photovoltaics, these advancements represent only the surface of a much larger, systemic change in the way we will soon conduct business.
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