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IEEE Spectrum July 2012 Vaclav Smil	A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along
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Fast Company September 2013 Jon Gertner	FloDesign's Jet-Engine Turbine Will Change The Way You Think About Wind Power If FloDesign's business plan falls short in the next few years, the company's fate would be all the more bitter, since the potential seems so large. People love the idea of a radical new clean-energy technology.
IEEE Spectrum December 2012 Robert Creighton	The Benefits of Airborne Wind Energy Tower-mounted wind turbines dot the landscape, but airborne systems offer some surprising advantages. My company uses kites to generate electrical power from the wind. Such airborne wind-energy systems offer many advantages over standard wind turbines.
Salon.com January 24, 2001 Dawn MacKeen	Disaster in the Galapagos It may take years to measure the ecological destruction caused by the oil spill near Darwin's outdoor laboratory...
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Karl Stahlkopf	Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation?
IDB America December 2004 Roger Hamilton	Man and Nature on the Galapagos Cooperation is beginning to replace competition in an innovative effort to protect the shrine of modern evolutionary theory.
IDB America January 2005 Roger Hamilton	Search and Destroy in the Galapagos Inspectors battle ecological imperialism at the islands' airports and docks.
IDB America December 2004 Roger Hamilton	Finally, Some Respect How a tiny Ecuadorean archipelago came to receive perhaps more attention than it can handle.
Real Travel Adventures May 2006 Ron Kapon	Seventieth Birthday Trip To South America: Part 3 While in Ecuador, visit the Galapagos Islands, Santa Ana Hill, and other wonderful gems in this country.
IDB America January 2005 Roger Hamilton	The Trail Less Traveled Getting tourist dollars into the pockets of local people is part of the strategy to protect nature on the Galapagos. Boosting local tourism can help to ensure the long-term protection of the islands.
Popular Mechanics July 9, 2009 Matt Molnar	10 Wind Turbines That Push the Limits of Design Ingenious designs, plus where to find them and how they work.
BusinessWeek June 26, 2008 Adam Aston	The War Over Offshore Wind Is Almost Over It's no longer if, but when, where, and how many wind farms will go up along the U.S. coast.
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Real Travel Adventures August 2009 Neely & Neely	Channel Islands National Park and Marine Reserve This is a National Treasure, protected for us and future generations to enjoy. Each island has unique landscape and wildlife native to it.
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IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Willie D. Jones	Ocean Power Catches a Wave Europe and New Zealand to install commercial generators, but U.S. slow to respond.
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IEEE Spectrum October 2006 Willie D. Jones	I've Got the Power Backyard wind turbines turn energy consumers into suppliers. Tremendous demand and a federal production tax credit for makers of large turbines make utility-scale wind a good business to be in right now for GE.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Offshore Wind: An Untapped Energy Source Wind is now the world's fastest growing energy source.
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Glenn Zorpette	Re-engineering Iraq U.S. and Iraqi officials have spent billions on restoring Iraq's electrical system. So why is Baghdad getting just six hours of electricity a day?
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2007 Jennifer Bogo	How the Deadliest Wind Farm Can Save the Birds: Green Machines Dealing with the alarming wildlife death rates in the already struggling field of U.S. wind energy.
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BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Laura Cohn	Wind Power Has A Head Of Steam A big North Sea project highlights the upside of turbine technology in England.
Scientific American February 2006 Michael Shermer	It's Dogged as Does It Retracing Darwin's footsteps in the Galapagos shatters a myth but reveals how revolutions in science actually evolve
Popular Mechanics December 2009 Jennifer Bogo	Why Texans See Green Gold in Renewable Resources As America's petroleum heartland, Texas isn't known for being environmentally sensitive. But its oil-boom, energy savvy attitude could put the state in a surprising position -- leading the charge to alternative energy in the U.S.
Wired February 2007 John Geoghegan	Inherit the Wind The Gulf Coast is littered with the carcasses of unused oil equipment. Now those structures are being re-purposed to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States.
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Geotimes August 2005 David Pimentel	Weighing in on Renewable Energy Efficiency With our supply of fossil fuels running out, the author tells us about alternative energy sources: biomass, biodiesel, hydroelectric, wind, hydrogen and photovoltaics. He ends with comments on the European lifestyle.
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Outside April 2005 Julian Smith	Galapagos Rising This exotic archipelago used to be the sole domain of Darwin fanatics. Not anymore. More than 90,000 tourists visited the Galapagos in 2003, an increase of 31 percent from 2000.
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IndustryWeek May 19, 2010 Peter Alpern	Is Green the New Gold? Despite the recession, solar and wind energy markets continue to show compelling growth. Manufacturers have taken notice.
Popular Mechanics December 11, 2008 Andrew Moseman	Can Offshore Grids Solve Our Wind Power Woes? The European Commission met last month to discuss connecting their growing supply of offshore wind power with a grid spanning the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Mediterranean Sea.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2003 John Teresko	GE's Growing Bet -- Wind Power With a new prototype turbine rated at 3.6 megawatts, GE Wind Energy prepares for growth in 'green' power.
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