Guidelines for wind farms.The federal government should devise national policies to maximize In a graphical environment, to enlarge a window to the full size of the screen. See Win Maximize windows. the benefits of wind farms while lessening their environmental impact, concludes a report from the National Research Council. Such policies would provide much-needed guidance for regional and loom loom, frame or machine used for weaving; there is evidence that the loom has been in use since 4400 B.C. Modern looms are of two types, those with a shuttle (the part that carries the weft through the shed) and those without; the latter draw the weft from a ] governments planning wind-energy projects, the May 3 report says. Wind energy provided less than 1 percent of the United States' electricity last year, but the Department of Energy projects that wind's contribution will rise to 2 to 7 percent over the next 15 years. Congress asked the committee that produced the report to evaluate the environmental effects, both good and bad, of wind turbines. On the plus side, the report estimates that wind energy could offset about 4.5 percent of U.S. emissions emissions npl → émissions fpl emissions npl → Emissionen pl of carbon dioxide carbon dioxide, chemical compound, CO2, a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas that is about one and one-half times as dense as air under ordinary conditions of temperature and pressure. from electricity generation by 2020. But, the committee notes concern that rapid expansion of wind farms could harm bird and bat populations. It calls for more research, such as tracking animal numbers and migration corridors, to clarify (company) Clarify - A software vendor, specialising in Customer Relationship Management software. Nortel Networks sold Clarify to Amdocs in 2002. http://amdocsclarify.com/. the risks. The report also recommends that developers conduct wildlife-impact studies before constructing new wind farms. |
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