Great use of funds to help educate for the fiels. One day I love to see this go on in Racine.
New Addition To Iowa Lakes C.C. Wind Studies Center Is Dedicated
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by NAW Staff on Wednesday 16 December 2009
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The new $550,000 addition to the Sustainable Energy Education Center/Wind Energy and Turbine Technology building on the Estherville, Iowa, campus of Iowa Lakes Community College has been officially dedicated.
KCUA-TV reports that the new 6,200 square-foot addition is ready for the spring semester, which begins on Jan. 14. Financing for the facility was paid, in part, with a $350,000 loan from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"This addition provides state-of-the-art technology for our wind energy students and allows them to learn necessary skills for the wind industry in a controlled environment prior to working on wind turbines," says Valerie Newhouse, college president. "The addition allowed the college to accept two more sections of students into the wind energy program."
SOURCE: KCUA-TV
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Wayne, Please look into how much of a subsidy wind energy will require in Wisconsin, and amount of the energy used to build parts, transport them, install and maintain. Also, please look into the families who say their property has lost value due to a nearby wind farm. And others say their health or their animals' health is affected. This is not to mention the ruined views and bird deaths in the wake of wind farms.
Even if we prefer clean energy, wind is no simple, efficient fix to energy problems and appears to cause more problems than it is worth, IMHO.
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