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- BeShirtHappy, on 11/07/2008, -2/+11Good news that BP is investing more in wind and even better news that they're moving it to the U.S.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -1/+6BP getting Greener!
- xexx, on 11/08/2008, -1/+5Even if they imported them, it'd be a one time thing, someone still has to put em up and take care of them, and you can't outsource that.
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4Greener and Greener!
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+4And in a single night the USA regained preeminent nation status. The Obama Bull begins now.
- John213, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3BP is a state run monopoly?
- mrhahn, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3Not for those of us in the UK...
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3The country is already covered by a thick layer of Obama Bull.
- hiPpymIck, on 11/08/2008, -0/+3and heres why theyre moving..
(.. unbelievable amounts of red tape - local opposition - difficulties connecting to the grid - spiraling costs)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/19/ ...
UK seems to be showing the rest of the world how not to do wind power - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Lot of hot air coming out of Washington these days, and it stinks.
Don't let that energy go to waste BP. - inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Wine said there are also existing regulatory frameworks in the U.S. that are helpful, both to boost development and to provide incentives.
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It is all Bush's fault! Oh, wait.... - rif42, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I think it means 1GW capacity installed by BP in the whole year.
Just for the record, in the first 9 month of 2008 US installed 4.2GW wind turbine capacity.
The world wind turbine capacity passed the 100GW mark sometime in the spring 2008. - im2green, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3Possibly?… Foreign governments OWN state run monopoly, buying up United States properties and profiting (for ever) by exploiting our own abundant, never depleting, green natural resources. = US FAIL
- warriorscot, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Always was pretty green, they either funded or developed allot of the green technologies that have been around since the 80s, BP had a big part in developing the solar panel.
People think they are an oil company but they actually aren't they have sold allot of that side of their business recently, they are an energy company. - Taiyoryu, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Vestas is establishing wind turbine manufacturing in Colorado. Colorado is centrally located for shipping anywhere in the country, plenty of land left for large scale development, and access to both highways and railroads.
- warriorscot, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2If GE make cheaper better turbines BP will buy them, they already buy GE steam turbines.
- inactive, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2US has roughly a current Nuclear production of 100GW, which is 20% of total grid power.
In short a long way to go but it is a start. - hiPpymIck, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3not neccessarily according to this article
http://mendocoastcurrent.wordpress.com/2008/11/04/ ...
Maytag is gone in large part because of the calculus driving globalization: household appliances and so many other goods are now produced mostly where physical labor is cheaper, in countries like China and Mexico.
But wind turbines and blades are huge and heavy. The TPI plant is in Iowa largely because of the costs of shipping such huge items from far away. - bogdon6, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I can put it in layman's terms.
There's a lot of wind in the U.S., but more importantly, the subsidies for wind are better, making it easier to make money. http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/two-oil-compan ... - lampshade101, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2Exxon, Shell TAKE A HINT!
- lampshade101, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2I think that the UK needs a prime minister with a set of balls, and a parliament not afraid to remove red tape.
- martoq, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2"It's a big place with a lot of wind..."
Their putting a wind farm in DC? - brandita, on 11/08/2008, -1/+3Now they can power their oil refineries with wind! How ironic.
- Murdats, on 11/08/2008, -0/+2well i would figure that he means by the end of this year they will have enough wind farms installed to produce 1GW of power, and then 3 times that (as in 3 GW) in a couple of years.
- kthoma22, on 11/08/2008, -2/+3America ***** YEAH
- alexkball, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Quite a few of my friends who don't know what BP stands for, or if they do, think the company's name is "Beyond Petroleum" because of the company's advertisements. It's really a remarkably sharp marketing approach considering "typical American" consumer's generally xenophobic feelings about foreign countries profiting from the oil industry.
- jcounterman, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2BP might be based in the UK, but they employ thousands of people in the United States, and they will employ more with this project.
- Nudar, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1We regained preeminent nation status by having a British company build wind farms?
- Nudar, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1If your friends do know then why would they call it Beyond Petroleum? The advertisements I've seen refer to it as Best Product and yes I know what BP actually stands for.
- steviesteveo, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Clear SEO spam here - this user is trying to pad a blog's search result - Digg users shouldn't let this abuse happen
- throop77, on 11/08/2008, -0/+1Except its 10 times the cost of nuclear power. So how much does waste does a large nuclear power plant produce in a year? 1 cubic meter. Cheap, environmentally friendly... what more do you want from a power source?
- Amazetbm, on 11/09/2008, -0/+1It could be a British conspiracy to recolonize the U.S.
/sarcasm. - th3heretic, on 11/08/2008, -1/+2FTA: “By the end of this year, we should have about 1 GW of wind farms installed capacity, and three times that within a couple of years," Thats not the 1.21GW we need !
- th3heretic, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1Its not the necessary 1.21 GW :(
- TonyCubed, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1Still now powerful enough to power my DeLorian.
- edebolt, on 11/08/2008, -1/+1just in time for ~$40 oil and alternative energy stock crash. Whoopieeee sell BP
- im2green, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Yes… well technically the Queen owns British Petroleum
- BlindDefender, on 11/07/2008, -3/+3In My Opinion...Are some of Obama's green jobs already blowing in?...
"President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to invest $150 billion in alternative energy over the next decade." - im2green, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Here’s why they are moving to the USA- ‘There is no urgency to build in their own county’ British Petroleum wants to lock up as much of the US production as possible. Do you really think England can’t mandate wind power on their own territories, if they choose to?
- AgmLauncher, on 11/09/2008, -2/+1Working for foreign companies does not help us in the long run...
- Betrayal, on 11/08/2008, -2/+1“It’s a big place and it’s got a lot of wind"
Are they talking about the warm farts coming from the Bush administration? They'll be blown off soon. - marshallpeck, on 11/08/2008, -3/+1“By the end of this year, we should have about 1 GW of wind farms installed capacity, and three times that within a couple of years,”
What the hell does that mean? - AgmLauncher, on 11/08/2008, -4/+2"President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to invest $150 billion in alternative energy over the next decade......
.....in foreign companies like BP, sending even more of our greenbacks outside of our borders never to be seen again"
Ideally BP would buy GE wind turbines, but they won't. They'll just import them from the Netherlands or Germany, which makes all this talk about green jobs nothing but meaningless rhetoric. A country needs to provide for itself if it wants to determine its own standard of living. Its population can't simply work for foreign companies...
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