Headline News:
- “Former Croplands Could Be ‘Sweet Spot’ For Renewable Energy Production” • Researchers mapped American croplands that have fallen out of production in hopes of inspiring new uses for them, such as for renewable energy. Roughly 30 million acres of croplands in the US have been abandoned since the 1980s, a recent paper says. [MSN]
Farmland (Vladimir Kudinov, Unsplash)
- “Mingyang Installs 20-MW Turbine” • Mingyang Smart Energy installed its 20-MW offshore wind turbine in China. The turbine has been installed onshore by the coast. It has a rotor diameter of 260-292 meters. According to Mingyang, at an average wind speed of 8.5 meters per second the MySE 18.X-20 MW turbine can generate 80 GWh annually. [reNews]
- “Nation Helps Drive Global Transition To Green Energy” • From 2014 to 2023, the share of nonfossil fuels in global energy consumption rose from 13.6% to 18.5%, with China accounting for 45.2% of the increase. Today, China is collaborating with more than 100 countries and regions on green energy projects, a white paper noted. [People’s Daily Online]
- “First Wind Lease Sale Offshore Oregon” • The Department of the Interior announced that it will hold an offshore wind energy lease sale off southern Oregon. The two areas to be auctioned on October 15, 2024, by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management could generate more than 3.1 GW if fully developed and could power about a million homes. [CleanTechnica]
- “Trump Bizarrely Claims People Have Stopped Eating Bacon Because Of Wind Power” • While taking questions at his latest campaign speech in Wisconsin, Donald Trump bizarrely claimed people don’t eat bacon anymore because of wind power. “You can always tell when Trump goes off teleprompter,” one person wrote on X/Twitter. [Yahoo]
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