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Iowa student makes case for larger wind turbines

• • Posted 2013-05-27 15:10:30

Grant Schmitz can’t remember exactly what triggered his interest in engineering. But it might have been family vacations to Colorado as a child. Schmitz, now 24, can remember traveling there from his home in Audubon, Iowa, in the late 1990s and walking over the Royal Gorge Bridge. He was fascinated with how one of the world’s highest suspension bridges, at more than 950 feet above ground, could safely span the gorge. [ read more … ]

Turbine Plans Unnerve Fans of Condors in California

By FELICITY BARRINGER, New York Times • • Posted 2013-05-27 15:10:11

The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came on Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges if the blades killed a single condor, environmental groups expressed grave concern. [ read more … ]

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	May 27, 2013
Iowa student makes case for larger wind turbines • • Posted 2013-05-27 15:10:30 Grant Schmitz can’t remember exactly what triggered his interest in engineering. But it might have been family vacations to Colorado as a child. Schmitz, now 24, can remember traveling there from his home in Audubon, Iowa, in the late 1990s and walking over the Royal Gorge Bridge. He was fascinated with how one of the world’s highest suspension bridges, at more than 950 feet above ground, could safely span the gorge. [ read more … ] Turbine Plans Unnerve Fans of Condors in California By FELICITY BARRINGER, New York Times • • Posted 2013-05-27 15:10:11 The California condor’s slow 20-year climb back from the brink of extinction has long been a fragile not-quite-success story in the conservation world. So when the news came on Friday that developers of a wind-energy project near the Mojave Desert would not face criminal charges if the blades killed a single condor, environmental groups expressed grave concern. [ read more … ] Note: News clips provided do not necessarily reflect the views of coalition or its member governors.
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