Wind Farm Technician
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Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability
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Product Description
Winds complete through the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Trundle of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to the declining rural communities of the medial United States. Nowhere is wind’s promise more palpable than in Cloud County, Kansas, where the soaring turbines of the Meridian Way Wind Till the soil contract are boosting incomes and bringing green jobs to a community that has, for decades, watched its children heap away.In Harvest the Wind, Philip Warburg brings readers face-to-visage with the people behind the green economy–powered resurgence in Cloud County and communities like it across the In accord States. This corner of Kansas is the first stop on an odyssey that introduces readers to farmers, mill workers, biologists, and high-tech entrepreneurs—all players in a transformative effort that is taking hold across America and around the globe.
In this illuminating book, Warburg reveals both the unforgettable growth of a breakthrough technology and the formidable challenges it faces. He visits epicenters of anti-wind resistance as well as communities that have embraced wind farms as neighbors. He guides readers through an Iowa turbine construction plant that is struggling to compete in a global marketplace dominated by European and Chinese manufacturers. And he looks at the thousands of miles that wind-generated power will constraint to travel to reach American consumers.
Harvest the Wind is an earthly antidote to loftier treatises on broad warming and green energy. By showing us how practical solutions are being implemented at the local be upfront with, Warburg offers an inspirational look at how we can all pursue a saner and more sustainable energy later—while at the same time investing in the nation’s infrastructure and jumpstarting its economy.
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