An interested Bowie resident forwarded me the URL for this website: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/07/colossal_magnet.php. It's a local Cochise county company in Sierra Vista that is developing maglev wind turbine power generators. It's a great idea, a big improvement over standard windmills, using technology that has been tested and used successfully in Asia for many years. It can generate more electricity in less than 100 acres than conventional windmills can generate in 64,000 acres, and without polluting.
From their website:
The Maglev Wind Turbine Power Plant contributes to the reduction of pollution by eliminating our dependency of fossil fueled power plants. Since carbon dioxide is absorbed by trees, our Maglev Wind Turbine Power Plant can offset as much as 1,750,000 acres of forest. Another analogy used, is to equate the energy generated by our Power Plant to the amount generated by a barrel of oil. Maglev Wind Turbine Power Plant can generate the same amount of energy annually as 5,475,000 barrels of oil.
MAGLEV WIND TURBINE will offset emissions (pollution) from other regional sources of electricity. If we do not install our Power Plant and generate approximately 8.75 TWh of renewable energy annually, the same amount of energy generated from oil, coal or natural gas would create the following estimated emissions :
8.7 Billion pounds of Carbon Dioxide
18,000,000 pounds of Nitrogen Oxides
50,400,000 pounds of Sulfur Dioxide
* Based on location and wind velocity estimates
Data Source for Emissions Calculated: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database http://www.epa.gov/cleanenergy/egrid/pdfs/state.pdf
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