America's Best Places For Alternative Energy


	America's Best Places For Alternative Energy
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7-14-2008 12:08 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9d75775a-21e8-42b6-8b1f-2a6853ed844f/72AAF400-ABD8-4A75-9C36-B4A730BFDF03/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html" href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.forbes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><B>America's Best Places For Alternative Energy</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html">William Pentland <SPAN class="mainartdate">07.09.08,
			 1:35 PM ET</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.forbes.com/img/2A4A02C4-A66C-4A15-82D0-4EE4734D2BF9" alt="pic" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD class="boxtext">                                    <B>In Pictures:</B>                                      				<A href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas_slide.html?thisSpeed=30000" linkindex="19" set="yes">			         America's Best Places For Alternative Energy                </A>                  </TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><P>The "cubic mile of oil"--a metric roughly equivalent to the amount of oil consumed worldwide each year--is frequently used to explain the challenge facing solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><P>So what would it take to replace the amount of energy in a cubic mile of oil? Roughly 4.2 billion solar rooftops, 300   million <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/07/03/energy-efficiency-electricity-biz-energy_cx_bw_wp_0707efficiency_grid.html?partner=lingospot">wind turbines</A>, 2,500 nuclear <A rel="nofollow" href="http://www.forbes.com/technology/ebusiness/2008/07/09/solar-power-economics-lead-cx_pldpts_0708mckinsey.html?partner=lingospot">power plants</A> or 200 Three Gorges Dams, according to Menlo Park, Calif., nonprofit research institute SRI International. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><P>In other words, no single category of renewable energy is growing anywhere near the speed it needs to bear the full brunt of displacing carbon-emitting fossil fuels anytime soon. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><H4>
<A href="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas_slide.html?thisSpeed=30000" linkindex="31" set="yes">In Pictures: America's Best Places For Alternative Energy</A>
</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/energy-solar-green-biz-energy-cx_bp_0709atlas.html"><P>While wind and solar sites may seem fairly obvious to most people, biomass and geothermal probably don't. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/72AAF400-ABD8-4A75-9C36-B4A730BFDF03/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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