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NJ: We'll Become a World Leader in Wind Power

Posted October 07, 2008 10:01 AM

From Yahoo! News: Science News:

New Jersey is powering up an ambitious plan to become a world leader in the use of wind-generated energy. Gov. Jon Corzine wants the Garden State to triple the amount of wind power it plans to use by 2020 to 3,000 megawatts. That would be 13 percent of New Jersey's total energy, enough to power between 800,000 to just under 1 million homes.

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Re: NJ: We'll Become a World Leader in Wind Power

10/08/2008 7:09 AM

I do understand that New Jersey has more than its fair share of politicians.

Thus it could easily become the world capital for wind power.

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