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Opinion:

¶ Politicians take note: Iowa is the US’s most wind-powered state – and everyone loves it! • Wind supplies 30% of the state’s power, more than any other US state. Windpower also gets real bipartisan support in Iowa. A recent poll taken by Public Opinion Strategies shows an 85% approval rating. [The Ecologist]

Wind power in Iowa, where it’s big, getting bigger, and everyone loves it. Photo: Andrew Huff via Flickr (CC BY-NC).

¶ Nuclear renaissance? Failing industry is running flat out to stand still • Ten new power reactors began supplying electricity last year (eight of them in China), and eight reactors were permanently shut down. In 1995 there were 434 ‘operable’ reactors. In 2005 there were 441, and now there are 439. [The Ecologist]

Science and Technology:

¶ A new design from Sandia National Laboratories, for wind turbines with gigantic blades longer than…