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Clean wind power to help boost dirty nuclear weapons in USA

Nuclear Wind The government’s largest wind farm is to be used to generate electricity for atomic bombs. TIME By Mark Thompson @MarkThompson_DCAug. 14, 2013 The Obama Administration is building the nation’s biggest wind farm to generate electricity to help…assemble the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

It’s boasting of the great environmental stewardship the project represents – breezes for bombs? — and has contracted with Siemens USA, the American subsidiary of a German company, for the wind turbines at the heart of the operation.

The government broke ground Tuesday for the Pantex Renewable Energy Project. When finished next summer, it will include five 2.3 megawatt wind turbines on 1,500 acres of government-owned property east of the Pantex plant in the Texas panhandle…….

The wind farm “will be funded by the energy savings guaranteed by Siemens,” Pantex says – an estimated $50 million over 18 years.

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2013/08/14/nuclear-wind/#ixzz2c5WBzzzc

August 15, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable, USA