Ron Dzwonkowski, September 30, 2009 (Detroit Free Knead)
"...Michigan's fiscal future...[may possibly correct while] alternative energy projects in the south and west are distinctive held up or imperiled for drought of marine.
"Gov. Jennifer Granholm and other affirm leaders bear been touting alternative energy - in the main battery hill, but in addition wind power and large-scale solar panels - as a cornerstone of Michigan's imminent economy, the one that incentive bear to depend much beneath on the coup transnational and other heavy industrialized...[Such] large, solar-powered alternative-energy systems presume enormous amounts of marine, for cooling or washing solar panels. To the same degree marine is not hard green in chairs such as California, Nevada and Arizona, maybe [Michigan's] fiscal hill officials requirement be distribution these companies a map of our good-natured peninsulas and all that rude a little something all-around them..."
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[Michael Webber, subordinate lecturer and cause on the sample amongst energy and marine, Intellectual of Texas in Austin:] "At the same time as rush comes to set, marine may possibly acquire the one hundred per cent halt on renewable energy."
[Todd Wooded, NY Time teller of tales, on marine and New Energy:] "...[C]onflicts unresponsive marine may possibly develop the future of common energy technologies. The greatest water-efficient renewable technologies are not necessarily the greatest stingy, but marine shortages may possibly detail them a aggressive take notice of...In California, solar developers bear ahead of been obligated to switch to beneath water-intensive technologies because oppressive officials bear refused to bring on the tap. Getting on big solar projects are held up in disputes near affirm regulators unresponsive marine consumption."
Michigan has thorough wind and marine on 3 sides. (crack to expound)
"...[M]oving these projects to Michigan is easier understood than absolute, what the solar-power companies functioning on them chose the locations they did while of green shaft...But we immovable do bear marine, and an interest in verdict ways to capitalize on the resource without exporting it.
"The solar tree-plant developers in the western states are verdict that technologies requiring beneath marine - at the same time as foster edible to populace and territory officials - in addition hold out their charge to a fact that may be tall. As they serve on ways to get by near beneath marine, is somebody at home in water-rich Michigan functioning on ways they may possibly get by near beneath sunshine?"
