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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12147)	5/16/2011 7:43:48 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 24225

Harvesting Utah’s urban winds by Cathy L. Hartman, Edwin R. Stafford, Sandra Reategui Donna Barry/Utah State University Wind turbines at the Spanish Fork wind project in Utah. The wind farm is one of the most urban in the nation, with the city’s industrial and residential areas just to the west of the wind park. In Brief Utah’s first commercial wind power project, located in the city of Spanish Fork, faced stiff opposition at every turn. Developers had to deal with changing and inconsistent city and state policies, siting and pricing roadblocks, a fickle investor, and resistance from nearby residents—virtually all at the same time. The success story in Spanish Fork provides some lessons for how to get urban communities to accept and encourage local wind energy development. energybulletin.net

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (12147)	5/16/2011 7:47:50 PM
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Entropy, peak oil, and Stoic philosophy by Ugo Bardi I had plenty of time for my talk at the conference “Peak Oil: fact or fiction?” held in Barbastro (Spain) on May 4-7 2011. So, I could ramble a little on various subjects, from the entropy of complex systems to the stoic philosophy of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (above). Perhaps too many things but, in any case, here is a version written from memory where I tried to maintain the tone and the content of my talk energybulletin.net