compressed air storage Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:12:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Four Companies to Build Wind Power Equivalent of Two Hoover Dams https://www.greenoptimistic.com/four-companies-build-wind-power-equivalent-two-hoover-dams-20141002/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/four-companies-build-wind-power-equivalent-two-hoover-dams-20141002/#respond Thu, 02 Oct 2014 11:15:37 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49358 The Hoover dam was finished in 1935 and started lighting up Los Angeles (including Hollywood), Las Vegas and several other cities in Southern California. Eight decades later, another gargantuan power project is being proposed to keep the lights shining for decades to come, this time using wind energy. The Southern California Public Power Authority, the […]

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