Daily Archive for July 19th, 2008

Kirkwood plans major investment in wind power

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Mike Styles
on July 19, 2008
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Kirkwood Mountain Resort in California has decided to tackled the renewable energy crisis first hand by signing a letter of intent with Reno-based Synergy Power Corporation to install 20 wind turbines, each about 40m (20ft) high including turbine blades.

They plan to be operational by 2010. The turbines could provide up to 6,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity daily to the resort between them, a fifth of the resort’s power needs.

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All-weather ski slopes come to Italian resort

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Mike Styles
on July 19, 2008
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Grass skiing which had experienced some amount of popularity in many places in the world including North America during the 70’s is making a come back in Europe.

Neveplast has installed two Tubby slopes for year-round tubing at the Italian ski resort of Mottarone. One of the slopes runs straight and is 90 meters long, the other is 100 meters long and contains multiple turns.

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