Posted by: Ron Meador in media, clean energy on
Dec 31, 2008
Perhaps you saw it on the New York Times front page for December 26: "Solar Meets Polar as Winter Curbs Clean Energy." And under that headline, an article reporting that because of iced-up wind turbines, congealing biodiesel, and sun-blocking snow coating solar panels, wintertime "is no friend of renewable energy."
Minnesota's sales-tax amendment was one among several green-minded ballot measures around the country that won approval in Tuesday's elections.