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Actually, they’re calling this misbegotten piece of political theater the No More Solyndras Act, but it amounts to the same thing.

Because one solar power company failed (mostly because subsidies for Chinese solar power companies dropped the price of solar to the point that they couldn’t make a profit), the GOP says there should be NO further subsidies for ANY solar power companies.

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And ironically comes on the heels of the GOP’s insistence on KEEPING subsidies for big oil – the most profitable industry in the history of profits – even though the oil companies need subsidies like Mitt Romney’s wife needs a third Cadillac.

And ironically comes on the heels of a failed “clean coal” project, subsidized with the backing of Illinois Congressman John Shimkus, one of the backers of the anti-solar push.

(Huaneng Renewables will take 17 of the SL6000 model. Photograph: Sinove)

Sinovel, China’s largest wind turbine maker, will put a set of 6-megawatt (mw) wind turbines into operation off the coast of Shanghai in what is claimed to be the world’s first large-scale commercial application of such powerful offshore wind turbines.

Sinovel will supply Huaneng Renewables, a leading Chinese wind farm developer, with17 units of 6-mw offshore wind turbines in the first stage of a pilot offshore wind farm in the Lingang sea area of Shanghai, Sinovel said on Thursday. (People’s Daily Online)

Wind turbine in Ultimo, Part II

The wind turbine we referred to in an earlier post has been installed on top of a roof at Sydney Institute TAFE in Ultimo. According to Sydney Institute TAFE, via Twitter:

“It’s a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine. It’s locked as it’s not complete.”

“along with solar power on two buildings is being installed, for training in renewable energy and energy efficiency.”

Thanks for clearing that up!