$1.2 Billion Secured for What Will Be the Largest US Wind Farm

Terra-Gen Power just secured a whopping 1.2 billion dollars in financing to up the ante on United States wind farms . With this latest round of cash they’ll be adding 570 megawatts of capacity to their Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California to bring the total capacity up to a mega-impressive 3,000 megawatts making it the largest wind farm in the United States. The farm should be completed and ready for juicing the grid with renewable energy by the first and second quarters of 2011.

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$1.2 Billion Secured for What Will Be the Largest US Wind Farm

Massive Robot Elephant Cobbled Together with Reclaimed Materials

We’ve explored the joys of recycled robots before, but never any quite as elephantine as, well… this giant elephant. Built in France as part of the Machines of the Isle of Nantes, an art and culture show full of dream and fantasy, the 12 meter high x 8 meter wide mechanical elephant was cobbled together using 45 tons of reclaimed wood and steel.

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Massive Robot Elephant Cobbled Together with Reclaimed Materials