Mosaic | Crop Nutrition - Trusted Crop Nutrition Expertise℠ Do wind turbines cause health problems? " Wind power accounts for about 1 percent of the electricity produced in the United States [source: Gillam]. Nearly 25,000 wind turbines crank out power throughout the country. These massive windmills -- up to 80 feet (24 meters) tall -- capture the energy in wind and convert it into free-flowing electrons that people can use to run dishwashers, air conditioning and lights. That 1 percent may not sound like much until you realize that wind power is just catching on in the United States. Huge new wind farms accounting for thousands more megawatts of capacity are in development as we speak, and estimates put 20 percent of the nation's electricity coming from wind power by 2030 [source: The Oregonian]. The European Union hopes to reach that percentage even sooner -- by 2020. Until recently, there were three main issues regarding the possible downsides of wind power: bird and bat deaths, cost, and disrupting the appearance of natural landscapes.
Move Your Money UK - Bank On Something Better Maddison Project The Maddison Project has been initiated in March 2010 by a group of close colleagues of Angus Maddison, with the aim to support an effective way of cooperation between scholars to continue Maddison's work on measuring economic performance for different regions, time periods and subtopics. The Maddison Project database presented below builts on Angus Maddison's original dataset. The original estimates are kept intact, and only revised or adjusted when there is more and better information available. Angus Maddison's unaltered final dataset remains available on the Original Maddison Homepage. New Maddison Project Database The Maddison Project has launched an updated version of the original Maddison dataset in January 2013. Maddison Project Structure The project consists of a two tier structure: A small working party of four persons who will coordinate the actual work to integrate and bring new estimates together and to update the output and population series on a regular basis.
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) CO2 Budget Trading Program - Welcome FairPensions Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 - Results You can now embed three different sizes of the above map in your site. Just click the size you want using the buttons below and copy the iframe code that appears in the box. Paste this into your site where you'd like the map to show up and voila! The Corruption Perceptions Index 2013 serves as a reminder that the abuse of power, secret dealings and bribery continue to ravage societies around the world. The Index scores 177 countries and territories on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). No country has a perfect score, and two-thirds of countries score below 50. The world urgently needs a renewed effort to crack down on money laundering, clean up political finance, pursue the return of stolen assets and build more transparent public institutions. It is time to stop those who get away with acts of corruption. – Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International In the table above, CI refers to Confidence Interval. download our CPI information package.
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