Saturday, January 19, 2013

Siemens Tapped for Federal Government’s Largest Ever Wind Farm

If a sustainability-related contract could drip with irony, this one’s a regular Niagara Falls: Siemens Government Technologieswill construct the largest wind project ever undertaken by the federal government, and electricity from the wind turbines will account for more than 60 percent of the electricity needs of thePantex nuclear facility.
 If “Pantex” and “nuclear facility” don’t ring a bell, well, we had to look it up, too. It’s a high security installation near Amarillo, Texas, run by an agency of the Department of Energy called the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which conducts a set of interlocking missions related to nuclear weapons security and emergency response.[Triple Pundit]

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"...which conducts a set of interlocking missions related to nuclear weapons security and emergency response."

If the Federal government is considering the use of wind generated electric energy for our national defense, then I hope this nifty idea goes no further than preventing an attack by 18th century sailing ships. Otherwise we are in deep shit.

John Gault