The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds will take to the skies over Casper on Sunday. Photo by U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, courtesy
Power lines stretch west toward the Absaroka Mountains along U.S. Highway 20-26 east of Dubois as the sun sets. Construction of more electrical transmission is one of the goals of the Western Governors' Association, meeting this week in Jackson Hole. Ken Driese, Star-Tribune correspondent.
Communications technician John Janski works on the wireless link between a thermal energy generator and a monitoring Web site Thursday afternoon at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center. Photo by Tim Kupsick, Star-Tribune
Gov. Dave Freudenthal examines one of the solar-and wind-powered stock water pumps the state is helping ranchers obtain as part of a pilot project. Photo by Bill Luckett/Casper Star-Tribune.
Steam rolls out of three of the four stacks on a recent cold day at Jim Bridger Power Plant near Rock Springs in Sweetwater County. Photo by Jeff Gearino, Casper Star-Tribune.
Ron D'Amato works to restore power on a telephone pole Monday, July 24, 2006, in St. Louis. Nearly a quarter-million homes and businesses still had no electricity Monday as the city struggled to recover from last week's devastating thunderstorms. (AP Photo/James A. Finley)
Efforts to beef up and modernize the grid are bogged in the myriad authorities shared by federal, state and local entities, a new report concludes. "The bottom line is if Western states want to retain a significant role in siting transmission for renewable fuels, things have got to change or the feds will take over," said James Holtkamp, manager of Holland & Hart's global climate change practice. (Courtesy/clipart.com)
Efforts to beef up and modernize the grid are bogged in the myriad authorities shared by federal, state and local entities, a new report concludes. "The bottom line is if Western states want to retain a significant role in siting transmission for renewable fuels, things have got to change or the feds will take over," said James Holtkamp, manager of Holland & Hart's global climate change practice. (Courtesy/clipart.com)
AP Photo/NASA This image shows the space shuttle Endeavour backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space on Thursday. A pair of spacewalking astronauts started putting together a robot outside the international space station early Friday despite a problem getting power to the giant machine. The logistics module for the Japanese Kibo laboratory is in Space Shuttle Endeavour's payload bay, the vertical stabilizer and the orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods are featured in this image photographed by a STS-123 crewmember.
Treasury Secretary John Snow, right, meets with the Finance Minister of Canada, James Flaherty, left, in Washington, Friday, April 21, 2006. (AP Photo/Mannie Garcia)
A group of 260-feet tall wind towers are silhoutted against a bright orange sky at the Elk River Wind farm near Beaumont, Kan. The spinning blades atop 200-foot towers might appear to the naked eye as … well … spinning blades. But to Doppler radar, wind farms appear as a splatter of green, yellow, orange and red _ much like a violent storm or even a tornado. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, file)
A wind turbine is raised using a cable and gin pole during a ceremony on Wednesday near Midwest. (Courtesy, Casper College)
Jim Nations, public relations manager for RMOTC, describes basic wind-power concepts to seventh-graders from Midwest School prior to the commissioning of a wind turbine on Wednesday. (Courtesy, Casper College)
Blowing snow and street lights blur in the early-morning hours Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005, as Chris Hall maneuvers a city of McCook, Neb., snowblower across the parking lot at the Heritage Senior Center. McCook school children returned to class Wednesday following a one-day break as a powerful winter storm socked Southwest Nebraska and Northwest Kansas with freezing drizzle, blowing snow and single-digit and sub-zero temperatures. (AP Photo/McCook Daily Gazette, Connie Jo Discoe)
Scott Kane, co-owner of Creative Energies in Lander, stands on a wind turbine tower at the business. He says his company has installed about 20 small wind turbines throughout Wyoming in recent years, and interest in home-based wind power is growing. But up-front costs are still prohibitive for most people. Chris Merrill, Star-Tribune.
Jeff Meyer, managing partner of Pathfinder Renewable Energy LLC, and Mark Doelger, an adviser with Barlow & Haun Inc., stand next to a meteorological tower used to measure wind speeds and direction on Monday afternoon at the Pathfinder Ranch. Meyer, who owns the historic ranch, is developing a 'master plan' for wind development in central Wyoming. (Dan Cepeda/Star-Tribune)
Components for a 1.5-megawatt General Electric wind turbine await assembly at Duke Energy's Campbell Hill wind farm in Converse County earlier this summer. Electricity generated from that wind farm and Duke Energy's planned Top of the World wind project nearby will be purchased by PacifiCorp. (Dustin Bleizeffer/Star-Tribune)
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