The Hill News

Earth Day provides us with the opportunity to reflect on the beauty and importance of our natural environment. For more than 40 years, Earth Day has been a time to rally around the changes that transformed our nation into a cleaner and healthier place.

Earth Day helped inspire me to pursue a career in clean energy. I spent over 25 years developing wind energy technology, doing everything from writing mathematical models to climbing 200 foot windmill towers for engineering experiments. My goal was to help develop energy technology that is reliable, environmentally friendly, and cost competitive with fossil fuels. Over the past two decades the wind industry largely achieved those goals.

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