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CEDAR RAPIDS - It's easy to spot the 240-foot-tall wind turbine on Kirkwood Community College's Cedar Rapids campus. The 2.5 megawatt turbine helps power campus. But it's the full-sized turbine hub ...
Humanity has been onto wind power—that is, using wind for pumps and mills—for centuries. But in more recent decades, industrial turbines have been built to generate electricity on a much greater scale ...
The country's fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics — with numbers expected to more than double over the next decade. So what does a wind ...
Wind-turbine technicians are the workers who service the very top of towering wind farms. The median wage is $27 per hour, and most jobs don't require a four-year degree. Employment is projected to ...
Federal data indicates wind-turbine technician is the fastest-growing job in the US. The US and other countries are building more wind farms to tackle the climate crisis. This article is part of ...
THE DALLES, Ore. – Wanted: Technicians willing to climb to the top of 250-foot towers and spend 12 hours there. Resistance to vertigo required. Interest in alternative power sources a plus. Columbia ...
When Juan Flores started his first job fixing wind turbines 14 years ago, he wished he’d had more training. On one of his first days on the job, he had to climb a 90-meter ladder. But no one told him ...
STERLING, Colo. (CBS4) - As Colorado continues to use more renewable energy, a small college in northeast Colorado is creating a nationally recognized program to train the needed Wind Technicians. "We ...
Texas State Technical College wind energy technology instructor James Chung, center, helps Steven Vasquez, left, and Shayne Howard, right, during a class in Sweetwater on March 5. Wind energy ...
The Bulgarian architects, Morphocode, have designed an apartment for the future that is actually based on an offshore wind turbine. Their conceptual design, known as the “Wind Turbine Loft”, is ...