A truck used to deliver feed to a business where cattle are fattened hit a train track and shifted it at least a foot before an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas and injured at least 32 people, an investigator said. National Transportation Safety Board member Earl Weener did not say Tuesday if the feed […]
Biofuels Plant Harbinger of Renewable Fuel Future
A new biofuels plant in southwest Kansas represents the future of ethanol production in the United States, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said. The $500 million biorefinery in Hugoton is one of only three commercially sized plants in the country that use only plant waste, such as stalks and leaves, for production and thus do not […]
Tornado-stricken town rebuilds with clean energy
After a mammoth tornado wiped out most of this rural Kansas community in 2007, supporters of clean energy in the state seized on an unusual opportunity to rebuild a town from the ground up with the latest green technology. They came up with a sustainable-power dreamscape: wind turbines to power hundreds of homes, futuristic buildings […]
Tornado-Stricken Town Rebuilds with Clean Energy
After a mammoth tornado wiped out most of this rural Kansas community in 2007, supporters of clean energy in the state seized on an unusual opportunity to rebuild a town from the ground up with the latest green technology. They came up with a sustainable-power dreamscape: wind turbines to power hundreds of homes, futuristic buildings […]