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Wind Power for the World
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Wind Power for the World

by Preben Maegaard, Anna Krenz, Wolfgang Palz
June 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
676 pages
20h 39m
English
CRC Press
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PART I
1974: After the Oil Crisis
7.1 Politicians’ Relations with Wind Power
We are in the winter of 1974. The Danes have been told to economise
on oil, as oil covers almost 100% of the country’s energy consump-
tion. And all of it comes from remote Middle East.
         
winter, that is, long before anyone has heard of OVE, Chr. Riisager,
the Risø testing station, a Danish natural gas net and all the rest of
the terms that are constantly present in the newspaper headlines
during the following years. But already in 1974 two camps had been
formed: it was either windmills or nuclear power ...
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ISBN: 9789814364935