CLEVELAND (TDB) -- Cleveland State University scientist Majid Rashidi [1] is closer to obtaining federal financial aid to help develop energy-producing "windspires," four of which may soon be spinning on the rooftops of Northeastern Ohio. The House Appropriations Committee has agreed to authorize putting about $1.1 million of taxpayers' cash into the project, which also has backing from the state.
Cleveland State U's Rooftop Windmills: U.S. House Panel OKs Seed Money
U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Cleveland, announced the influential House panel's decision to support the windspires [2], which are souped up breeze-powered machines without the huge spinning blades typical of windmills. Rashidi wants to set build test devices to see how effectively they function.
Tubbs Jones said the project is an investment in retooling the state's economy and portrayed it as critical to efforts to get Ohio growing again.
http://thebellwetherdaily.blogspot.com/2007/07/cleveland-state-us-rooftop-windmills-us.html [3]
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