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In an article in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette today, 10-9-08, a Dutch wind-blade manufacturer, Polymarin Composites and one of its suppliers, Wind Water Technology, announced plans to create about 830 jobs in the Little Rock area over the next four years.  Last year Danish manufacturer LM Glasfiber broke ground on a $150 million plant at the Port of Little Rock.

Polymarin will move into the former Levi Strauss distribution center on I 530. Both Polymarin and LM Glasfiber value the inland water shipping capability that the Port of Little Rock provides via the Arkansas River and its connections to the Mississippi and the Gulf of Mexico.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 04:50:11 PM EST
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Wow.  The second European wind company's move to amurka to hit tonight's OT.  What is the world coming to?  (Hint:  after decades of poisoned sleep, amurka is the world's numero uno wind markt.)

Unfortunately, it's also the home of Mordor-like entrenched lobbies and their media slaves.  Al Gore isn't powerful enough to get his paid ad played after the last debate, but the oilers and coalers were OK.

Readers here can't imagine what it's like to see your entire life's work finally being vindicated, yet knowing the biggest battles are yet to come.  (Or can they?)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:05:53 PM EST
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recently a note of Vestas's opening of a big factory in Colorado, as well as Siemens's opening in Iowa?

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:21:22 PM EST
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Since 2005, i believe there are some three dozen new factories which have opened or are opening, from blade manufacturing, through turbine assembly, to several dedicated tower rollers.  Vestas, Gamesa, Acciona, Suzlon, on and on.  Of course home-grown Clipper is employing thousands in their new factories/site workers.  Even nuclear supplier TECO Westinghouse has a new assembly facility in Texas to produce the 60hz DeWind turbines.

And that doesn't include the expansion of component suppliers, whose ramp-up is not calculated as yet.

hell, even Deutsche WindGuard has a north american presence, and is looking for qualified techs.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:43:23 PM EST
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And that doesn't include the ramp-up of the entire service industry, from several dozens of new cranes being built each year, to the entire technical operations industry being built (including at least a half dozen community colleges now with specific windpower training programs).  Not to mention the transport industry, to get the big things around, by ship and truck.  Did i forget to mention the hundreds of thousands of concrete truck cycles pouring the foundations?

Or the onsite construction workers?

What have i left out?  (Ohh, the lawyers and dealmakers.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Oct 9th, 2008 at 05:54:03 PM EST
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