Here’s a summer riddle for you: What’s clear and fresh and very clean, all blue but still completely green? If you guessed a swimming pool, you’re right. But what’s green about a clean pool? The green isn’t from algae but from the energy saved by using a variable-speed pool pump.
Energy
CARSON CITY — A spokesman for a company criticized Thursday by a legislator for not hiring Nevadans said Friday that 65 percent of the workers they used to build a Boulder City area solar facility were local residents.
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the next few weeks, this column will address new bills affecting homeowners associations that are to be proposed before the 2009 Legislature.
VIRGINIA CITY — Storey County residents packed a room to speak out against a proposed wind farm near Virginia City, saying it would hurt tourism.
CARSON CITY — Senate Majority Leader Steven Horsford announced a plan Friday to use federal stimulus funds to retrain people and create a work force for the coming renewable energy economy in which Nevada can lead the nation in geothermal, solar and wind energy production.
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