Federal Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen (CDU) announced an increased investment in offshore wind power. Compared with the “Hamburger Abendblatt Röttgen said that he would use to invest in the development of offshore wind farms to renewable energy sources in Germany further. These guarantees are to be introduced, which can be requested by the offshore wind energy companies. These will be used for the entire range of wind energy: from planning and building the facilities up to current injection, the network expansion on the high seas and the connection to the electricity grid in the country. With the guarantees given the manufacturers, operators and the financing bank more planning security.

Röttgen plans to achieve by the end of 2011 fixed investment decisions for 10 wind farms in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. He also wants to be convened a conference in which the grid connection of the proposed wind farm off the German coast is discussed. The Minister also confirmed again the goal of wanting to produce over 10,000 megawatts by 2020 and by 2030 more than 25,000 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind turbines. He hoped that the energy supply in Germany in 2050 to 100% let met by renewable energies. (Mh)

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The Federal Office for Nature Conservation (BfN) has expressed concern at the currently used solid foundations for offshore wind farms, so that their development currently falls further and further to a halt because no foundations are first approved for more wind farms. As the “World” reports, there are currently two variants that are used: for a steel foundations are used, which are secured by Rammschläge in the seabed, this is about 15,000 per windmill Rammschläge required. Investigations by the German pilot offshore wind farm “alpha ventus” have shown that these works are very loud and distribute the sensitive porpoises out of their habitats.

The second variant is made of concrete gravity foundations, which seal the seabed. The disadvantage: they harm the resident mussels and crabs. A letter from the BfN to the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH), relied on by the “world”, it means that gravity foundations are not a good alternative and that “should be preferred to bore introduced foundations. The problem with this method is that there is no provider who performs this procedure. (Mh)

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MSI Wind

, a 10-screen netbook and powered by the Intel Atom

interesting thing about the MSI Wind U160DX is that it measures less than an inch thick and weighs only 1kg.

What’s more, they have nice specifications including support for DDR3 memory and provides incredible 15 hours of battery life

The characteristics of the MSI Wind U160DX include Intel Atom processor N455 (1.66GHz), 2GB DDR3 memory, 160GB hard drive

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U160DX MSI Wind has 10 “display (1024 x 600) WSVGA LED, GMA3150 graphics, wireless, Bluetooth, card reader, USB 2.0 * 3, card reader, 1 3 MP webcam, high definition audio, 6-cell battery and Windows 7 Starter.

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MSI

has updated its line Winds series netbook with a new model, the MSI Wind U135DX

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U135DX has a fresh design and offers decent specifications.

stylish exterior clad in own MSI Color Print Film, comes equipped with the latest Intel Atom N455 processor, DDR3 memory and the system MSI TDE turbo propulsion technology provides greater portability, energy saving and high performance.

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U135DX epoch-making in the TDE turbo drive technology, starting in the overclocking to improve throughput at once, maximizing the hardware capabilities of the machine.

Specifications

U135DX MSI Wind include include Atom N455 (1.66 GHz) processor, 2GB DDR3 memory, 160GB hard drive, 10.1 “screen with backlight LED, wireless, card reader, Bluetooth, 0.3MP webcam, 3x USB ports, and Windows 7 Starter.

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