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The Los Angeles Community College System, blessed with $5.7 billion in voter-approved bonds, had a grand plan to be a national model of green energy: its nine colleges would be self-sufficient in electricity thanks to solar, wind and geothermal power….

President Obama laid out an ambitious goal in his latest State of the Union address: By 2035, America will get 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources.

President Obama laid out an ambitious goal in his latest State of the Union address: By 2035, America will get 80 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources.

Along the steel-gray Quinebaug River in eastern Connecticut, Duncan Broatch is tinkering with machinery that will keep one of his two hydroelectric plants cranking out clean energy. The U.S. needs Broatch’s Summit Hydropower Inc. and other green power providers to make a dent in the 35 percent of the country’s global-warming pollution that comes from burning fossil fuels to make electricity.

Green group: Compressed air storage key to clean energy By stephen hunt The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Nov 6, 2010 07:25PM MDT Solar and wind power sound like great, environmentally clean ways to generate electricity, don’t they? But what happens when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow? It’s a question often posed by skeptics. The answer, according to a local environmental group, is ...