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First wind turbine
Charles F. Brush. builds first automatically operated wind turbine in Cleveland -
Hoover Dam building
Hoover dam completed on Sept 30, 1935. -
First nuclear reactor
The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was opened, becoming the worlds first " full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses" -
U.S. utility grid opened at The Geysers
US opens first commercial geothermic power plant. -
Global Warming first mentioned
The term global warming was probably first used in its modern sense on 8 August 1975 in a science paper by Wally Broecker in the journal Science called "Are we on the brink of a pronounced global warming?" -
Jimmy Carter declares energy situation as "moral equivalent of war"
Carter wore a sweater on April 17, 1977 while delivering a televised "fireside chat" and declaring during the speech (clenching his fist for dramatic effect) that the U.S. energy situation during the 1970s was the moral equivalent of war. Carter encouraged energy conservation by all U.S. citizens and installed solar panels on the White House -
Prudhoe Bay oil spill
BP oil spill in Alaska. Caused BP to be fined $20mil dollars and were mandated to search their lines for weaknesses. -
Climate Gate
Several weeks before the Copenhagen Summit on climate change, an unknown individual or group had breached CRU's server and thousands of emails and computer files were copied to various locations on the Internet. -
Deepwater Horizon explosion
The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig triggered the the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. This resulted in the worst environmental disaster in the history of the US. -
Obama speech on energy
President Barack Obama speaks on a secure energy future.
