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Andrew Swapp is a veteran and shop teacher, who started teaching the first renewable energy class in the State of Utah. Swapp brought his message to Washington where he told lawmakers about the jobs created by wind industry.

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Some homeowners are installing wind turbines in their backyards. These windmills are connected to the grid, and deliver renewable, green energy to the owner’s home. MarketWatch’s Stacey Delo talks with San Francisco homeowner Robin Wilson about putting in a wind turbine in an urban area. Video originally aired October 8, 2008. Check out more videos at www.wsj.com

Professor Habib Dagher is building the first offshore wind farm in North America that will float off the coast of Maine – a state that some consider to be the Saudi Arabia of wind power. Test models have performed well in the laboratory, but the farm’s real turbines will need to stand up to the region’s bleak weather. If they do work, experts believe that they can generate enough electricity to power the US four times over. Critics, however, worry that the cost of such a development will be passed on to consumers, as the US has no formal energy policy. Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports from Maine.

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In “This Week @Minnesota” for the week of Oct. 24-28, we carve a Goldy-themed pumpkin, head out to UMore Park for the opening of a new wind turbine and visit the U’s Mini Medical School. Connect with us on Twitter @UMNews and let us know what you’d like to see next week on This Week!

This is a time-lapse video of the September 2011 construction of a wind turbine at the University of Minnesota Eolos Wind Energy Research Station at UMore Park in Rosemount, Minn. The turbine tower is 263 feet tall. The height of the base of the tower to the tip of the blade is approximately 415 feet. The University of Minnesota was one of three university consortia to be awarded a US Department of Energy (DOE) wind energy research grant in 2009. The .9 million award to the University’s St. Anthony Falls Laboratory in the College of Science and Engineering, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), supports an academy-industry consortium focused on wind energy research and education activities. It also includes construction of the US-made 2.5 megawatt Clipper Liberty wind turbine. The Wind Energy Research Station will host not only active consortium research, but also education and training of next generation wind industry workers to help further the national goal to increase wind power to 20 percent by 2030.