The Stranded Wind Initiative was founded last December with an eye on, well, rescuing stranded wind.

How does wind get stranded in the first place? Simple – if you have a wind energy resource in place that lacks both the population to use its power and the transmission lines to get it out of the area it is stranded.

We started looking for local electricity intense manufacturing that made sense in Iowa’s wind patch and the first thing that came to mind was ammonia production driven by water hydrolysis rather than the current method, which uses natural gas and produces 4% of the total global CO2 emissions. It didn’t work out in Iowa for a variety of technical reasons that may eventually be resolved, but earlier this week something very nice happened here in New England ...

(crossposted from DailyKos)

We've been pushing this whole Stranded Wind Initiative along for a few months now and we're finally getting traction. We've got a lovely collection of contributors, most of whom were harvested right here on DailyKos, we've got investors looking at our Freedom Fertilizer investment vehicle, again from DailyKos ...

And if it weren't for Iowa State Senator Jack Kibbie's interest the Democratic Party is completely oblivious to our existence, while we're getting fantastic support from our very conservative Republican representatives(!)