Affiliates and Partners
The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) is committed to developing an environment in which information technology (IT) companies can flourish in an increasingly competitive marketplace. The ITA is a regional industry trade association headquartered in Chicago and serving all of Illinois. The ITA provides members with access to connections, information and promotional opportunities to improve business locally, regionally and nationally.
Already more than 500 members-strong, the ITA connects technology organizations that focus on travel, data management, telecommunications, navigation, sales enablement, and much more.
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The German American Chamber of Commerce of the Midwest (GACCoM), headquartered in Chicago, was founded in 1963.
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The Great Lakes offer vast tracts of open area unimpeded by terrain, vegetation or urban development. That creates certain shoreline regions that are excellent for the development of wind power such as shown on this wind atlas of the province of Ontario. A great way to examine the average wind speeds blowing across the Great Lakes is via the Canadian Wind Atlas, which covers all but a small portion of southern Lake Michigan - http://www.windatlas.ca And for a paper that examines the wind energy potential of each lake, and all the lakes, see "A Great Potential: The Great Lakes as a Regional Renewable Energy Source" at http://greengold.org/wind/documents/88.pdf. Given the huge potential (which may or may not be realized), so much electricity COULD be produced that uses such as renewable ammonia and fuels made by reduction of carbon dioxide could arranged, freeing the region from outmoded and now expensive (as of 2008) oil and natural gas dependency for such materials. Anyway, hopefully it will give the reader some new views on this topic, or at least get some thinking to occur. If nothing else, it is an example of thinking big with respect to renewable energy. |