<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0"><channel><title>The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy &amp;amp; Hydrogen Journal</title><description>A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. 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Stafford</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item><title>The Guardian: ‘The fear has properly set in’: how it feels to watch my home town disappear into the sea</title><link>http://gl-zephyr.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-guardian-fear-has-properly-set-in.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2024 16:54:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403368.post-4061370052516314624</guid><description>&lt;div dir="auto"&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/the-fear-has-properly-set-in-how-it-feels-to-watch-my-home-town-disappear-into-the-sea"&gt;https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/21/the-fear-has-properly-set-in-how-it-feels-to-watch-my-home-town-disappear-into-the-sea&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"&gt;Regards,&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Dan&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  </description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>aquarianm@gmail.com (Daniel A. 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