Clint Wilder: Troy the Turbine Builder: Creating the New Energy Economy

For better or worse, we all know Joe the Plumber. But have you heard of Troy the Turbine Builder? That would be Troy Galloway of Hollsopple, Pennsylvania, who works at the Gamesa wind turbine plant in the nearby town of Ebensburg. Unlike Joe, Mr. Galloway is an actual turbine builder, goes by his first name, has never owed back taxes, and voted for Barack Obama for president. Galloway, married with four children, worked in the steel industry for some 15 years, suffered a layoff and was retrained for work in the Gamesa facility. He's the subject of a brief web video produced by Clean Tech & Green Business for Obama , a campaign group formed last summer to organize the clean tech industry for fund-raising while advising and supporting the campaign's New Energy Economy efforts. In its four months of existence before Election Day, Clean Tech & Green Business for Obama (known as 'CT4O' for short) raised upwards of $1.6 million from more than a thousand donors, while enlisting some 7,000 ... (link)