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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Survey of dealerships finds that majority are doubtful about the future of electric vehicles
"APPENDIX 1 World Offshore Wind Capacity Placed on Operation in 2021 During 2021, worldwide offshore wind capacity placed in operation was 17,398 MW, of which China 13,790 MW, and the rest of the world 3,608 MW, of which UK 1,855 MW;…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables
"APPENDIX 1 World Offshore Wind Capacity Placed on Operation in 2021 During 2021, worldwide offshore wind capacity placed in operation was 17,398 MW, of which China 13,790 MW, and the rest of the world 3,608 MW, of which UK 1,855 MW;…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Sun Journal - Anthony Shostak: ‘The road to authoritarianism is paved with good intentions’
"APPENDIX 1 World Offshore Wind Capacity Placed on Operation in 2021 During 2021, worldwide offshore wind capacity placed in operation was 17,398 MW, of which China 13,790 MW, and the rest of the world 3,608 MW, of which UK 1,855 MW;…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables
"Urban Heat Archipelagos UHAs, such as on the US East Coast, from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk, Virginia, significantly contribute to local warming. That area used to be covered with forests. Many large solar systems in the US Southwest add up to a…"
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arthur qwenk commented on Long Islander's blog post John Baldacci, formerly governor, must be smiling when he's not counting his money, formerly yours
"All these Mill's  lefties are bullshit laden Narrative Followers of the Woke Renewable Culture permeating the once great State of Maine.  They have drained the average Mainers pockets with their renewable unreliable power schemes,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Bloomberg: Turbine-hating Trump poses new threat to beleaguered offshore wind
"Bloomberg sells investment services to its well-heeled clients, and wind/solar/batteries is a big part of it’s tax-shelter business on which it earns big fees"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables
"The US spends $BILLIONS PER YEAR to expand and reinforce the ONSHORE electric grids to connect the VARIABLE, WEATHER-DEPENDENT outputs of wind and solar systems, that are spread out far and wide. Remember, these grids were perfectly adequate before…"
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Dan McKay commented on Long Islander's blog post US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables
""Climate-fueled extreme weather events"?  This is a government, politically biased agency fueled by idiots who are fueling a narrative of fuelish interpretation of the weather and weather driven renewables. Build reliable gas-fired,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Harbinger of Trouble: More than 15,000 people now work in Maine's clean energy sector
"The moneyed elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have formed a cabal to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Harbinger of Trouble: More than 15,000 people now work in Maine's clean energy sector
"Excerpt from https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e... Urban Heat ArchipelagosUHAs, such as on the US East Coast, from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post DOE unveils 10 potential ‘national interest’ transmission corridors where projects could be expedited
"Excerpt from https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e... Urban Heat ArchipelagosUHAs, such as on the US East Coast, from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post DOE unveils 10 potential ‘national interest’ transmission corridors where projects could be expedited
"The moneyed elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have formed a cabal to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Mills Claims Maine “Clean Energy” Jobs Surpass 15k — But She’s Counting CMP and Versant Employees
"Excerpt from https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e... Urban Heat ArchipelagosUHAs, such as on the US East Coast, from Portland, Maine, to Norfolk,…"
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Willem Post commented on Long Islander's blog post Mills Claims Maine “Clean Energy” Jobs Surpass 15k — But She’s Counting CMP and Versant Employees
"The moneyed elites, and IPCC, and WEF, and $politicians, and entrenched bureaucrats, and compromised academia, and lapdog Media, have formed a cabal to perpetuate and/or enrich themselves and impoverish all others, using…"
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Sun Journal - Anthony Shostak: ‘The road to authoritarianism is paved with good intentions’

May 15, 2024

When tragedy strikes, lawmakers predictably capitalize on the moment to make laws intended to prevent similar events. But such reflexive legislation is all too often based more on emotion surrounding unusual circumstances than it is upon sound logic and philosophical foundations.

Years ago, swayed by incessant media reports about the environment, I was card-carrying Sierra Club member urging the government to “do something” to steer society toward “green”…

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Posted on May 15, 2024 at 10:12am — 1 Comment

John Droz, Jr: Media Balance Newsletter: May 13, 2024

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https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2024/Media_Balance_Newsletter-5-13-24.pdf

Once Unthinkable Nuclear Plant Revival Is a Reality in US Shift

Gambling With The Grid’: New Data Highlights Achilles’ Heel Of One Of Biden’s

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Posted on May 15, 2024 at 8:53am

US overhauls electric grid to make way for more renewables

By Valerie Volcovici

May 13, 20245:37 PM EDT

WASHINGTON, May 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Monday approved the first major electric transmission policy update in over a decade that aims to speed up new interregional lines to move more clean energy to meet growing demand amid the explosion of electric vehicles, data centers and artificial intelligence.

Approved in a 2-1 vote, the new rule is also the first time the FERC has ever…

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Posted on May 13, 2024 at 5:43pm — 5 Comments

Survey of dealerships finds that majority are doubtful about the future of electric vehicles

“Those numbers are troubling on the surface but when you consider the brands our respondents represent, it might be even more distressing,” the report stated,

By Kevin Killough

May 11, 2024

A survey of managers and executives at dealerships finds that 65% say they are pessimistic about the future of electric vehicles

CDK Global, a research firm specializing in data for dealerships, surveyed 250 dealership managers and executives and found…

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At 9:10pm on June 17, 2015, Eskutassis said…

The arguments we have with those on the other side are really amazing.  I saw yours on the PPH article.  I posted one too.

At 11:13am on July 17, 2013, Peter Beckford said…

Yo Long Islander, can you do anything to give my blog post the widest audience, like emailing it on to everyone or something? Thanks a lot, Peter Beckford

We appreciate the steady diet of posts from you

At 8:03pm on July 14, 2012, Wind Scam said…
Wind Scam Artists strategies to destroy "America the Beautiful".
 
This is long, but it is worth scanning all of it. Be sure to download and search for your Reps. and Senators too. Don't forget to share with all.
This shows the backroom dealings of these wind scam artists and our politicians ramming this "Rip Off" unreliable and unproductive wind energy crap down our thro@@t.
 
Don't miss there campaign to save wind jobs that cost the American Taxpayer in excess of $8,000,000 each also, why because it come our of our wallets and purses.
Be sure to check out all their propaganda goals to destroy the Beautiful United States and make each of us pay for this destruction from "Fake Renewable Energy".
At 7:31am on February 29, 2012, Allen Barrette said…

Ok lets update Americas status first there are millions of abandoned homes from foreclosure, there is less electricity for lights,furnaces,etc. being used today  so we all can relax with the scare of congesting our grids. There is plenty of current being generated at the moment. So what steps do we take to rid our lands of the dinosaur turbines that this foreign company called first wind first and they are not from New England originally folks. The office in Boston is just a front to be what they thought was going to be action. Obama our fearless leader wants to keep this going,The wasteful spending, allowing the companies to change names as fast as the sun sets,how they do business,How they are awarded these funds I'll never understand because there is in my opinion no practical method in deciding who gets funding for these energy projects. I am disgusted at this administration, If you were working in my company I"d fire you for insubordination, you know your not suppose to use public money for your personal interests. It has to be personal because it surely is not a public interest  Shame on you ----- Got Vision           

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At 8:08pm on March 27, 2010, Mary Elen Marucci said…
HI, Ita a geodatabase I am building with two others as a project in intro GIS. Has to do with state and local ordinance rules affecting possible sites in a particular town. I enjoyed your picture gallery. Mary Ellen
At 10:52pm on March 14, 2010, Joanne Moore said…
Thanks for the link to the report. Geeze, these guys say just what industry pays them to say. Wow! The Name Norm Famous reminds me of one of the Lounge Lizards wannabe types. Very interesting to know he is the husband of Marcia Spenser-Famous. I had a sneaking suspicion he was. The name is unusual, if not famous. Heh. Another conflict of interest, ya think?
At 11:28am on January 24, 2010, Art Brigades said…
Investigative reporting.... We need to whip this beast a little better.

Interesting to read Tux Turkel's piece this morning. While his focus was narrowly on noise, and only at Vinalhaven, it surely helped puncture the huge bubble just a bit. More noteworthy than what he wrote was what he did not write.

How he could interview Hanna Pingree and NOT ask her why she withdrew her turbine noise bill is either abject stupidity or laziness. Legislators regularly rush to the statehouse with a new bill whenever a constituent says "there oughtta be a law..."

Could it be that he didn't ask the Speaker of the House (who can get anything she wants to a public hearing) why she doesn't think this is worthy of a bill, or why she isn't raising holy hell over getting a hearing???

It would be one thing if her district was Old Orchard Beach, but these are HER constituents who are under the bus!! Investigative reporting??? Please. One doesn't need to be a political veteran to know that the ties that bind among the Pingrees, Baldaccis, Adamses, and the wind mafia are very tight indeed. Turn a blind eye to a monumental calamity in your state, district, and town why? To repay political favors? Now that's a story that'll sell papers.

Turkel needs to pursue this angle. He also needs to expose the tragic economic realities of this trojan horse that has been wheeled into Maine.
 
 
 

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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