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Webinar Invitation: Wind Turbine Syndrome - Myths and Facts, Thurs. Feb. 11 at 11am EST
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What's below is sponsored by a pro-wind government sponsored "working group" here in Michigan.  Be sure it will be a hatchet job.  May be it's time for the rest of us to show up in force to make a po…

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Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine legislators decide to keep Maine state waters windfarm-free! Listen to them'
If the legislature votes to ban windmills from it's waters it makes sense. If there is uncertainty about the future of the coastline then a lot of investment will stop and the shorefront real estate market will tank, even if windmills are never buil…
March 25
Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'BDN (Maineville edition): State legislators scrambling as furious fishermen fight plan to "close the commons".'
Something similar is happening in Michigan with the Great Lakes. It's in the news that legislation is being evaluated by the state and several promoters are also in the news proposing hundreds of turbines near shore in Lakes Michigan, St Clair and O…
March 18
Charlie replied to Harrison Roper's discussion 'UMPI's wind website has been partially updated'
If the turbine cost $2 mil and only produces $100 k per year of electricity that means 20 years to break even not counting maintenance expenses. That can't be rught. I'm baffled by situations like this where a school or a municipality buys one or t…
March 13
Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons." State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."'
On flat farmland the common spacing standard it 60 acres per MW. 5000 mw * 60 acres = 300,000 acres / 640 acres = 468 square miles of water reserved for 5000 mw of turbines. How many fishermen does that much area support? How many people does it fee…
March 10
Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Maine faces new 'Closing of the Commons." State's fishery agency "caught with its pants down."'
Nice work Ron and I especially like that graphic you finish with. I'm going to pass this along to folks here in Michigan facing off against the wind guys. Would the offshore wind farms put limits on non commercial fishing or recreational use of the…
March 10
Charlie commented on Long Islander's blog post 'Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood'
apparenlty the noise issue is being raised to a national issue. http://betterplan.squarespace.com/todays-special/2010/3/5/5510-the-noise-heard-round-the-world-and-a-look-at-the-futur.html In my neighborhood lives a retired British accoustics engine…
March 8
Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Nearshore wind wannabes at Maine Fishermen's Forum face grimly silent lobstermen, scallopers, shrimpers'
Like Maine, here in Michigan, there is a big push for wind farms on land and on the Lakes. My view is the folks with inland problems need to increase the number of NIMBYs to the largest number possible as fast as possible. The offshore issue is an e…
March 8
Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
THAT'S IT!!! And thanks for giving me a much needed laugh.
March 1
Long Islander commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
Joanne - do you mean Al Goreleone?
March 1
Charlie commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
Joanne, Europe signed the Kyoto treaty, america didn't. Europe has cap and trade, america doesn't. Windmills were state of the art technology throughout Europe (in the Middle Ages). America doesn't have that experience. Since there's no stomach in A…
March 1
Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
Ha! Love it, Long Islander! The mob indeed. The Wind Mafia! Adept at extortion, lies and bribery. But, I still want to know what group devised this scheme in the first place. Where did the idea come from? It involves nearly every nation so there mu…
March 1
Long Islander commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
Electricity is wonderful, but in some ways it is like heroin - and most of us are addicted. The wind power invasion of Maine is not dissimilar to new people muscling in on the heroin trade. They know that if they can carve themselves a piece of the…
March 1
Lisa Lindsay commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
Wow, thank you for posting these links . Joanne, you are right. This is so hard. But what is the expression about the the most difficult choice is usually the right choice? At least, that is what I keep telling myself.
March 1
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March 1
Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'
I must say that I just spent a few moments in deep, deep despair. It almost got to me, the scope of the cartel we are up against is staggering. I wrote awhile back sort of tongue-in-cheek that we were being invaded but now I am in dead earnest - we…
February 28
Charlie added a blog post
Google Earth has collected "street view" imagery for a high percentage of America and Europe's rural areas and most of that work has been done very recently so street view can be used to explore many existing wind farms. Below are some screen shots…
February 28

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self guided wind farm tours with google earth

Google Earth has collected "street view" imagery for a high percentage of America and Europe's rural areas and most of that work has been done very recently so street view can be used to explore many existing wind farms.



Below are some screen shots of a 250 turbine wind farm near Zeewolde, Netherlands. The wind farm is old enough that GE imagery shows the turbine pads. To explore the wind farm go to Layers in Google Earth and turn on "street view". Then go to Gallery and turn o

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Posted on February 28, 2010 at 6:50pm — 7 Comments

Charlie

Good news for the NIMBY's, reinforcements are on the way.

The Nimby club is about to get a LOT larger because a Canadian developer has proposed to put 165 windmills on Lake St. Clair. This may be the first time in the US there is a proposal to put windmills in full view of a major metropolitian area and on water as precious to the locals as Nantucket Sound is to people on the east coast. (Where are those native american sunrise worshipers when you need them.)



Suppose the Canadian side of the lake is fully developed wiith turbines. For

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Posted on February 24, 2010 at 12:18pm —

Charlie

Recommended reading

What's below came from this page. http://www.aweo.org/Martin.html



How to Fight the Big Wind Onslaught

Calvin Luther Martin, January 2009

Yesterday I turned 61. I've been fighting the wind bastards well over 4 years. Four years devoted to almost nothing else. Put a big book on h


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Posted on February 14, 2010 at 12:27pm — 2 Comments

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At 9:13pm on February 12, 2010, Ron Huber said…
What I envision, is two mills in the middle distance, and a forest of windmills in the background.
The two mills are in state waters, just beyond is federal waters, where the Ocean energy Institute wants to build an untold number of windmills in their quest for ....ammonia!
At 8:34pm on February 12, 2010, Ron Huber said…
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/7177676

A gmap of Monhegan



http://maps.google.com/maps?t=p&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=43.762571,-69.308538&spn=0.04054,0.104628&z=14
 
 
 

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