Harrison Roper's Page

I have learned that the websitge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has quarterly information on quantity and prices of energy sold to the grid. All power producers are required to report quarterly peak and off-peak power sold and the price. When the data appears on the computer screen there is no URL in sight, but maybe you can find it via Google at FERC.

I just did, and I learned that First Wind's Stetson ( Evergreen Wi

Mark my words:

In the light of the Congress dropping all efforts to pass "cap and trade" or any other greenhouse gas limits, I am afraid nothing will be done until high tide begins to lap at the steps of the Stock Exchange on Wall Steet, floods low-lying airports like D.C's Reagan (National), and washes away the CEOs' Palm Beach mansions.

Then, when it is too late, business interests and financiers will complain that the "scientists did not give proper warning". It is time to he

Covering the past 10 days, UMPI's windmill website reports a total power output of 8339 kwh, or a daily average of 834 kwh per day. This is from a turbine that has a nominal 'capacity" of 600 kw. Do the math: 600 kwh X 24 = 14,400 kwh per day, or 140,000 kwh for a ten day period. This would be the power output if the wind were ideal, which hardly ever happens. Apparently we have been getting the equivalent of an hour and a half of good wind per day.

Just looking out the window here in

(from National Windwatch)

In a closing comment on page 17 his firm's June 8, 2010 report of to the Adams County Board (Quincy, Illinois), professional real estate appraiser Michael S. McCann states, in part:

When people react to the negative influences (of industrial wind energy) in ways that would normally seem extreme, such as filing lawsuits or selling their properties for steep discounts from what they should