All Blog Posts Tagged 'wind' (118)

A totally new type of windfarm

The Japanese are building Floating Wind Farms to put in deeper waters....

"What sets the project apart from other offshore wind farms around the world, consortium officials say, is that its turbines, and even the substation and electrical transformer equipment, float on giant platforms anchored to the seabed. That technology greatly expands potential locations for offshore wind farms, which have been fixed into the seabed, limiting their location to shallow…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on October 25, 2013 at 11:48am — No Comments

PETITION: NO WIND TURBINE in Mass Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

Dear Friends,

We know that it is odd to have to petition the leadership of a Wildlife Sanctuary not to erect a bat and bird killing wind turbine, but these are indeed strange times. 

Please sign the online petition even if you have previously signed another petition opposing Mass Audubon Society's (MAS) proposed wind turbine proposal for Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (WBWS).

It will take you only a minute or two and will really help.

PLEASE WIDELY DISTRIBUTE…

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Added by Barry @ SaveOurSeaShore on October 22, 2013 at 12:43pm — 5 Comments

The Great Wind Energy Bait and Switch

The Great Wind Energy Bait and Switch is a scenario that should have been avoided. 

Ratepayers have been assured by the industry that wind energy is a reliable energy

source that would reduce electricity costs, and these promises were parroted by our

policy makers. Only after spending billions of public dollars on wind, we are being

informed by the beneficiaries of our largess,…
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Added by Barbara Durkin on August 4, 2013 at 10:10am — No Comments

"It's over" for the Czech Republic

The Czech Republic’s government has voted to end support for renewable power generation in a bid to reduce rising consumer electricity bills.

The law proposes to stop subsidies for new projects and goes in to effect from 2014. Read the rest at Bloomberg...

Meanwhile, check out this neat graphic from Germany...…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on July 30, 2013 at 12:45am — No Comments

J.P. Morgan alleged energy market manipulation and J.P. Morgan Team First Wind

This breaking BIG WIND news pertains to J.P. Morgan and Team First Wind

News item 1> 

Team J.P. Morgan First Wind with logo below;

News item 2> 

J.P.…
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Added by Barbara Durkin on July 18, 2013 at 1:11pm — No Comments

ASSESSING THE DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT BY WINDFARM CLEARCUTS...USING iFORE SOFTWARE

Most of you have never fully appreciated the value of forests in cleansing the  atmosphere of CO2, removing other pollutants, returning oxygen to the atmosphere and providing a full range of environmental benefits.

In an urban forest where tree cover is 22.1% there was an estimated 283,000 trees. 60% were less than 6" in diameter. These are far smaller that in a rural forest with it's large biomass.

>>> pollution removal was 40 metric tons/ year or $430…

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Added by Frank J. Heller, MPA on October 16, 2012 at 3:08pm — No Comments

UK sees real cost of onshore wind

read it all

Telegraph, UK:

"And here’s the final rub. Once allowance is made for the inefficient use of back-up generating capacity, wind power turns out to be an expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions when compared with the option of investing in efficient and flexible gas combined-cycle plants or indeed…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on October 3, 2012 at 7:49pm — No Comments

What Every Maine Ratepayer Needs to Know

8/4/13

There's a problem with wind power in Maine

Inadequate transmission lines mean some power has to be kept off the grid. And ratepayers will likely bear the cost of future upgrades.

By Tux Turkel tturkel@mainetoday.com

Staff Writer

Read the article here: …

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Added by Long Islander on September 29, 2012 at 7:30pm — 14 Comments

UMPI TURBINE website declares "It's working!"

After many months the UMPI website is declaring:

             "Repairs are complete and the wind turbine is once again

              spinning.  In addition the data gathering system for the 

              turbine has been restored and the live wind data is currently 

    …

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Added by Harrison Roper on September 27, 2012 at 6:02pm — 1 Comment

University of Delaware Spins a Web of Lies about broken Lewes Wind Turbine

Still many Lewes turbine questions hanging

They say they were upgrading the Turbine, but fact is it was destroyed by Lightning. 

http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/column/columnpost/still-many-lewes-turbine-questions-hanging/899098

Cape Gazette By Jerry Lechliter | Sep 21, 2012

 When something happens that might…

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Added by Barry @ SaveOurSeaShore on September 21, 2012 at 10:30am — 3 Comments

New York Times " Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering "

FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. — Last month, Gamesa, a major maker of components for…

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Added by Ellin Beltz on September 20, 2012 at 1:06pm — No Comments

Stetson II and Harvard

It is good that attention is being paid to Harvard's purchased interest in Stetson II. Here are some hard facts - let's see if Harvard cites these uncomfortable figures:

  According to FERC's quarterly summaries, Stetson II (when construction was completed) produced 10 GWH in the third quarter of 2010 and 20 GWH in the fourth quarter of 2010.

The installed capacity of Stetson II is 57 GWH per quarter. That's 30 GWH produced for the half year; installed capacity for the period…

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Added by Harrison Roper on June 27, 2012 at 10:44am — 2 Comments

Pressuring the FAA, Capacity Factor Declines, and 31,000 BLM Acres Saved in Nevada. Sun. 6/24/12 7pm ET

Please join Harley Keisch and Lisa Linowes for this Sunday's Wind Wise Radio program. We encourage our listeners to dial in and talk with us and our guests.  The dial-in line is 213-943-36683

 

In Massachusetts, Freedom of Information Act requests have turned up evidence of the massive…

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Added by WWR on June 23, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments

UMPI turbine's latest power production data

Today (July 20, 2012) the UMPI wind turbine site reported  actual power produced since mid-November of  2011 at 364,689 KWH. That's 210 days, and an average 1736 KWH per day. Divide that average by the "installed capacity" of 14,000 KWH per day and you get .124. This is called the "capacity factor"; capacity factor is seldom mentioned by wind promoters. It means the turbine has been working at one eighth  (12.6%) of its potential since it was repaired in mid-November of 2011.  This, for an…

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Added by Harrison Roper on June 20, 2012 at 11:20am — No Comments

WWR tonight, 7pm ET, Join the conversation!!

Minnesota -- Vermont -- California

Conflict in…

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Added by WWR on June 10, 2012 at 3:32pm — No Comments

War of the Words

Please do not sip coffee before clicking this link...

Added by Ellin Beltz on May 27, 2012 at 8:43pm — No Comments

Reply to Hart Daley

Hello Hart - Here is a partial list:

Lincoln Lakes (First Wind)  Rollins   Evergreen Wind Power III, LLC

Washington County -Stetson I (First Wind) Evergreen Wind Power V, LLC

washington County -Stetson II (First Wind) Stetson Wind, LLC

Mars Hill - (First Wind) Evergreen Wind Power, LLC

Kibby - TransCanadian Maine Wind Development, Inc.

Carthage - Canton Mountain Wind, LLC

Oakfield - (First Wind; not yet under construction) will be Evergreen…

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Added by Harrison Roper on May 15, 2012 at 4:48pm — 2 Comments

Turbine Trouble in Paradise on WWR Tonight, Sunday 5/6/12, 7pm ET

Wind Wise Radio will visit with folks fighting the scourge of industrial wind in some very special places, talk about the weeks headlines, and take listener calls.

There is a dangerous trend brewing as even precious unspoiled places with regional or world wide significance are being prospected and proposed for industrial scale wind development.  For example, this past week in California a vote to approve a project on Bureau of…

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Added by WWR on May 6, 2012 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Today on Wind Wise Radio - Bryce, Corrigan, Johnson

Truth from Texas with Robert Bryce and Headlines with our Expert Roundtable — Sun. April 29, 7pm ET

Robert Bryce will be joining us to talk about IWT.  His…

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Added by WWR on April 29, 2012 at 5:10am — No Comments

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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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