Harrison Roper's Blog – April 2010 Archive (4)

Puzzling UMPI website - a partial solution?

I have been casually monitoring the UMPI Live Turbine Data website since April 16. Today is April 20. "Power" is being reported as -.2kw or -.3kw. In the past, a minus figure has appeared only when the rotor is not turning, but for these five days there has been some wind. Now, thee rotor is not turning, the blades are held at about 83 degrees, and power is -.2 or -.3 kw. This looks to me like a shutdown mode.

It is a puzzling situation. In the absence of any other information I am gussing… Continue

Added by Harrison Roper on April 20, 2010 at 5:25pm — 2 Comments

Visit to UMPI April 14

We were at UMPI for "University Day" yesterday, Wednesday April 14 and attended a presentation about an under-development vertical-axis windmill designed to be used on tall buildings, as in Boston. all day, UMPI's windmill was turning merrily, and the recent glitch in live turbine data had just been fixed with a flown-in device, so the "live turbine data" site was working again.

Currently, for some reason the rotor is reported at 28.4rpm but there is no power being produced! The big figure… Continue

Added by Harrison Roper on April 15, 2010 at 2:59pm — 5 Comments

"Sound" testing protocol for Stetson II received today (April 8)

Hello. - Today (April 8, 2010, I just received from Marcia Spencer-Famous, LURC staff, the protocol for sound testing at Stetson II.I presume it is a public document, The protocol does indeed include dBC.

Harriison Roper

Added by Harrison Roper on April 8, 2010 at 5:09pm — 2 Comments

Wind turbine power consumption information!!!!!

Hello World -I have just taken one of my frequent looks at the University of Maine at Presque Isle's live turbine data website. It shows rotor-level wind speed, rotor and generator rpm, gear temperature, power output in kWH, and other details in including an enigmatic "KWH" which I think means kilowatt hours generated since it was comissioned last spring. That last figure jumps up on most days, and is currenntly about 533715 kWH.

There is no wind right now (mid-afternoon of April 7)…

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Added by Harrison Roper on April 7, 2010 at 3:25pm — 2 Comments

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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

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(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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