The verdict is in
Extracting wind energy from the lower atmosphere
via ocean windfarm projects
does indeed alter the climate.
But the UMaine DeepCwind Consortium considers that an inconvenient truth, best ignored.
Maine DeepCwind Consortium: will it factor in the climate-altering effects of their ocean energy extraction plans?
Or must it be pushed into meeting its ethical responsibility to avoid lasting harm to the climate?
But the UMaine DeepCwind Consortium considers that an inconvenient truth, best ignored.
It is a shame that the state permit enabling DeepCwind's pooling of scientific and engineering talents to focus on how best to harvest wind offshore must be taken to the judicial woodshed.
For doing offshore wind right is much more important than doing it in a needless hurry.
Given the depth and now the breadth of concern (see links below) that has arisen about wind energy extraction's effect on climate, it was deeply disappointing when, during the question and answer period atthe Maine Wind Power Forum on May 20, 2010 University of Maine's Dr. Habib Dagher blithely, nay, bluntly brushed aside the Norwegian metrological agency's exhaustive review, stating: "The scientific community doesn't take that very seriously."
Guess again, Doc. Read (and these are but the tip of the offshore windfarm impacts research iceberg):
* Resource Decrease by Large Scale Wind Farming by G.P. Corten (corten@ecn.nl),. A.J. Brand (brand@ecn.nl) ECN Wind Energy - Wind Farm Design - The Netherlands
Two by Goram Brostrom, senior scientist Nowegian Meteorological Agency
* Windmills at sea will affect the climate (note this is a google translation from Norwegian; there are translation errors here and there.Dismissing the work of Goram Brostrom, senior scientist Nowegian Meteorological agency, and others, as not-credible leaves the American plan for the Gulf of Maine with no consideration of this important issue at all.
For DeepCwind to fail to include sober examination of the likely climatic impacts of ocean windfarming within their deliberations from the start suggests that those seeking financial gain from the R&D effort fear the results of such an examination.
Regrettably, when prudence and precaution are cast to the winds, those concerned about the climate changing effects of wind energy extraction have little recourse but to seek to see such precaution enforced by the gavel of the judiciary.
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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
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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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