Your HOW green?
In comparing Energy sources side by side, by any measure it all comes down to we either pollute immediately or pollute over a longer term. Conservation (reduction by best use practices) is in order. However, our state government seems to reward with higher rates, when we attempt to do so. Purchase Contracts where a financial commitment is required in advance to build needs to come to an end. An Open Market system may be better, though I am not an analyst, it seems someone could come up with a better financial mix.
CO² Tonnage (by kWh of production)
Note that coal's Ash carbon dioxide content is factored into the linked studies.
Coal - Lignite 2.08 / kwh (worst Coal)
Coal - Anthracite 1.81 / kWh (best Coal)
Coal - Natural Gas extraction 1.68 /kWh
Wind 1.27 /kWh (500 foot turbines slated for Bingham)
#2 Fuel oil 1.22 /kWh
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Solar Photovoltaic is the worst of any so-called "Green" energy technology
with Solar Thermal slightly lower in overall Cradle to Grave pollutants
NOTE:
Wind was calculated by
LCA Life Cycle Assessment
Raw Materials, construction, transportation, installation, recycle ,dismantle, disposal
Additional Pollutants were not factored into the linked studies.
Conversion factor used: 1lb = 453.59g
Spreadsheet link: (3 sheets, still in progress)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fiZaQ-YfEKV8a2wbfZtCcDto1pM...
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on March 1, 2015 at 6:34pm
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The land occupation, that we need to utilize for what nature will provide not only in food nature or resources but tranquility of peace of mind, is our greatest loss. Destruction of that below is out of sight, out of mind. Destruction of that upon the surface is a crowding out of life's ability to continue in the manner which nature allows for at this period in time of the Earth's existance.
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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