Jim Lutz's Posts - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T05:04:37ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutzhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1548431494?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blog/feed?user=3eblz4axzkpya&xn_auth=noNot That We Didn't Already Know, But Going Green KILLS!!!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2022-04-18:4401701:BlogPost:2389162022-04-18T22:16:17.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Green New Deal, being promoted worldwide, is causing famine, inflation, trade problems . . . . you name it . . . issues that are confounding and have to be reversed.…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Green New Deal, being promoted worldwide, is causing famine, inflation, trade problems . . . . you name it . . . issues that are confounding and have to be reversed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://patriotpost.us/articles/87697?mailing_id=6614&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6614&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body">https://patriotpost.us/articles/87697?mailing_id=6614&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.6614&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body</a></span></p>It's time to dig this up again. Watch my right hand - - - there is nothing to see in my left!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2021-01-28:4401701:BlogPost:2032572021-01-28T14:55:44.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>It is really not important that this is a political issue and whether you support Biden or Trump . . . . It is an issue of real science vs. pseudo-science developed by international <strong><u>economists</u></strong> to control the economic imbalance of the world. It is a New World Order plan to transfer wealth, not improve the climate or save the world from "Climate Change" which is an undefinable quantity. They knew this when it was developed and have continued to deny their own facts with…</p>
<p>It is really not important that this is a political issue and whether you support Biden or Trump . . . . It is an issue of real science vs. pseudo-science developed by international <strong><u>economists</u></strong> to control the economic imbalance of the world. It is a New World Order plan to transfer wealth, not improve the climate or save the world from "Climate Change" which is an undefinable quantity. They knew this when it was developed and have continued to deny their own facts with the help of a complicit media and phony scientists. This has been admitted to by the founders of the IPCC several times but has never been taken up by the main stream media and the NWO leaders that are traditionally on the left, but included The Bush's. We have had four decades of brainwashing and fear that our world was going to come to an end and the only way out was to cripple the USA and fossil fuel energy.</p>
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<li>"The former co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015, Ottmar Edenhofer <a href="http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/another-climate-alarmist-admits-real-motive-behind-warming-scare/"><strong>let slip</strong></a> that, <em>“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”"</em></li>
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<p>From Wikipedia:</p>
<p>Edenhofer completed his Diploma in Economics at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Maximilian_University_of_Munich">Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich</a>. Edenhofer says that his interest in philosophy and economics was influenced by his readings of the works of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George">Henry George</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx">Karl Marx</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Weber">Max Weber</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein">Ludwig Wittgenstein</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey">John Dewey</a>, all Marxist, Socialist or Progressive economists and philosophers, <strong>NOT climate scientists</strong>.</p>
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<li>At a news conference in Brussels in 2015, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism. She is an Anthropologist and Diplomat, <strong>not a climate scientist</strong>. Her Husband was former head of the World Bank’s sustainable development unit.</li>
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<p><br/> <em>"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reining for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said.<br/> Referring to a new international treaty environmentalists hope will be adopted at the Paris climate change conference later this year, she added: "This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model for the first time in human history."</em></p>
<p>The only economic model in the last 150 years that has ever worked at all is <strong>capitalism</strong>. The evidence is prima facie: From a feudal order that lasted a thousand years, produced zero growth and kept workdays long and lifespans short, the countries that have embraced free-market capitalism have enjoyed a system in which output has increased 70-fold, work days have been halved and lifespans doubled.<br/> Figueres is perhaps the perfect person for the job of transforming "the economic development model" because she's really never seen it work. "If you look at Ms. Figueres' Wikipedia page," notes Cato economist Dan Mitchell: Making the world look at their right hand while they choke developed economies with their left.<br/> <a href="http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.investors.com%2Fpolitics%2Feditorials%2Fclimate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism%2F%3ADXt9f29t1pI2ccYek8diWFRMpVw&cuid=399382">http://www.investors.com/po...</a></p>
<p>They have denounced the best energy, nuclear, even though it is probably the cheapest and safest. They have denounced the next safest and cheapest, hydro, as being detrimental to the environment. They have taken out "Fracking" as being dangerous in spite of the fact that it is 15,000 feet below any known water table. They have pronounced that vehicles can be propelled cleanly by electricity neglecting to tell you that they cannot travel long distances, would have to be charged from an electric grid that is already overstressed, and would be more so without nuclear, hydro, gas and coal.</p>
<p>This is NOT a political fight but a fight for the viability of our future both economically and physically. The only leaders that can make this happen are NOT those proposing some fantasy of "The Green New Deal" or climate change. The climate has been changing for 4½ BILLION years and has been a LOT warmer and a LOT colder than it is now. All you have to do is look at the predictions they have made since the 70's where they first called for a new "Ice Age" then when they realized that was a loser to move to "Global Warming" and when that failed moved to "Climate Change", an amorphic label that really can NOT be proved. </p>
<p>We finally have had some "politicians" that have pushed back on this and have withdrawn from the NWO. They realize the phoniness of the fabricated data and are willing to explore new roads to energy success. We only have to wait for rates to increase for electricity, heating fuel, gasoline, diesel fuel, transportation, etc, to be able to fight back and get to where we have been for the last four years. </p>
<p> </p>Here We Go Again . . . . New News from OUR Governor!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2020-11-20:4401701:BlogPost:2010672020-11-20T18:30:00.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Governor Mills is at it again. With all the shortfalls in government funding facing Maine in the age of Covid, Janet has decided this is the time to put turbines in the ocean 20 - 40 miles offshore in an experiment to see if they are viable. She is supposedly partnering with the…</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Governor Mills is at it again. With all the shortfalls in government funding facing Maine in the age of Covid, Janet has decided this is the time to put turbines in the ocean 20 - 40 miles offshore in an experiment to see if they are viable. She is supposedly partnering with the fishing industry to try this. They have no idea of the cost of this folly, the impact to the fishing industry, the impact to the shipping lanes that are roughly in this corridor, whether they can even sell the energy for a reasonable price, what maintenance costs will be, whether floating turbines are even viable this far offshore, etc, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This is also being floated (sic) by the University of Maine and their loco crew. I am horrified that this is even being brought up at this point. We have been shielded for the last four years from this lunacy, but with things like they are now . . . . we all know what that means . . . . get ready for the onslaught of more of these plans.</span></p>
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<p><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/20/mills-plans-nations-first-offshore-research-wind-farm-in-gulf-of-maine/?utm_source=Press+Herald+Newsletters&utm_campaign=01720d6982-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_20_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b674c9be4b-01720d6982-200146503">https://www.pressherald.com/2020/11/20/mills-plans-nations-first-offshore-research-wind-farm-in-gulf-of-maine/?utm_source=Press+Herald+Newsletters&utm_campaign=01720d6982-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_20_05_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b674c9be4b-01720d6982-200146503</a></p>Vermont is Listed as the State With Highest "Renewable" Portfoliotag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-08-14:4401701:BlogPost:1069532017-08-14T01:00:00.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Our friends at AOL business just published a list with all 50 (or is it 57) states and how they stack up as far as "renewables" are concerned. Vermont is # 1 and Maine is # 5. Interesting, however, is the fact that all the top 10 list HYDRO as the reason they are renewable winners. The ones touting wind and solar are in places where there is little running water and are much further down the list. I think we are missing a huge opportunity to take Maine back to a state where hydro powered…</p>
<p>Our friends at AOL business just published a list with all 50 (or is it 57) states and how they stack up as far as "renewables" are concerned. Vermont is # 1 and Maine is # 5. Interesting, however, is the fact that all the top 10 list HYDRO as the reason they are renewable winners. The ones touting wind and solar are in places where there is little running water and are much further down the list. I think we are missing a huge opportunity to take Maine back to a state where hydro powered EVERYTHING! We have to stop worrying about wild fish and start worrying about right and wrong. Tearing out perfectly good hydropower dams is senseless and irresponsible when alternatives can be made for fish. Existing dams could be retrofitted with new turbines for the price of ONE wind turbine, and produce 100 times as much continuous power. Small scale dams that take advantage of flow, not reservoirs, could be established with little or no disruption of the surrounding environment. Small turbines are available for city water systems, put in the pipes and producing power that flows constantly.</p>
<p>We have to have our elected officials and their staffs explore these other roads to power.</p>
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<p> <a href="http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/04/20/states-producing-the-most-renewable-energy/?utm_source=AOL&utm_medium=CPC&utm_content=states-producing-the-most-renewable-energy&utm_campaign=AOL">http://247wallst.com/special-report/2017/04/20/states-producing-the-most-renewable-energy/?utm_source=AOL&utm_medium=CPC&utm_content=states-producing-the-most-renewable-energy&utm_campaign=AOL</a></p>Denmark’s Anti-Wind Problem: Wind News Update Lisa Linowestag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-08-09:4401701:BlogPost:1064772017-08-09T22:14:10.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Everyone always hears the windies speaking highly of the way Denmark is making all their energy with wind power. Well, that's not entirely true, and it looks like the bloom is off the Rose. Seems they only produce 38% of their energy from wind and that dropped because they decommissioned more turbines than they built. They have a land mass a little bigger than the state of Maryland and wind turbines, covering a great deal of the land and the waters surrounding it only produce 5.2 GW of…</p>
<p>Everyone always hears the windies speaking highly of the way Denmark is making all their energy with wind power. Well, that's not entirely true, and it looks like the bloom is off the Rose. Seems they only produce 38% of their energy from wind and that dropped because they decommissioned more turbines than they built. They have a land mass a little bigger than the state of Maryland and wind turbines, covering a great deal of the land and the waters surrounding it only produce 5.2 GW of power. They are starting to get resistance from the citizens over the high rates and land destruction. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/wind-news-update-denmarks-anti-wind-problem/">https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/wind-news-update-denmarks-anti-wind-problem/</a></p>Delingpole: Climate Mafia Caught Tampering With Evidence Again…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-07-06:4401701:BlogPost:1038092017-07-06T04:10:59.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">They are at it again. They have found a new reason to manipulate the dataset for their bogus AGW Climate Models.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>“Correcting for problems caused by the decaying of satellites.” Yup. We’ve all been there haven’t we? One minute you’re heading innocently down Highway One to look at the cute sea otters, the…</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">They are at it again. They have found a new reason to manipulate the dataset for their bogus AGW Climate Models.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><span>“Correcting for problems caused by the decaying of satellites.” Yup. We’ve all been there haven’t we? One minute you’re heading innocently down Highway One to look at the cute sea otters, the next you’ve somehow strayed over the Niagara Falls. Your stupid satnav failed to take those pesky “problems caused by the decaying of satellites” into account. And until now, no scientist was clever enough to notice…</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">But as Tony Heller points out there are several good reasons why there’s a distinctive rat-like smell about the whole enterprise.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">One is that this exactly what Heller predicted two years ago would happen:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Look for the satellite data to be adjusted to bring it into compliance with the fully fraudulent surface temperatures. The Guardian is now working to discredit UAH, so it seems likely that RSS will soon be making big changes – to match the needs of the climate mafia. Bookmark this post.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">UAH, by the way, refers to University of Alabama, Huntsville – which is the only other satellite temperature gatekeeper (and, as of this week, the only credible one) in the world run by two skeptics John Christy and Roy Spencer. The reason they are skeptics is because the data they maintain gives them good reason to be skeptical: viz, while the (heavily-adjusted) surface temperature data sets show dramatic warming, their (more reliable) satellite data does not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">Marvel for yourself at the divergence:</span></p>
<p><a href="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-10.01.15-AM.gif"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7034094" src="http://media.breitbart.com/media/2017/07/Screen-Shot-2017-05-01-at-10.01.15-AM.gif" alt="" width="673" height="520"/></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">A principle of the scientific process is that 'when data contradict the model, go with the data.' It seems that the 'community formerly known as scientific' has changed this to 'when data contradict the model, adjust the data to agree.'</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3">A scientist does not adjust data to the model, they can attempt to explain it and propose an adjusted interpretation, but the data itself should be presented with the interpretation.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/05/delingpole-climate-mafia-caught-tampering-with-the-evidence-again/">http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/05/delingpole-climate-mafia-caught-tampering-with-the-evidence-again/</a></span></p>Maine Audubon hires longtime L.L. Bean executive as new directortag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-06-20:4401701:BlogPost:1021352017-06-20T17:29:02.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>I wonder if the members of Audubon really know the depth Audubon is into the Wind Industry's pockets.</p>
<p><span>With the way Andy Beahm describes his absolute wonder and appreciation of the beautiful Maine Wilderness and what it has meant to the way he was brought up and the the way he continues to see it, it is perplexing how he can throw his entire being into an organization like Maine Audubon that has sold its soul to destroying the environment. By accepting huge grants from the wind…</span></p>
<p>I wonder if the members of Audubon really know the depth Audubon is into the Wind Industry's pockets.</p>
<p><span>With the way Andy Beahm describes his absolute wonder and appreciation of the beautiful Maine Wilderness and what it has meant to the way he was brought up and the the way he continues to see it, it is perplexing how he can throw his entire being into an organization like Maine Audubon that has sold its soul to destroying the environment. By accepting huge grants from the wind turbine developers in the state and backing their bird shredding agenda they have abandoned the principals of their founders Muir, Pearson and Grinnel who followed the advice of John James Audubon's wife Lucy in founding the organization. Their Mission was "Our mission is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth’s biological diversity." </span><br/><span>Destroying wilderness for industrial purposes does not exactly stack up to the mission.</span></p>
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<h1><span class="font-size-3"><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/19/maine-audubon-names-third-director-in-three-years/comments/">http://www.pressherald.com/2017/06/19/maine-audubon-names-third-director-in-three-years/comments/</a></span></h1>Dilbert on Climate Changetag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-05-15:4401701:BlogPost:994892017-05-15T23:26:44.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Usually Liberal Dilbert artist Scott Adams has raised the ire of the Warmers with his latest edition. Thought you might enjoy it.</p>
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<p>Usually Liberal Dilbert artist Scott Adams has raised the ire of the Warmers with his latest edition. Thought you might enjoy it.</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561543490?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="750" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1561543490?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="674" class="align-full" height="328"/></a></p>Message regarding EPA - - - - This is my post.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-05-12:4401701:BlogPost:996132017-05-12T03:35:59.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p><span class="font-size-2">The EPA and DOE have been highly instrumental in crippling the economy in the United States. The entire "Climate Change" scam was developed to "fundamentally transfer wealth" from the US to the rest of the world. That quote is directly from the former Co-Chair of the IPCC, Ottmar Edenhofer, a pro Marxist ECONOMIST, not a scientist. The sooner we can extricate ourselves from the Paris agreement and the UN-IPCC, and get our scientists out from under the blanket they…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The EPA and DOE have been highly instrumental in crippling the economy in the United States. The entire "Climate Change" scam was developed to "fundamentally transfer wealth" from the US to the rest of the world. That quote is directly from the former Co-Chair of the IPCC, Ottmar Edenhofer, a pro Marxist ECONOMIST, not a scientist. The sooner we can extricate ourselves from the Paris agreement and the UN-IPCC, and get our scientists out from under the blanket they have been stifled under for the last 20 years, the better we will be, the more jobs we will create and the more our economy will recover.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The climate is changing and has been changing for the last 4 billion years. We have to learn to live with that natural change, though it is not going to be catastrophic. CO2 has never been reliably tied to warming scientifically, only on flawed computer models. Renewable energy is never going to take the place of energy dense fossil fuels, nuclear or hydro power. Renewable energy will never provide cheap, reliable, continuous energy. These are facts and we have been fed a litany of lies on what they produce, how much it costs, how many people they employ, how few birds they kill, how they don't make any noise, how they don't spoil the landscape of scenic places, and I can go on.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">The problem with these industries is that they rely completely on the "investment" of government subsidies to build them and then RPG's to prop up the price of what they have to charge to make them competitive. Those are taxpayer dollars! They are going into the pockets of elite "investors" that take the money, put in little of their own and then operate these companies taking more and more tax dollars to run them. Anyone remember Enron? Most of these "investors" are old Enron guys with a new angle. The whole thing is a fraud and many of them have absconded with the money . . . Sun Edison being the biggest, so far leaving the shareholders with NOTHING.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2">Believe me, the last forty years or so has seen a huge improvement to our environment. Our air is clean, our water is clean, our rivers have been cleaned up, waste is now being sensibly disposed of, and I do not see a return to the excesses or pollution we saw during the 40's,50's and 60's. Those days are over, but we have to return to what made us great, and that is going to require energy, energy that can't be provided by windmills and solar panels. As far as I'm concerned anyone can put solar on their house if they choose, but I should not have to pay for it through subsidies (my taxes). Windmills belong back in the 1600's, not in the 21st century. I have faith that we can be responsible stewards of our planet and still use what got us here, fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro power. </span></p>Extremely Urgent Message! This requires looking at.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-05-12:4401701:BlogPost:993672017-05-12T03:00:00.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
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<div><font face="BookAntiqua,Book Antiqua,Palatino Linotype,Palatino,serif"><span>I will post my reply in a separate post. Please feel free to use any or all of it and add to it if you want. You do not have to post your…</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="BookAntiqua,Book Antiqua,Palatino Linotype,Palatino,serif"><span>I will post my reply in a separate post. Please feel free to use any or all of it and add to it if you want. You do not have to post your personal information like on some of the government posts. There are an awful lot of people out there against us, so the more postings the better.</span></font></div>
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</div>Wanna' Know Why Our Electric Bills Are So High???tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-04-29:4401701:BlogPost:984502017-04-29T00:00:43.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Whenever we end up commenting on articles found in our PPH or BDN there are always twits on there that tell us "Why don't the fossil fuel industries give up their subsidies?" Well here is some ammunition for you to use when commenting back. Hopefully these subsidies will dry up and make the "Renewable Energy" sector have to stand on their own two feet. Won't it be nice?…</p>
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<p>Whenever we end up commenting on articles found in our PPH or BDN there are always twits on there that tell us "Why don't the fossil fuel industries give up their subsidies?" Well here is some ammunition for you to use when commenting back. Hopefully these subsidies will dry up and make the "Renewable Energy" sector have to stand on their own two feet. Won't it be nice?</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2017/04/28/tax_subsidies_for_renewables_now_far_outpaces_fossil_fuels_110217.html">http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2017/04/28/tax_subsidies_for_renewables_now_far_outpaces_fossil_fuels_110217.html</a></p>Earth Day Predictions That Failed - - - A few good laughstag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-04-21:4401701:BlogPost:981292017-04-21T22:35:30.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>An Article that should prepare us for questions from any AGW enthusiasts we may run in to. Just try asking them to explain a few of these 97% consensus predictions from the first Earth Day in 1972. You should get a few laughs.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/24/seven-big-failed-environmentalist-predictions/">http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/24/seven-big-failed-environmentalist-predictions/</a></p>
<p>An Article that should prepare us for questions from any AGW enthusiasts we may run in to. Just try asking them to explain a few of these 97% consensus predictions from the first Earth Day in 1972. You should get a few laughs.</p>
<p><a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/24/seven-big-failed-environmentalist-predictions/">http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/24/seven-big-failed-environmentalist-predictions/</a></p>U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-04-19:4401701:BlogPost:978482017-04-19T18:58:22.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<h1><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;">U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people!</span></h1>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #008000;">This may be more baloney from the wind shills at the PPH. They also say there are more than 260,000 people involved in the Solar Industry. I am really hoping that the elimination of subsidies to these industries will stop this madness. I know there are not that many here in Maine, but ONE is too many.…</span></p>
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<h1><span class="font-size-3" style="color: #ff0000;">U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100,000 people!</span></h1>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #008000;">This may be more baloney from the wind shills at the PPH. They also say there are more than 260,000 people involved in the Solar Industry. I am really hoping that the elimination of subsidies to these industries will stop this madness. I know there are not that many here in Maine, but ONE is too many.</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="color: #008000;"><a href="http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/19/u-s-wind-industry-now-employs-more-than-100000-people/%C2%A0">http://www.pressherald.com/2017/04/19/u-s-wind-industry-now-employs-more-than-100000-people/ </a>;</span></p>
<p></p>Published Comment to DOE . . . Please submit one by March 22!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-03-06:4401701:BlogPost:941932017-03-06T17:22:52.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Here is Mine: I had help from Long Islander and Chris O'Neil and only hope it makes a difference with the New DOE.</p>
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<p align="center"><b>Comments on Monhegan Island Offshore Wind Project to DOE</b></p>
<p>This is to call your attention to a situation in Maine which I believe is a poster child for how the forgotten American is being robbed and disrespected by the renewable energy special interests and their coterie of shills. As you will see, there is a time sensitive element to…</p>
<p>Here is Mine: I had help from Long Islander and Chris O'Neil and only hope it makes a difference with the New DOE.</p>
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<p>This is to call your attention to a situation in Maine which I believe is a poster child for how the forgotten American is being robbed and disrespected by the renewable energy special interests and their coterie of shills. As you will see, there is a time sensitive element to this letter as the Department of Energy is now looking to hand out $40 million in grants to a project which in my opinion would never exist absent tax and spend politicians who have mindlessly embraced the shiny new toy of renewable energy.</p>
<p><b><u>Background</u></b></p>
<p>In 2008, Governor John Baldacci and his subordinates in Maine put forth a bill called “The Expedited Wind Energy Act” and passed it through the Maine Legislature with absolutely no debate and no objections. Below is the link that they made a case for a headlong rush into the wind industry, saying “Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind.” Their reasoning had many errors and outright lies in the proposal and got broad support based on those statements. In the time since, most of those have been proven to be false and yet the subsidy seekers continue to try and put through more and more industrial wind projects in the state of Maine both on land and now offshore.</p>
<p>The bill constituted one of the most significant changes in the state’s land use laws in a generation. According to the nonpartisan Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting:</p>
<p>• It weakened longstanding rules that would have required wind turbines “to fit harmoniously into the landscape.” LURC director Catherine Carroll said, “That’s a huge change.”</p>
<p>• The bill cut off a layer of appeal for those protesting state permits for wind power.</p>
<p>• It set ambitious goals for the development of wind power that could result in 1,000 to 2,000 turbines being constructed along hundreds of miles of Maine’s landscape, including the highly prized mountaintops.</p>
<p><i>•</i> It opened every acre of the state’s 400 municipalities to fast-track wind development.</p>
<p>Baldacci said all this could be done without hurting Maine’s landscape or the tourism industry. The law is still largely in effect today.</p>
<p>According to Chris O’Neil, a former state legislator who now works as a public affairs consultant to groups opposing wind power development in Maine’s mountains, the governor’s vision was fundamentally flawed. “To fulfill the charge of making Maine a leader in wind power development and to simultaneously protect Maine’s quality of place is impossible,” O’Neil’s use of the phrase “quality of place” was surely intentional, as those precise words had oft been articulated by Governor Baldacci as Maine’s most important asset. On that count, Baldacci was right. Even a broken clock….</p>
<p>(<a title="https://www.brookings.edu/research/charting-maines-future-an-action-plan-for-promoting-sustainable-prosperity-and-quality-places/" href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/charting-maines-future-an-action-plan-for-promoting-sustainable-prosperity-and-quality-places/">https://www.brookings.edu/research/charting-maines-future-an-action-plan-for-promoting-sustainable-prosperity-and-quality-places/</a>)</p>
<p><b><u>Current Aqua Ventus Proposal</u></b></p>
<p>Monhegan Island is one of Maine’s idyllic places, an island that has been treasured by visitors and artists as well as residents who ply the surrounding waters for fish and lobsters as did their ancestors for generations. Putting wind turbine towers in these waters, ultimately twice the height of any building in the state of Maine, would be an unthinkable blight on the island. However, that is exactly what is on the wind proponents’ drawing boards, as a consortium of grant seekers, organized under the name “Aqua Ventus”, vies for $40 million in Department of Energy grants to build a demonstration wind project within three miles of the island. They do so under the higher moral purpose of saving the planet, but that is simply to camouflage what is but a callous quest for “free” government money, taxpayers and ratepayers be damned.</p>
<p><b><u>Existing Projects and Complications</u></b></p>
<p>In another part of the state, Aroostook County, EDP Renewables (EDPR) seeks to build the largest wind project in the state in its pursuit of “free money”. EDPR, which passes itself off as Texas-based, is in fact owned by a Portuguese company, Energias de Portugal, who has just sold part of their interest to China Three Gorges (CTG) because of debt problems. In fact, the latest Wikipedia entry for CTG now lists Energias de Portugal as one of CTG’s subsidiaries. We looked briefly for financial documents further evincing this relationship, but realized we had hit a wall when we learned that CTG is owned by the People’s Republic of China.</p>
<p><a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Three_Gorges_Corporation</a></p>
<p><b><i>Fake energy, to fix a fake problem (CO2) fleecing the American treasury, harming ratepayers, hurting our domestic industry of tourism and all for the benefit of China, who is hardly our friend. It’s quite frankly out of control, but exactly the sort of thing that happens when politicians sell out the forgotten American while providing concierge service to the special interests. (See current NOAA information of hiding the decline in global temperatures)</i></b></p>
<p><b><i><a title="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/h-sterling-burnett-climategate-redux-noaa-scientists-fudge-lose-data/" href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/h-sterling-burnett-climategate-redux-noaa-scientists-fudge-lose-data/">http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/02/21/h-sterling-burnett-climategate-redux-noaa-scientists-fudge-lose-data/</a></i></b></p>
<p>Power from our wind turbines does not support the people of Maine, rather is sent to Massachusetts and Connecticut and would not exist except for the vast subsidies and tax incentives given to the developers of these projects. (To say nothing of government mandated Power Purchase Agreements and public utility commissions making ratepayers fund the mammoth new transmission invariably required by any substantial introduction of wind power into an area). We in Maine have become the industrial wasteland of those states to our south that do not want their citizens and land exposed to wind towers. In fact, the politicians who put these projects through have become some of the wealthiest people in Maine as they left their political positions and morphed into management with the developers. In December 2015, Governor Baldacci, the father of the state’s heinous expedited wind law, was made Vice Chairman of Avangrid, the second largest wind company in America, and one headquartered in Spain, with significant ownership by Qatar and the UAE. Our Senator Angus King, who started the wind ball rolling while he was Governor, got very rich on his investment as a founder of Independence Wind, the first installer of wind turbines in Maine at Record Hill which came under investigation for Federal Loan Guarantee irregularities . His family is still involved with the company he started. (Conflict of Interest?) And of course, despite our having brought this seeming conflict to the attention of the Maine press, nary has a word been published. We sometimes think that the media works for this industry. We wouldn’t be surprised, as we know that the wind industry is not shy about throwing money around to curry favor, e.g. The Audubon Society and The Sierra Club, the so called environmental groups who unceasingly shill for the industry and take large donations. And that’s just the money one can readily see. In fact, the wind industry subsidies, originally birthed by Enron, are so large that one can’t help but think that they include a set aside for bribery.</p>
<p><b><u>Conclusions</u></b></p>
<p>Wind is a financial and political boondoggle that has managed to raise the rates and taxes of common people and businesses here in Maine while hurting our health, property values and landscapes, the latter key to one of our largest industries, tourism. The companies involved have changed hands so often it is going to be hard to track down who will be responsible for decommissioning them when the time comes. First Wind was the original owner who sold out to SunEdison, now bankrupt, who passed them on to TerraForm, itself is in trouble, and on to Portugal and finally China.</p>
<p>Wind and solar have not made a cent in profits except for the subsidies and tax benefits they get. They have caused instability in the grid system and higher delivery rates for ratepayers. Whenever the subsidies have been suspended, there has been no development. Two major investors in energy, Warren Buffett and T. Boone Pickens, have both determined that wind energy is a failure without government subsidies and tax incentives. Why do politicians continue to promote it? Perhaps big payouts to campaign funds by lobbyists.</p>
<p>Our National Energy policy is in a terrible turmoil, and most of it is because of ill advised “renewable energy” standards imposed on us by politicians, not scientists. We need to reanalyze our future and the costs that have been involved in creating this nightmare. We have spent nearly $2 trillion dollars (<a title="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/news/2015/03/investors-spent-a-record-2-trillion-on-renewables-report-says.html" href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/news/2015/03/investors-spent-a-record-2-trillion-on-renewables-report-says.html">http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/news/2015/03/investors-spent-a-record-2-trillion-on-renewables-report-says.html</a>) worldwide chasing a belief that something other than energy we already know is viable for our future, and it does not even meet 6% of the worldwide output of energy. In 2015 46% of our government investment in energy went to wind development and it rose to 74 GW, 5.6% of our base. (<a title="https://energy.gov/eere/articles/energy-department-reports-show-strong-growth-us-wind-power" href="https://energy.gov/eere/articles/energy-department-reports-show-strong-growth-us-wind-power">https://energy.gov/eere/articles/energy-department-reports-show-strong-growth-us-wind-power</a>) That is 74,000 Megawatts of plate power, and they usually only produce 25% of that, (18,500) and just yesterday, according to EIA, we used 9,370,000 MWH of electric energy for 46% of our $$ invested; That is insignificant. And as expensive as onshore wind is, the costs of bringing offshore wind power to the grid are going to be yet higher. Wind commonly only produces 25% of its rated output, though offshore might push 40%. That said, modern society requires instant power at the flick of a switch and, absent grid scale storage which is perhaps 40 years off despite wind industry-spawned fake news to the contrary, wind energy is simply not dispatchable as such, relying on the whims of Mother Nature. Full scale gas plants must remain operating to keep the system stable and that makes them inefficient. </p>
<p>Over the course of about a decade the New England grid will have lost to retirement 5000 to 8000 megawatts of reliable base load and peak load power plants. Most are coal, oil or nuclear units. These dispatchable generators cannot be replaced or even materially displaced by wind generation. Yet our national and regional policies still favor wind. The DOE would be better off investigating and financing a way to get more natural gas to Maine so one or two new gas generating power plants could be hooked up to the existing grid at a much reduced price and provide more energy than all the turbines they are proposing. Putting moderate amounts of investment into what could be true energy breakthroughs might also have a small place. But research is very different than simply doing the same thing over and over again (wind turbines) with the only result making fat cat insiders fatter.</p>
<p>All this really comes down to reliability and economics. And ultimately it comes down to whether politicians put Americans or the special interests, many foreign, first. Aqua Ventus is a drop in the bucket to the needs of our population and energy. It is a very expensive drop in the bucket, however, and the money spent would be much better targeted building a new nuke or several new gas plants. Not only will it be environmentally unfriendly, it will be grid unfriendly and economically unfriendly and will never produce enough reliable power for the Northeast Grid. </p>
<p>James J. Lutz</p>
<p>Bangor, ME</p>Newly Installed Wind Turbines in Plymouth, MA Causing Problems.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2017-02-23:4401701:BlogPost:932862017-02-23T18:32:47.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>As I originally lived in Plymouth, I am very familiar with the location of these turbines put up last summer in a residential section on the Bourne/Plymouth line. At the time the residents were assured by the developer that there would only be good things from the installation. There would be no appreciable noise and no ill effects. Of course these were all lies and now the residents are up in arms. The government is not really supporting the residents at this point just as it happened in…</p>
<p>As I originally lived in Plymouth, I am very familiar with the location of these turbines put up last summer in a residential section on the Bourne/Plymouth line. At the time the residents were assured by the developer that there would only be good things from the installation. There would be no appreciable noise and no ill effects. Of course these were all lies and now the residents are up in arms. The government is not really supporting the residents at this point just as it happened in Falmouth. At this point they are just calling for enhanced monitoring from the State, but they are in for the fight of their life and will have to have lawyers and their own "experts" to do real testing. </p>
<p><a href="http://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20170219/plymouth-and-bourne-residents-unite-in-effort-to-monitor-wind-turbines" target="_blank">http://plymouth.wickedlocal.com/news/20170219/plymouth-and-bourne-residents-unite-in-effort-to-monitor-wind-turbines</a></p>Theorytag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-05-24:4401701:BlogPost:556382014-05-24T17:25:49.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
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<p>Did anyone see the article about pictures from the Hubble Telescope that showed how the Giant Red Spot, a violent storm that has been seen on Jupiter since we have had telescopes that cold see it? Over the last 50 or so years it has shrunk to almost half its size. I was about to write a snarky article about global warming but got to thinking about something interesting. </p>
<p> I'm pretty sure there are no living beings on Jupiter that can be accused of…</p>
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<p>Did anyone see the article about pictures from the Hubble Telescope that showed how the Giant Red Spot, a violent storm that has been seen on Jupiter since we have had telescopes that cold see it? Over the last 50 or so years it has shrunk to almost half its size. I was about to write a snarky article about global warming but got to thinking about something interesting. </p>
<p> I'm pretty sure there are no living beings on Jupiter that can be accused of changing the climate to make changes to this storm., What it does show, however, is that there are climate changes on Jupiter, Mars, Venus, etc. that probably can't be traced to anything we have any knowledge of. We can theorize but the same goes for Earth, as climate change has been going on for billions of years and millions of cycles.</p>
<p>Anything scientists come up with is a THEORY, here and on Jupiter, and is based purely on hypotheses. What caused the Ice Ages and the warming periods that followed? What caused all the continents to split apart and move from tropical zones to the poles and back? What caused the great extinctions? Would one huge volcanic eruption push us back to another Ice Age? There are lots of questions and lots of theories. Science is like that and the <u>good</u> scientists don't call any theory "Settled Science." Why even Gravity, something we have come to depend and rely on is just a Theory. <br/> Just thinking.</p>
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<p>Jim Lutz</p>
<p>Bangor</p>Just When I Thought We Wre Making Progress!!!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-03-21:4401701:BlogPost:546062014-03-21T01:42:47.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>This is a case of "If you can't beat'em, Shut 'em up!!,"</p>
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<p><a href="http://patriotupdate.com/2014/03/professor-wants-climate-change-deniers-thrown-jail/" target="_blank">http://patriotupdate.com/2014/03/professor-wants-climate-change-deniers-thrown-jail/</a></p>
<p>This is a case of "If you can't beat'em, Shut 'em up!!,"</p>
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<p><a href="http://patriotupdate.com/2014/03/professor-wants-climate-change-deniers-thrown-jail/" target="_blank">http://patriotupdate.com/2014/03/professor-wants-climate-change-deniers-thrown-jail/</a></p>Scientifically Challengedtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-02-18:4401701:BlogPost:540642014-02-18T20:10:11.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>I have a new argument for those who choose to believe that Global Climate Change is "Settled Science". <br></br>How many of those same people believe that "Gravity" is settled science? It is NOT SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!! It is in fact a THEORY. It is a theory that has been challenged by the likes of Albert Einstien and others that I'm almost SURE are more scientist than the hacks at the IPCC and NOAA. I would put them miles ahead of pseudo scientists like the other Albert, Albert GORE.<br></br>I think…</p>
<p>I have a new argument for those who choose to believe that Global Climate Change is "Settled Science". <br/>How many of those same people believe that "Gravity" is settled science? It is NOT SETTLED SCIENCE!!!!! It is in fact a THEORY. It is a theory that has been challenged by the likes of Albert Einstien and others that I'm almost SURE are more scientist than the hacks at the IPCC and NOAA. I would put them miles ahead of pseudo scientists like the other Albert, Albert GORE.<br/>I think this is a most moving arguement to use when being challenged by the scientifically challenged leftists that continue to raise our taxes and electricity rates.</p>Is This Global Warming?tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-01-13:4401701:BlogPost:534302014-01-13T04:17:47.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>Is this Global Warming???<br></br>The climate alarmists are telling us that climate change is not dependent on one or two special storms or one or two seasons that don’t fit the norm, yet every time there is a special storm, it just further proves Climate Change is going on. When the weather people run through all the letters of the alphabet naming hurricanes they say “See, this proves Global Warming!” When they only use a few names, again they say “See.” I’m still not sure how they can have it…</p>
<p>Is this Global Warming???<br/>The climate alarmists are telling us that climate change is not dependent on one or two special storms or one or two seasons that don’t fit the norm, yet every time there is a special storm, it just further proves Climate Change is going on. When the weather people run through all the letters of the alphabet naming hurricanes they say “See, this proves Global Warming!” When they only use a few names, again they say “See.” I’m still not sure how they can have it both ways. <br/>This winter has been one of the coldest winters in history, history that goes back to where there were no thermometers, only memories. Even so, the expert scientists realize they have a tiger by the tail and have had to change their mantra to Climate Change, not Global Warming. Indeed, we have had two decades of climate COOLING, worldwide. We were told we would have no ice at the North Pole by 2013 . . . . well here it is 2014 and we have RECORD ice packs. It is summer time at the South Pole, something they have not bothered to mention in the biased media. There is a Russian Ship that has been stuck in a freak ice pack and there was a measurement of the temperature at McMurdo that set an all-time record, winter or summer. Imagine that!!! We were told that sea levels would be rising . . . they have not. We were told deserts may become drier, or they may become rain forests again. I’m not sure how that works and how they can have it both ways. <br/>This winter has made me sure of one thing though. Whatever we are calling this ice, snow and cold pattern, I am truly longing for Global Warming, at least here in Maine.</p>
<p>Jim Lutz<br/>Bangor</p>Reply to BDN Reply to Metag:www.windtaskforce.org,2014-01-13:4401701:BlogPost:535292014-01-13T04:12:26.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<div><font size="4">Why is it that these people have to go back more than a century to the old "Oil Barons" and what they did before all the rules and EPA regulations took effect. The oil companies employ almost as many people as the government and pay them with PROFITS made the old fashioned way. They have overcome the rules and regulations and still make 3 - 5% profit every year. Yes, that's a lot of money, but a very small percentage. And all those profits get plowed back into research…</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Why is it that these people have to go back more than a century to the old "Oil Barons" and what they did before all the rules and EPA regulations took effect. The oil companies employ almost as many people as the government and pay them with PROFITS made the old fashioned way. They have overcome the rules and regulations and still make 3 - 5% profit every year. Yes, that's a lot of money, but a very small percentage. And all those profits get plowed back into research and development. There were many years when they made no profit at all, but no one ever mentions that. The manipulation the writer below speaks of has come from government agencies and regulators.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Maine air is not polluted by the oil industry, in fact Maine air is almost as clean as it was before the industrial revolution took place. Was there a time when we had acid rain and other pollutants, sure there was. But most of that came from the huge iron and steel and heavy industries in the midwest. All of them are unfortunately gone, mostly being killed off by the out of control unions, bad management, and regulations that made them cost prohibitive and sent the jobs to China. So naturally our air and water have improved markedly. He can blame the greedy all he wants, but lets now add <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Al Gore</span> and the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wind Producers</span> to that list of greedy. They are backing up a losing industry and collecting the huge subsidies and putting them in their pockets. There are no jobs, there is no power, there will never be profits. The only thing they will produce is eyesores, cost overruns, grid failures, increased electricity rates and a few GREEDY, very wealthy investors; investors who put in none of their own money, only that of the already beleaguered taxpayers. Wake up People!!!</font></div>
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<p>There have been several times when comments I have made have been "reviewed" and rejected. I have taken them back and revised them slightly and then they have been posted. I use Disquis instead of Facebook. Last week I was replying to a particularly smarmy lib who takes delight in being belittling and nasty. He has been on for a long time and has always been the same. "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yessah</span>!" I think you know who I mean. I contacted the BDN about it…</p>
<p>There have been several times when comments I have made have been "reviewed" and rejected. I have taken them back and revised them slightly and then they have been posted. I use Disquis instead of Facebook. Last week I was replying to a particularly smarmy lib who takes delight in being belittling and nasty. He has been on for a long time and has always been the same. "<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Yessah</span>!" I think you know who I mean. I contacted the BDN about it and I think you know I have always been a responsible poster. I brought that to the attention of the BDN Editor, they reviewed what I said, and posted my reply immediately. I also did not see any more posts from our friend, who always has a smarmy reply.</p>German Economic Experts Ready to Pull the Plug on Costly Clean Energy Industrytag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-09-20:4401701:BlogPost:520342013-09-20T22:34:55.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<h1 class="post-title">German Economic Experts Ready to Pull the Plug on Costly Clean Energy Industry</h1>
<div class="post-meta clearfix"><span class="dateline">Sep. 20, 2013 10:18am</span> <span class="byline"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/author/becket-adams/" rel="author">Becket Adams</a></span><div class="social-tools-wrapper"><div class="share-container desktop-hide"><h4 id="share_button">Germany’s top economic advisers and business leaders are saying it’s time to stop pouring money…</h4>
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<div class="post-meta clearfix"><span class="dateline">Sep. 20, 2013 10:18am</span> <span class="byline"><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/author/becket-adams/" rel="author">Becket Adams</a></span><div class="social-tools-wrapper"><div class="share-container desktop-hide"><h4 id="share_button">Germany’s top economic advisers and business leaders are saying it’s time to stop pouring money into “clean energy” production.</h4>
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<p>“We need a drastic policy shift,” said Christoph Schmidt, chairman of Germany’s Council of Economic Experts. “They haven’t paid any attention to costs. These are now huge.”</p>
<p>Germany has long vowed to wean itself off of fossil fuels, but the cost of doing so has soared and it is expected to top roughly $1.3 trillion by 2030.</p>
<p>“It is a worthwhile goal, and the whole world is looking to see whether Germany can do it, so we can’t fail. But there have been so many mistakes,” Schmidt <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10321173/Germany-industry-in-revolt-as-green-dream-causes-cost-spiral.html" target="_blank">told the Daily Telegraph.</a></p>
<p>He stressed the country doesn’t have room to experiment with costly ventures as its own growth “speed limit” has dropped to one percent. And that’s on top of the fact that Germany is the most economically stable and profitable county in the EU.</p>
<p>The BDI, the country’s influential and powerful industry federation, agrees: “green romanticism,” as the Telegraph puts it, is wreaking havoc on Germany’s power supply.</p>
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<p>“The international competitiveness of German industry is in danger,” the group said in a new report, stressing that clean energy costs have become unacceptable.</p>
<p>The group also criticized the country’s preference for subsidizing wind and solar energy, calling for an eventual end to the practice altogether. The BDI said Germany needs to invest in a strategic reserve of fossil fuels to ensure that the country can stay up and running.</p>
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<p>The group says the country needs to act immediately to address its “urgent concerns,” according to Handelsblatt.</p>
<p>Germany’s affair with “green romanticism” has not been pretty. The country’s energy costs are more than any other country in Europe and they are twice U.S. levels.</p>
<p>German taxpayers are getting fed up with having to help subsidize exempted “clean” business.</p>
<p>“Spiraling energy costs will soon drive us into the wall. It has become dangerous,” the German Chemical Industry Association said.</p>
<p>EU’s energy commissioner Günther Oettinger has called for a revolution in Germany’s energy strategy.</p>
<p>“We need industry; we cannot be the good guys for the whole world, if no one follows suit,” he said.</p>
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<p>Six years ago, the BBC cited climate scientists in predicting that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013.</p>
<p>Instead, Arctic ice this August covered nearly a million more square miles of ocean than in August 2012 — an increase of 60 percent.</p>
<p>This has led Britain's Mail on Sunday to report: "Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of the century — a process that would expose computer forecasts of…</p>
<p>Six years ago, the BBC cited climate scientists in predicting that the Arctic would be ice-free in summer by 2013.</p>
<p>Instead, Arctic ice this August covered nearly a million more square miles of ocean than in August 2012 — an increase of 60 percent.</p>
<p>This has led Britain's Mail on Sunday to report: "Some eminent scientists now believe the world is heading for a period of cooling that will not end until the middle of the century — a process that would expose computer forecasts of imminent catastrophic warming as dangerously misleading."</p>
<p>The newspaper also asserted that global warming had paused since the beginning of 1997.</p>
<p>The pause is "important," the Mail stated, because predictions of ever-increasing global temperatures "have made many of the world's economies divert billions of pounds into 'green' measures to counter climate change. Those predictions now appear gravely flawed."</p>
<p>Arctic ice now extends from Canada's northern islands to Russia's northern shore, blocking the Northwest Passage, and more than 20 yachts that had planned to sail it from the Atlantic to the Pacific have been left ice-bound.</p>
<p>Professor Anastasios Tsonis of the University of Wisconsin, who has investigated ocean cycles, said: "We are already in a cooling trend, which I think will continue for the next 15 years at least. There is no doubt the warming of the 1980s and 1990s has stopped."</p>
<p>The Mail article, which has been criticized and even dismissed by some global warming proponents, points to evidence that Arctic ice levels are cyclical. There was a massive melt in the 1920s and 1930s, followed by an intense re-freeze that did not end until 1979 — the year the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the shrinking of Arctic ice began.</p>Letter to the DEP regarding the Bingham Meeting.tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2013-07-13:4401701:BlogPost:495062013-07-13T13:53:28.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<h1 align="center">James J. Lutz</h1>
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<p>Mr. Daniel Courtemanch</p>
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<p>July 12, 2013</p>
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<p>I will not be able to attend the meeting on July 22, 2013 regarding the Bingham Wind Project Proposal. I would like to put forth some questions that should be directed at the developers and get answers before another ridgeline in our beautiful state is destroyed by industrial wind. These questions are of vital importance before any shovel of earth is turned.</p>
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<li>Is our current grid substantial enough to adequately carry the fluctuations in the power that comes from wind generated power? If not, how much more money has to be paid by the Maine ratepayers to bring it up to standards? We just spent $1.4 billion and raised the rates between 12.5% and 19.8%, all paid by the ratepayers.</li>
<li>Will building this wind site allow us to close any of the currently operating gas or hydro generating plants? Will building ten more sites close any plants?</li>
<li>Will building this wind site improve our air quality or reduce CO2 emissions significantly?</li>
<li>Can this site be built and maintained without government subsidies? Are these companies willing to put up their own money to build these sites and operate them competitively?</li>
<li>What percentage of the turbines rated output will the actual output of the site be, not just on a good wind day, but on a yearly average? </li>
<li>How many actual permanent jobs will be created after the construction is finished? How many Mainers will be involved in the construction? How much of the actual materials used in the construction are created here in Maine? How much actually comes from overseas? </li>
<li>Can we be guaranteed that there will be no health issues from noise and shadow flicker? Can we be guaranteed that our property values will not be reduced or even wiped out by siting this wind facility. </li>
<li>Will the lights at night be able to be turned off and on by radar when a plane enters the airspace? Constant flashing lights are extremely annoying to the quality of place where we used to enjoy Dark Skies Bortle #1 Skys.</li>
<li>What are the rates that will be charged for wind generated power? How do they compare to the rates we currently get from gas and hydro powered energy? We have virtually no coal or oil produced electricity in Maine, so what will the wind do to our rates?</li>
<li>How many CO2 sequestering trees will have to be cut and kept from growing again with herbicides to build this project? This includes roads, turbine sites and surrounding clearcuts. Will the roads be kept up so they don’t wash out like the ones on other sites, with silt and soil washing into streams and brooks, and flowing down with their pesticides and herbicides into our lakes? I have pictures to show this happening on the Rollins Project.</li>
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<p>Mr. Courtemanch, these are serious questions that have not been adequately answered in the past. Our misguided policies have led us to a breaking point where the Department of Environmental Protection has shirked their responsibilities to the people of Maine for the folly of wind. These companies should be paying us and selling us energy at competitive rates if this was a good idea. They would be chomping at the bit to do this if it was profitable. But we are giving up our “Quality of Place” and paying for it to boot. The land in Maine is what people from away come here to see, to marvel at our vast wilderness just a few miles from any center of civilization. Maine has always had that quality, and industrial wind deprives us from that. </p>
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<p>Please pose these questions to the developers. I really don’t think they have any good answers for any of them. To be honest, I already have the answers from facts that we already know. This is just a bad plan for our future.</p>
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<p>Thank you in advance for your time, and I expect more than just a form letter in reply. Then I will know you have read it and thought about some of the questions yourself.</p>
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<p>Cc: Patricia Aho, Gov. Paul LePage, Sen. Andre Cushing,</p>I Wonder How Much Our Rates Will Go Up With This Project?tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-10-25:4401701:BlogPost:432242012-10-25T18:25:54.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>A $2 Billion electric line from Canada to Massachusetts by Emera and Bangor Hydro. With the $1.4 Billion grid upgrades costing us 12.5% and 19% already, I guess this will be another increase for us. Why can't they just leave us alone?…</p>
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<p>A $2 Billion electric line from Canada to Massachusetts by Emera and Bangor Hydro. With the $1.4 Billion grid upgrades costing us 12.5% and 19% already, I guess this will be another increase for us. Why can't they just leave us alone?</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wabi.tv/news/34615/2-billion-project-proposed-to-carry-renewable-energy-through-maine-to-massachusetts?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wabi%2Fnews+%28WABI+-+News%29">http://www.wabi.tv/news/34615/2-billion-project-proposed-to-carry-renewable-energy-through-maine-to-massachusetts?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wabi%2Fnews+%28WABI+-+News%29</a></p>I Think This Qualifies As GOOD NEWS!!!!tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-10-22:4401701:BlogPost:432102012-10-22T01:30:26.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>It looks like Danish wind turbine company, Vestas, is cutting back operations here in the USA. Read below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/13/Danish-Wind-Turbine-Company-That-Received-Over-50-Million-In-Stimulus-Lays-Off-800-Workers" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/13/Danish-Wind-Turbine-Company-That-Received-Over-50-Million-In-Stimulus-Lays-Off-800-Workers</a></p>
<p>It looks like Danish wind turbine company, Vestas, is cutting back operations here in the USA. Read below.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/13/Danish-Wind-Turbine-Company-That-Received-Over-50-Million-In-Stimulus-Lays-Off-800-Workers" target="_blank">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/13/Danish-Wind-Turbine-Company-That-Received-Over-50-Million-In-Stimulus-Lays-Off-800-Workers</a></p>A Reply to Charles Colgan's Energy Article in BDNtag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-10-20:4401701:BlogPost:431102012-10-20T03:43:14.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>I sent this to the BDN for publishing as an OpEd. Will see if it gets printed.</p>
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<p>What really scares me is having an economist like Charles Colgan teach our young people economic theory. He is completely antithetical to solid economic reasoning, something that most of the liberal economists continue to try and push down our throats. He believes that imposing onerous taxes and fees on certain…</p>
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<p>What really scares me is having an economist like Charles Colgan teach our young people economic theory. He is completely antithetical to solid economic reasoning, something that most of the liberal economists continue to try and push down our throats. He believes that imposing onerous taxes and fees on certain industries will level the playing field. This is communism. In a country where new and different industries are treated like that, every price goes up. Industries should be judged on their value to the customer, and the price set as to what the market will bear. If it is too expensive, it will die and something new will try and take its place. If it is subsidized, it will only increase the price and nothing new will come forth, forcing the customer to settle for something they don't want, but are forced to pay for. We are a FREE MARKET country, or at least we were until the last decade or so, and especially the last four years. This is really simple, and should be what is taught to young entrepreneurs of today. <br/>Let's look at some of the issues Mr. Colgan raises. <br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">First</span>, look at the picture attached to the story. If you notice, the exhaust rising from the stacks is white, not grey or black. Coal fired plants have been forced to clean up their act over the last 20 years, and at great cost have done so. In spite of the huge expenditures, the energy they produce is still among the cheapest power we have. New England has very few coal fired plants. <br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second</span>, raising everyone else's rates does NOTHING to reduce the high costs we pay here. Our costs are going up to pay for upgrades to our grid, a grid that is perfectly adequate to perform for us based on population expectations for the next forty years. The only thing that makes it unacceptable is trying to force huge amounts of wind power, power that is unreliable, skittering, pulsing and surging all the time. Our recent upgrade, $1.5 BILLION, is just a start, and it raised our rates for supply 20%. Iberdrola, the Spanish Wind company that now owns CMP, has told us we need further upgrades to the tune of $19 to $26 BILLION if we want to go further with wind. Just think how high our rates will go then!!! That is 20 times the current upgrade. Where is your economics now Mr. Colgan.<br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Third</span>, the carbon tax is a scam. Nothing more needs to be said. It is the creation of non-scientists and non-economists like Al Gore and his ilk. <br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fourth</span>, Angus King set the whole Wind Scam in motion as he left office and turned things over to Baldacci. He has been involved in the wind business since 1989 when he founded Northeast Energy Management who championed tearing down our dams to make way for wind. He sold the company in 1994 and netted (after taxes) $8 million. This funded the carpetbagger's run for Governor. On his way out the door of the Blaine House, he passed a bill that further set the course for wind. The bill set a goal to make Maine's energy 30% renewable, but excluded hydro . . . . isn't that interesting. Probably the cleanest, cheapest most environmentally friendly and totally renewable power source was excluded. He and his partner Rob Gardiner promptly opened up Independence Wind and petitioned the Baldacci regime for an open door to decimate our mountaintops. Please Professor Colgan. Do not try and minimize Angus King's participation.<br/><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fifth</span>, we are still watching some of the best power producers in our state ripped out. The dams in Old Town and Veazie, perfectly good and important to our state, are being torn out to restore sea run salmon and other fish to the Penobscot. There is no guarantee that the salmon will ever run up the river again, but there was a guarantee that those dams would have produced power, cheap and reliable, for the next hundred years. No one currently alive can ever remember a sea run salmon on the river. The dams have been there for more than 100 years. Building fish ladders around the dams would have been a cheaper and more energy saving alternative.<br/>I think that Professor Colgan should recheck his facts and figures before diving head first into waters he has no idea how deep they are, especially for Mainers. </p>
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<p>I just got back from a trip to Southern California. We have a real issue here in Maine with wind, but when you see the ugly mess they have made out there, I guess we should consider ourselves lucky. Turbines in Maine are spaced every few thousand feet . . . out there the turbines are spaced just far enough apart that the blades wont hit when they spin, and they cover miles and miles and thousands of acres. This is a fairly industrial area and is not all that beautiful to begin with, but…</p>
<p>I just got back from a trip to Southern California. We have a real issue here in Maine with wind, but when you see the ugly mess they have made out there, I guess we should consider ourselves lucky. Turbines in Maine are spaced every few thousand feet . . . out there the turbines are spaced just far enough apart that the blades wont hit when they spin, and they cover miles and miles and thousands of acres. This is a fairly industrial area and is not all that beautiful to begin with, but the turbines make it far worse. They fill the valley and sides of the hills for a stretch of about ten miles. </p>
<p>On another day, I took a trip north, toward a much more trendy part of California, Simi Valley. It is near Hollywood and Pasadena. It is where the "beautiful people" live. Guess what? I didn't see one windmill!!! Imagine that!!!! The hypocritical "environmentalists" do not put these ugly behemoths in their back yard. I guess they are kind of like dogs . . . they don't crap where they sleep. </p>
<p>They figure us "backwoods hicks" here in Maine can take the machines into our backyards and they won't put them where they live. We certainly don't need the power here in Maine as we produce twice as much as we need. Let them put them up where they are needed, in Mass, NY, Connecticut, NJ . . . all the places where they live. Then let's see how long it takes for the industry to die. </p>
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<p> </p>Grand Lake Picturestag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-10-06:4401701:BlogPost:423852012-10-06T14:31:38.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>I just looked at Bill Beavers' post of the pictures of what Grand Lake will look with wind turbines. While those pictures show what everyone knows will happen, the truly sad picture is when the sun goes down and the flashing red lights on the towers, and the white strobes on the control towers destroy the dark-sky viewing of our universe. For those of you who have not had that experience, take a ride to the Lincoln Lakes area at night and see what I am talking about. There are pictures…</p>
<p>I just looked at Bill Beavers' post of the pictures of what Grand Lake will look with wind turbines. While those pictures show what everyone knows will happen, the truly sad picture is when the sun goes down and the flashing red lights on the towers, and the white strobes on the control towers destroy the dark-sky viewing of our universe. For those of you who have not had that experience, take a ride to the Lincoln Lakes area at night and see what I am talking about. There are pictures posted on Brad Blake's photo gallery of the lakes at night. I could live with the daytime view if it was really providing meaningful, reliable and economic energy, but the night view is a tragedy.</p>Another Green Boondoggletag:www.windtaskforce.org,2012-09-29:4401701:BlogPost:422792012-09-29T17:34:59.000ZJim Lutzhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimLutz
<p>When the wind blows too hard, and there is not enough draw on the grid, the turbines have to be shut down. That means that the wind producers can't make money, and they now are being PAID to shut down their turbines. You just can't make this stuff up. How inefficient!!!!! How STUPID!!!! What a waste.</p>
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<p><a href="http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/03/wind-farms-being-paid-to-sit-idle/">http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/03/wind-farms-being-paid-to-sit-idle/</a></p>
<p>When the wind blows too hard, and there is not enough draw on the grid, the turbines have to be shut down. That means that the wind producers can't make money, and they now are being PAID to shut down their turbines. You just can't make this stuff up. How inefficient!!!!! How STUPID!!!! What a waste.</p>
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<p><a href="http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/03/wind-farms-being-paid-to-sit-idle/">http://lonelyconservative.com/2012/03/wind-farms-being-paid-to-sit-idle/</a></p>