Dixfield residents air views on wind ordinance

http://www.sunjournal.com/news/river-valley/2012/05/10/dixfield-residents-air-views-wind-ordinance/1193817#comment-99163

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You may have heard that the 2011 annual report of the American Wind Energy Association is available on line. (To see it, do a Google search for the Coalition for Sensible Siting and then scroll down once you’re at the site.) The AWEA document states that AWEA received a leaked advance copy of the USFWS’s draft Eagle Conservation Plan Guidance (ECPG) before it was made available for public comment. So if you’ve ever wondered how the wind industry…

  The Mark Richey Woodworking Co in Newburyport, MA put up a 600 KW turbine at its plant in March  of 2009, accompanied by much publicity, etc.   It is the same size (600 KW) and manufacturer as UMPI's turbine, which went up two months later in the same year.  There is a website that reports steadily on the Mark Richey Co. turbine's output;  UMPI's website reports sporatically, at best.

Google:  Mark Richey Woodworking.

   As far as I know the Mark Richey's Co's turbine has not…

I figure a 3-year13.4% Capacity Factor for the Mark Richey Woodworking Co's turbine, which is identical to UMPI's. They both went into use three years ago.  The M. Richey Co.'s turbine and website are much more reliable than UMPI's, and Newburyport is on the MA coast, not inland. Nevertheless.....

Harrison Roper

Houlton/Danforth

Please read this, as it highlights the crazy approach being taken in an overreaction Global Warming hype from a environmentalist leader of the German Renewables Industry at RWE, a huge European power company! Germany is even further down the path of renewables. Will we learn their lessons?! Sadly he doesn't address harm to people and animals from the industrialization of the countryside.

My favor quote is 

 But in 2009 there was little wind in the UK,…

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

The UMPI turbine site has just posted a new power production figure::

Since mid-November of 2011, the turbine produced 302,150 kWh for UMPI.  

That's 164 days, an average of 1,842 kWh per day.

302,150 kWh divided by 164 gives an average of 1,842 kwh per day produced since it was fixed.  

It is a 600 kw turbine; 600 kw X 24 hours is 14,400 kWh per day "installed capacity".  

1,842 kWh (recorded average daily power production) divided by 14,400 kWh (installed…

Academia, including the University of Maine is one of the forces that blindly supports politically correct wind energy. Many universities can simply never be "green" enough, even if they don't quite know what that means or that their dogma-driven goals are largely ill conceived.

Following is an excerpt on how the UMS System blindly approved the UMPI wind turbine disaster:

"The University prepared carefully for a discussion of the wind project at the September…

PLEASE GO  TO THE LINK BELOW TO  READ THE REPORT , THE  REPORT IS  NOT  AVAILABLE  ON  THE OEIS  WEBSITE ., THE REPORT  SHOULD  BE  PRESENTED  TO  GOVERNOR LEPAGE  SOON.

MONIQUE 

The Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security (OEIS) released its Maine Wind Energy Development Assessment – Report and Recommendations, March…

The following eight Republicans went against their party's leader, Governor LePage and agreed with the wind industry that running water is not renewable. By effectively banning large inexpensive Canadian hydro power as a renewable, they have granted yet one more subsidy in kind to the parasitic wind industry…