GE CEO has been given the reigns of our economy by the President:

 This item has achieved "Innovative Award " by GE : A Cloth Windmill

A set back from stationary industrial noise emitting higher than World Health Organization standard.

How do I get this worded onto a town warrant article?

The capacity factor of a wind project depends on a number of different things and is site specific.  I cannot comment on the capacity factor of the Stetson project as I have not see those numbers, but there are several reasons why the UMPI capacity factor would be lower than that of Saddleback.  The UMPI turbine is a smaller turbine (600 kW), which is less efficient than a larger turbine,…

Outgoing Maine Dept of Marine Resources commissioner George Lapointe's final presentation on ocean windpower off Maine. 

(Photo is from a meeting a month earlier)

     In his 9 slide powerpoint George has a share-the-resource POV. Selling out ocean natural…

The following is a list of 29 bills relating to windpower (one or 2 include tidal energy) that will come before the Maine legislature between now and the close of the 2011 session. It comes from this list of more than 1,000 submitted bills accepted by the Maine legislature for this session. (58 page pdf file)  More about the Maine legislature…

Rufus brown did an excellent representation to the court. He was able to combined both the Oakfield and Roxbury cases as one. Noise is the major issue and the fact that the DEP will not give an open hearing concerning the projects and sound. If there was a hearing, then Rufus would be able to ask the "wind specialist" to prove their conclusions and to explain how they made there findings on the issues involved.

One justice even asked why the DEP didn't use this opportunity to allow a…

I spent yesterday afternoon in the State House researching out hydropower. With the help of a legislative reference librarian I got 18 pp. of energy related bills and two critical documents inventorying small hydropower sites in Maine.

In 1982, the State planning office prepared the MAINE COMPREHENSIVE HYDRO PLAN; it was updated in 1992; but 'apparently' not in 2002.  The report identified a total of 700.734 MW of capacity---unlike…

http://www.maine.gov/doc/parks/programs/planning/northern/documents/WMtnsPublicMtgMinutes.pdf

Freeman Tibbetts spoke about wind power proposals in the Western Mountains of Maine and

shared with Bureau staff CDs of aerial photography he took on a flight over the mountains.…

I read this article in today's Portland Press-Herald and had to laugh that after years of Governor Baldacci and NRCM telling us that wind power will "help get Maine off of foreign oil", there is nary a mention of wind or electricity in an article about reduced oil usage. Of course the reason for this is that wind won't displace a drop of oil and the only things wind will succeed at is driving Maine's already high non-competitive electricity costs through the roof, despoiling our quality of…

The Bangor Daily News recently ran an editorial where out-going Dept of Conservation Commissioner was expressing concern about the incoming Governor cutting parks budget.  This is my response:

Save the Parks and Public Reserved Lands from Turbines

When did Eliza Townsend ever speak up to Baldacci about the greatest single threat to…

The UMPI turbines' website reports average power output of 3,379.7 kWh per day for 12/22 - 12/31. This from a turbine which has "installed capacity" of 14,200 kWh per day.  So, the turbine achieved 23.8 % of its installed capacity forthe period. 

  The best day in the 10-day period was December 22, when it produced 5784 kWh. This is 40.7 % of installed capacity, and is unusually high for a wind turbine.   Still, this was the result of the equivalent of ten hours of "good" wind .... I…

Please click on the PDF file below entitled "Maine’s Wind Goals, CO2 and the Forest." The document is intended to put Governor Baldacci's wind goals into perspective.

 MainesWindGoalsCO2andtheForest_12-30-10.pdf

NRCM has published figures on CO2…

The following is excerpted from an article in today's Maine Sunday Telegram. Bats are under serious pressure from White-Nose Syndrome. Do we really need additional bat mortality from wind turbine caused barotrauma?

"Biologists say fewer bats, which eat insects, could lead to increased numbers of pests, resulting in harm to agriculture and forests. It is anticipated that white-nose syndrome will continue to spread, partly because the fungus can be carried on humans'…

PEER (Public Employees for environmental Responsibility) lifts the rock under which the Cape Wind political maggots have been hiding, gnawing away at our environment. Something to consider as Maine looks to de-wind its waters.

FEDERAL AGENCIES FLYING BLIND IN CAPE WIND APPROVALS — Internal E-Mails Admit Huge Data Gaps, Inability to Monitor and Pursue Mitigation

For Immediate…

• DECEMBER 22, 2010

A Wind Power Boonedoggle

T. Boone Pickens badly misjudged the supply and price of natural gas.

Bird Migration Study Could Impact Windpower Siting Off Maine Coast

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