Maine Public | By Fred Bever
Published February 1, 2022 at 9:15 PM EST
So you signed up to participate in one of the new "community solar" projects that are popping up around the state, and feeling pretty good about using renewable energy. Not so fast, though. One state official says the program's structure can result in customers consuming more fossil-fuel energy than before, potentially…
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Added by Long Islander on February 3, 2022 at 12:00am —
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More Focus On The Impossible Costs Of A Fully Wind/Solar/Battery Energy System
February 01, 2022/ Francis Menton
It should be glaringly obvious that, if we are shortly going to try to convert to a “net zero” carbon emissions energy system based…
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Added by Willem Post on February 2, 2022 at 6:12pm —
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Saturday, January 22, 2022 was a very cold day in the Northeast. Montreal was -15 F. The Net Imports to New England drop to 354 MW at 5:50 AM -- unusually low. 'HQ_P1_P2' is power from Quebec and 'SALBRYNB' is power from New Brunswick.

Quebec was importing power from…
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Added by Warren Van Wyck on January 31, 2022 at 4:30pm —
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Don’t They Know We Will Still Need Oil & Gas?
JANUARY 30, 2022
tags: gas, oil
By Paul Homewood
It is abundantly clear that all our major parties are now opposed to further development of North Sea oil and gas reserves.…
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Added by Willem Post on January 31, 2022 at 7:10am —
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This example shows storage would need to be very large, in order for wind and solar to supply 100% of electrical requirements, which is only 23% of total primary energy requirements.
El Hierro is the second-smallest and farthest-south and -west of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean , off the coast of …
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Added by Willem Post on January 28, 2022 at 11:00am —
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vowed Thursday to stem rising traffic fatalities by imposing a host of fresh restrictions on everyday drivers while boosting those who choose to walk or use bicycles.
To that end he seeks more dedicated bus and bike lanes to get people out of their cars, retimed signals to favor pedestrians, enhanced speed cameras, greater traffic law enforcement and lower speed limits as part of the plan.
Buttigieg…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 27, 2022 at 11:30am —
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The provincial utility said it hopes to resume work, and expressed confidence that NECEC would win its legal challenges.
By Tux TurkelStaff Writer
Provincial utility Hydro-Quebec has stopped construction on the Canadian section of a transmission corridor that would hook up to the now-stalled $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect project in Maine.
The utility had started work on the 60-mile Appalaches-Maine interconnection from a substation near…
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Added by Long Islander on January 27, 2022 at 8:30am —
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Falmouth Massachusetts Abandons Town Owned Wind Turbines
In 2017 the Massachusetts courts shut down both town-owned Vestas V-82 type 1.65 megawatt wind turbines.
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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 27, 2022 at 8:16am —
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Updated 1/25/22
EXCERPT from Paul Ackerman's comments:
When the inventor of the MRNA technology,Dr.Robert Malone, risks his life** and reputation to call out the completely irresponsible use of the very technology he created to foist these "experimental vaccines" upon mankind, and the suggestion is made that one "...doesn't understand intelligent people thinking the Covid vaccine is a bad thing.." perhaps that reflects a deeply misinformed…
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 25, 2022 at 6:00pm —
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Thankfully this administration's insidious game of holding the public hostage to Covid-19 is ending. Breakthrough cases have become common as dirt and this reality is hitting people like a sledge hammer .......May God Damn this crooked Govt. and all of it's employees that have chosen…
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Added by Jim Wiegand on January 25, 2022 at 1:30pm —
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"Wherever he appears, Malone is billed as the inventor of mRNA vaccines. It’s in his Twitter bio. “I literally invented mRNA technology when I was 28,” says Malone, who is now 61. If that’s true—or, more to the point, if Malone believes it to be true—then you might expect him to be championing a very different message in his media appearances. According to …
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Added by arthur qwenk on January 24, 2022 at 11:00am —
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UKRAINE A GEO-POLITICAL PAWN OF US/UK/NATO TO WEAKEN RUSSIA…
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Added by Willem Post on January 23, 2022 at 10:30pm —
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by J.B. Shurk
January 23, 2022
Here’s what our COVID-1984 authoritarians want: they seek to use pandemics, wars, uncontrolled immigration, doomsday climate predictions, and “woke” cultural Marxism to keep people in a constant …
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Added by Thinklike A. Mountain on January 23, 2022 at 9:19pm —
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By P Gosselin on 23. January 2022…
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Added by Willem Post on January 23, 2022 at 5:30pm —
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A citizen's/PhD Covid revolt has started. And because these qualified people speak the truth, Biden, his Nazi friends and the media won't be able to stop it.…
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Added by Jim Wiegand on January 23, 2022 at 2:00pm —
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"Don't Step out of line if You support your patients and utilize your first amendment Mein Frau Doktor."
IF you do ,you will have the" Jack Boots" of Maine's Licensure board coming for you. " You are crazy Mein Frau, Doktor, to the Camp's with You"!
It is not about CCP Covid, It Is About Control!…
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Added by arthur qwenk on January 23, 2022 at 1:00pm —
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The Action of the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine V Dr. Meryl Nass.
(See Full Complaint Here).
Is there a Medical Gulag in Northern Maine for PC incorrect Maine Docs that Prescribe HCQ / Ivermectin?
Should a utilizer of their first amendment rights who HAPPENS TO BE an MD receive an Ordered Psychiatric Review for doing so and have their license…
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Added by arthur qwenk on January 23, 2022 at 10:00am —
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OPEN SESSIONS ON FEBRUARY 1-2
Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States
Nuclear energy could play an important role in moving towards net-zero emissions, but there are many economic, regulatory, and societal factors that determine whether expanding nuclear power is a feasible…
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Added by Kenneth Capron on January 22, 2022 at 9:27pm —
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VIDEO
The growing wind industry is increasingly looking to offshore to capture ample wind resources, especially in the Northeast U.S. However, the impact of this development on commercial fishermen, endangered species, and grid reliability is being ignored. Hear from a group of Rhode Island fishermen who are suing the federal government to properly enforce its laws and how Texas could be impacted by the outcome.
Speakers:
Bonnie Brady - Exec. Director,…
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Added by Long Islander on January 22, 2022 at 7:30am —
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People in the Central Maine Power service area in Maine are going to see a little cruise missile in their power bills this month. The electricity portion of our home's electric bill went from $.064494 per kilowatt hour to $.118161, an 83.2% increase. That's almost doubled, overnight.
If the price we paid through December 31st would have remained the same through the January portion of our billing period, we would have paid $58.68 for power. If the new rate would…
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Added by Bob Stone on January 21, 2022 at 8:08pm —
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