You don't know what you got til it's gone, so it's worth pausing for a few minutes and reviewing the amazing strength of Maine's outdoor brand versus the rest of the United States. Don't throw it away and allow giant industrial wind turbines and their requisite nasty new and huge transmission lines to spoil what we have.
Some very compelling observations of just how strong is the Maine outdoor brand:…
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Eric,
The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a pre-adoption meeting on its proposed Chapter 382: Wind Energy Act Standards rule at 1:00 PM on April 10, 2018 in the Department’s Response Training Room, 4 Blossom Drive (AMHI Complex), Augusta, Maine. I have attached copies of the Department’s…
Added by Eric A. Tuttle on April 3, 2018 at 11:00am — 2 Comments
Places like Texas and the Great Plains are the heartland of the nation's wind industry and accordingly, most thinking regarding wind power in the U.S. arose with states like those as context - states which are very different from Maine. Maine is 90% forest, …
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Millions of dollars of public money have been thrown away on a completely bogus feel good single wind turbine at UMPI and finally the project goes down in flames. What did the people of Maine get for their investment and why won't the University and the Maine media tell the people just how badly they've been had?
And now they want to do this on a far…
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Clyde MacDonald has been warning Maine about the potential for wind turbine caused forest fires for years. Please see the links below. Now that the UMPI turbine had an apparently serious fire, the state should now be compelled to ensure fire safety with regard to these ticking time bombs in the Maine Woods.
It looks as though there were no trees near the turbine. What if there were and what if we were in a drought and what if there were strong winds…
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It will be interesting to learn precisely how the fire was brought under control as stated in the article given the nacelle is pretty high off the ground. Given UMPI's track record of obscuring the facts about this turbine, one might be wise to be skeptical of this claim. It looks as though there were no trees near the turbine. What if there were and what if we were in a drought and what if there were strong winds blowing? Clyde MacDonald has been warning Maine about the potential for…
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Added by Eric A. Tuttle on April 2, 2018 at 10:30am — 9 Comments
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
MIT: Relying on renewables alone significantly inflates the cost of overhauling energy
The Flawed Methodology Behind Studies Measuring the Cost of Climate Change
German Researchers Target Effects of Wind Turbine Infrasound on the Heart
Test results prove wind turbine noise modeling faulty
Six New Papers Reveal ‘Green’ Reality: Wind Turbines Destroy Habitats
How Important is…
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Here's the key sentence in this Press Herald article: "The immediate risk, advocates say, is $87 million in federal funding".
Of course the Press Herald headline, like every other piece it writes about wind, attempts to minimize the cost ramifications of this folly: "Effort to build offshore wind industry in Maine may hinge on 73 cents".
And as usual, the article makes us ask yet again, what is it about…
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Posted 8 hours ago FIRE UMPI windmill https://www.facebook.com/hallett.brooke?hc_ref=ARRu1VMoF3ct2I7WOTeBAgNLncm3Jf-DI9TF4_Ib0JbbtqTGi76ku-lxDT2TwcM5A90
Added by John F. Hussey on April 2, 2018 at 7:30am — 13 Comments
Green Mountain Power, a subsidiary of a Canadian company headquartered in Quebec, has about 77% of the Vermont electricity market. Some of its policies are to promote renewable energy, especially if significant federal and state grants, federal and state investment tax credits, accelerated depreciation, and low-interest loans are available to implement projects.
Such subsidies create the false impression these projects have short paybacks, whereas, in fact, they would not…
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Tyler Kachnovich used a drone to capture this video of Canton Mt. Wind project. He had posted it on Face Book. Even under winter snow, the destruction to the ridge is clear. The blades are spinning so slowly that it likely is producing little or no electricity.…
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http://innovationreform.org/ ;
Thorium based MSR/LFTRs... we built one at Oak Ridge as an experiment and ran it for over 20,000 without a major problem, just some minor repairs as you would expect. It worked! Now it's time to finish the last steps to make them commercially usable so we can put them to work. …
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The US Environmental Protection Agency, US-EPA, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, VT-DEC, and the Independent System Operator of New England, ISO-NE, calculate the CO2eq of Vermont’s electricity sector. They use different methods and obtain results that are significantly different from each other.
In this article I propose another method, which allocates the NE grid CO2eq to each state, based on the percent load each state imposes on the NE grid,…
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https://www.facebook.com/OklahomaForestry/posts/10160122617060632 ; Just what we don't need on the mountain tops and ridge lines of MAINE!
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March 30, 2018 Maine First Media …
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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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