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The BBC reports that one turbine is down so far and the bulk of the storm hasn't hit yet.

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The Japanese are building Floating Wind Farms to put in deeper waters....

"What sets the project apart from other offshore wind farms around the world, consortium officials say, is that its turbines, and even the substation and electrical transformer equipment, float on giant platforms anchored to the seabed. That technology greatly expands potential locations for offshore wind farms, which have been fixed into the seabed, limiting their location to shallow…

We all knew windpower wasn't economical... and now



Harvard can prove it...





Plus, Denmark and U.K. are pretty much the…

A French couple has won a judgement that requires wind company to remove 10 turbines. Other judgements for removal have been won before, but so far have only resulted in settlements. No turbines have yet been demolished due to lawsuits in France, yet. 

October 2, 2013 - Read more at The Connexion, France's English Language Newspaper.

The famous hockey stick is now a flat line...

A new report due to be put out by the IPCC (part of the UN), and the same agency whose previous reports have ramped up the…

The Czech Republic’s government has voted to end support for renewable power generation in a bid to reduce rising consumer electricity bills.

The law proposes to stop subsidies for new projects and goes in to effect from 2014. Read the rest at Bloomberg...

Meanwhile, check out this neat graphic from Germany...…

True cost of Britain's wind farm industry revealed ... 

Every job in Britain’s wind farm industry is effectively subsidised to the extent of £100,000 per year...

UK Telegraph 15 Jun 2013

A new analysis of government and industry figures shows that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form of a…

Prince Harry doesn't like wind farms any more than his father Prince Charles (of U.K.) does... ... read the rest here.

The famous global warming graph... the notorious Hockey Stick... well, um...

Take a look at the new temperature graph

"Yet it was on that modest rise in the 1980s and 1990s that the whole of the greatest and most expensive scare in history was launched on its way, with all the terrifying political and…

"Two wind turbines towering above the Cape Cod community of Falmouth, Mass., were intended to produce green energy and savings -- but they've created angst and division, and may now be removed at a high cost as neighbors complain of noise and illness... 'It gets to be jet-engine loud,'  ... "…

January 9, 2013 - Pam McDowell,   Staff Writer -  Thousand Island Sun



1000 Islands - Iberdrola Renewables has confirmed that the meteorological test towers have been disabled and the company will no longer pursue developing the Stone Church industrial wind farm in Hammond, a project the company has been courting for the past several years. ... Read…

Lorraine Devon Wilke at Addicting Info has written a jewel of an op-ed about wind turbines...

It's long but worth reading every word... and concludes... "Before we cover every mile of our natural land with giant, whirring, metal machines paid for by our taxes, let’s be sure we know what we’re really getting.  Subsidies, the environment, the…

Developers of Wind Farms Run a Race Against the Calendar

December 27, 2012 - New York Times



WASHINGTON — Forget about parties, resolutions or watching the ball drop. To Iberdrola Renewables, New Year’s Eve will mean checking on last-minute details like the data connections between 169 new wind turbines in New Hampshire, Massachusetts and California and its control center in Portland, Ore.



All over the country, developers are in a sprint to…

 As the battle for the PTC heats up again, so does the blogosphere

• PTC no longer needed to drive wind development...  AEA - 31 October  2012 - Mature Wind Industry Can Compete On Its Own; Taxpayer-funded Welfare-For-Wind Must End  "The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that a one-year extension would cost…

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Telegraph, UK:

"And here’s the final rub. Once allowance is made for the inefficient use of back-up generating capacity, wind power turns out to be an expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions when compared with the option of investing in efficient and flexible gas combined-cycle plants or indeed…

 September 20, 2012

(Reuters) - The Netherlands has been famous for its windmills for centuries but now one of its most populous provinces has said it wants to ban their modern-day incarnations - wind turbines - on the grounds that they are ugly and noisy.  Read more...

PS... this is the province which includes Amsterdam, the…

The entire island of Lanai, Hawaii is owned by a single person and the U.S. Government. When local "resorts struggled with the recent economic downturn and the challenge of bringing tourists to a remote island with single-propeller air service, the island’s owner proposed building a field of 45-story turbine windmills, across bluffs and beaches covering over a quarter of the island, to produce energy to sell to Oahu. The plan polarized residents, dividing those who saw the turbines as the…

Exelon pushes to scrap wind subsidy ~  August 3, 2012

Company that showcases its green footprint outrages power advocates seeking tax extension

    With nearly half of its profits coming from its nuclear fleet and low-cost wind power cutting into its margins, Exelon is in Washington leading a fight to kill a tax credit the wind industry says is crucial to its survival.



Exelon Corp.has been a…