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…

Anthony Brino • April 2, 2018…

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…

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…

Posted 8 hours ago FIRE UMPI windmill https://www.facebook.com/hallett.brooke?hc_ref=ARRu1VMoF3ct2I7WOTeBAgNLncm3Jf-DI9TF4_Ib0JbbtqTGi76ku-lxDT2TwcM5A90

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…

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.…

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.  …

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,…

https://www.facebook.com/OklahomaForestry/posts/10160122617060632   ; Just what we don't need on the mountain tops and ridge lines of MAINE!

Lawmaker Flips Vote, Denies Mainers Public Hearing, Flees Chamber

March 30, 2018 Maine First Media …

The following groups have petitioned the PUC to intervene in the NECEC  case. I wonder how many have wind pushing them .

CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION 

NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL OF MAINE 

LD 1810, a bill to extract all of Western Maine from the expedited wind permitting area will go for vote in the House of Representatives next week. The democrats will vote against it, even some who represent Western Maine.