Great Facebook Comments From Nadia Nichols and Others in Today's Maine Sunday Telegram

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            Nadia Nichols ·  Top Commenter

Here's a brief quiz for all of our lawmaking Mainers and other wind energy proponents regarding Baldacci's Expedited Wind Law:
* Why did the Dutch stop using their windmills to grind their grain and pump water to reclaim their land from the sea–as soon as the steam engine was invented?
* Why are sailing vessels used almost entirely for recreation today, rather than for commercial purposes?
* Why aren’t gliders and dirigibles providing a substantial percentage of commercial air transport?
* What is the difference between energy and power? What would be the likely consequence if all our gas pumps were wind “powered?”
* What is the percentage of oil used in the production of electricity, nationally and in New England?
* Why must electricity supply be matched to demand at all times?
* What are the implications for wind technology given that any power generated is a function of the cube of the wind speed along a narrow range of wind velocities (that is, a wind turbine doesn’t begin to work until the wind speeds hits 9-mph and maxes out when the wind speeds hit around 34-mph)? Explain how a fluctuating source of energy could, by itself, “power” any city.
* Why has steady, controllable, precision power been the basis of modern life?
* If constructed on a forested mountain ridge, how many acres of woods must be cut to support a 100MW wind project, consisting of 40-2.5MW turbines, each 460-feet tall? Account for the requirement to accommodate the “free flow of the wind” for each turbine, staging areas for construction, access roads, substations, and transmission lines. Also account for the number of miles the wind project would extend downrange, assuming five turbines per mile. Finally, account for the amount of concrete necessary to provide a sturdy base for each turbine.
* Examine four Maine wind projects, asking how many permanent jobs were produced, the amount of local taxes and revenues received, and what the promises of such were beforehand?”
*Examine the same four wind projects and compare the energy actually produced to the promised rate of production, and calculate the actual cost of that energy, including the cost of transmiission, to the rate payers and tax payers of the State of Maine.
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  • Gary A. Campbell ·  Top Commenter
    Ms. Nichols has a list of excellent questions there. If I may, I's like to add a few more:

    * Why do wind developers quote how many "Maine households" their project can supply when they known darn well they are selling the power out of state?

    * Name one project in which the wind developer's forecast of a project's energy generated is UNDER-estimated.

    * Name one traditional fossil fuel-powered electricity plant that has been mothballed due to the entrance of wind energy into the grid.

    * Who makes the wind powered cars and trucks that will "get us of oil"?

    * Now that First Wind is proudly proclaiming that the cost of wind generated electricity is now competitive, why are they still lobbying to continue the Production Tax Credit? Can't they compete without taxpayers like us footing the bill for their projects?

    * When is Maine going to wake up? In return for small short-term economic gain, Maine is allowing these developers to permanently destroy a big share of its #1 industry: TOURISM. It's time to be concerned about the long-term health of the State. Maine is the caretaker of incredible natural beauty. We have to take that responsibility seriously and not sell it out for chump change!
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    • Winn Disaripoff · Portland, Maine
      "Michael Cuzzi is a former campaign aide to President Obama"

      Yes, and this useless, Enron-created fraud called industrial wind power is the equivalent of Obamacare for the Maine landscape and electricity bill.
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    • Dan McKay ·  Top Commenter
      Is the author applying the new math where 8 cents is less than 3 cents to advance his reasoning ? And does the author use the new math when he determines the investment by the wind industry is all money from the developers when actual numbers are nearly 2/3 of the investment money comes from the taxpayers ? Try to use the facts before you form an opinion.
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    • James J Lutz ·  Top Commenter · Johns Hopkins University
      Mr. Cuzzi; It is fitting that you were a campaign aide for Obama, Kerry and Tom Allen. You show your true colors. You also perpetrate quite a number of falsehoods in your current article. Wind is still three to four times as expensive to produce. They are only able to sell it back to us at the rates you espouse after we, the taxpayers and ratepayers, fund them with extraordinary subsidies. Those subsidies come directly from our pockets. The grid you speak of was upgraded to handle the wind turbines last year . . . . that cost us a 20% rate increase that was only necessary for wind. Unfortunately, it was not good enough to do the job and left us with an unstable grid. Those upgrades were $1.6 BILLION and raised our rates 20%. The proposed upgrades will be $18 - $26 BILLION. That would mean we would have at least a 200% increase in rates. We only have a little over a million people here in Maine. Do you have any idea what $18 to $26 billion will do to our economy??? If wind is such a good "investment", let the wind companies put up their own money to build them. That won't happen. Look at what StatOil did recently. The subsidies dried up and they packed their bags and went home. You are just another big spending liberal that enjoys spending everyone elses money. Eventually it runs out.
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Comment by Harrison Roper on November 4, 2013 at 10:51am

Wind doesn't work, very much. In the past 24 hours the highly visible UMPI windmill generated 1661 kWh;  this means that there was usable wind for less than two hours, a Capacity Factor .11. In 2012 Maine's "wind farms" generated less than 25% of their installed capacity.  The reason? -not much wind, especially in the summertime, when it is needed most. Without subsidies, industrial wind power would not exist.  - H. Roper Houlton/Danforth 

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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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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"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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