Maine Lobster Festival - late start, but visitors are hip to our message

My bad, I didn't get there and set up the Pen Bay table until 12:30 noon. Stayed until about 4pm. I Davy Jones' Lockered my cellphone. My new cellphone# is now 593-2744 My new wall phone will be the old cell# 691-7485 It hasn't got voicemail yet.

The Lobster festival's marine tent is a great venue. People that go to it are interested in nature and the nature dependent tourism and ocean industries. They seem very receptive to jawing on the wind issues. Many are pleasure sailors, fishermen, people with conservation at heart, from the Maine Maritime Academy, and others interested in wind from around Maine and the country.

They were willing to get into a to and fro about wind, especially when we had topographic maps and other props for them to interact with . Point out places, viewsheds. Soundsheds.

If you can at all possibly come for part of Friday or Saturday, I think you'll find it very rewarding as outreach especially if you bring a topo, photographs etc
But you'll have to pay the normal gate fee. Thanks to my no-show yesterday. I think they I wasn't going to be there at all
The issue of "windturbines offshore are better than turbines on land" is one that people are pretty willing to adopt. the vinalhaven turbines sound CD is an absolute thumbs downer to new listeners. I think I will make a bunch of copies and give them out.

At same time they mostly also agreed with the Norwegian Brostrom's info we had about ocean windfarms' proven role in climate change. Better to be precautionary, there, too, since the windpower plan globally calls for the megawattage extracted from seawinds to grow exponentially in the coming decade. What impact will this have on ocean currents? A tiny diversion of the Gulf Stream off the US could end up a major diversion by the time the current reaches Europe. What if it hit Europe at Portugal or Spain, not Scandinavia?

People visiting the lobster festival marine tent liked to think about that, having a copy of a research paper with informative titles and abstracts was helpful Also about birds and the complex silence of nature as opposed to the windturbines.

I wasn't there wednesday when baldacci and the press was there. This vexed the Lobster Festival committee, who almost canceled the Pen BayWatch table out of ire, but today I made up with them.

Thing was, on Wednesday I was finalizing my due-that-day legal brief part of my ongoing Monhegan lawsuit. Iwasn't going to do anything else until that was finished printed, copied and date- and time-stamped at the courthouse. A rush job in many ways, and my standing claims are...unusual...to some. But now it's up to the Bureau of Parks and Lands and then Knox County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hjelm as to what happens next. Will Beauty triumph over the mechano-Beast? or vice versa?

I'll be there tomorrow from 9:30 to some time in the afternoon. The table will be moved for power plug access. Today the Pen Bay Watch table was in the center of the tent facing the FMC biopolymer table. Tomorrow it will be against the wall next to the live lobsters, scallops etc of the petting aquatic zoo at the back end of the tent.

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Comment by Ron Huber on August 6, 2010 at 4:09pm
More fun today with the CD at the festival, If I'm not there, dig out the cd player from under the table and run it, - Its a little CD player people are fascinated in a sort of disgusted way.
I took off for home from 1 to from 415 will be back ; call if you don't see me cellphone 593-2744
Comment by Denise Hall on August 6, 2010 at 12:25pm
Great news to hear! I will be out there tomorrow and will stop by the table. I am part of the Friends of Spruce Mountain group. See you tomorrow.

 

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