Portland Press Herald Runs Major Shill Piece for Wind
The article seems to candy coat wind energy, never mentioning wind's huge problems including massive transmission costs, lack of grid scale electricity storage, lack of dispatchability, highly destructive environmental impacts, highly deleterious human impacts, harm to wildlife, future decommissioning nightmares, loss of property values, transmogrification of viewsheds, community divisiveness, diversion of attention from true energy research and growing worldwide opposition to wind industrialization.
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http://www.pressherald.com/2016/09/12/experts-say-wind-power-is-goi...
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Affiliations
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Ryan Wiser
- & Joachim Seel
Insight Decisions, LLC, 2200 Quitman Street, Denver, Colorado 80212, USA
- Karen Jenni
University of Massachusetts—Amherst, 160 Governors Drive, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
- Erin Baker
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 15013 Denver West Parkway, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA
- Maureen Hand
- , Eric Lantz
- & Aaron Smith
Contributions
All authors contributed to the formulation of the research, construction of the survey, and to editing and discussing the paper. R.W. led the overall effort, and wrote the paper. K.J. and J.S. helped lead the implementation and execution of the online survey, as well as the subsequent analysis of the results. E.B. provided insight into expert elicitation design, while M.H., E.L. and A.S. contributed wind expertise.
Competing interests
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 13, 2016 at 1:06pm
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Strange, how the smaller turbines produce more consistently in lower wind speeds and though at a lower quantity, they are online to the grid more often. The larger these things get, the higher wind speed required. Soon they will reach a height where near hurricane force winds will be needed to get them started. Bigger is not always better as more mass requires more energy of which most goes into wasted energy to maintain the momentum needed to keep the generation at a useful productive level !
Watching the RNC the shorter turbine (100 ft ?) was turning constantly from the winds generated from Lake Erie both onshore and offshore winds. While traveling by the two visible turbines from the City I witnessed this to be a fact, though the more distant 500 foot turbine never moved. (maybe a survere storm turbine ?) Smaller is obviously generating more consistently. Local Small wind generation with little transmission loss makes more sense.
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Comment by Long Islander on September 13, 2016 at 11:43am
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Is there wind corruption in Maine?
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Comment by Barbara Durkin on September 13, 2016 at 11:04am
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P.S.
Is this Free Energy? Or a House of Cards?
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UPC First Wind formed DeepWater Wind and their execs formed the regulations that apply to on and offshore wind. These companies renewables spawned by the conflicted only exist because of public subsidies.
MA Energy Sec under Patrick admin left office to join First Wind as Director. Ian served as grantor and grantee, Director of renewables companies while he was acting Secretary of Energy. Deval then governor appointed First Wind CEO Gaynor as Advisor on green regulations to Sec. Ian Bowles. Their rules require us to buy what they sell at premium cost. Their rules require us to invest in their favored green schemes.
Ian's successor left as CEO of MassCEC to join SunEdison. Ian is founding Chairman of the Mass Clean Energy Center MassCEC that surcharges ratepayers to fund their favored green ventures. While renewables' CEOs and executives continue to walk away with millions and investors, like the public, lose all as these green bubble companies fail and continue to put us on the hook.
Revolving Doors benefit crony-capitalists enjoying public subsidies for never realized public benefits. When revolving doors exist, public merit is not the driver in decision making or policy creation. Greed is the driver.
SunEdison bought First Wind that formed DeepWater Wind for $2.4 bn. in 2015. SunEdison symbol (SUNE) stock value plummeted 71.4% during three months after the transaction. Put into perspective, SunEdison's purchase of First Wind made SunEdison "world's largest" renewable energy developer.
SunEdison has recently filed for bankruptcy protection from "us" w/over $10 billion in debt, a much bigger failure than Solyndra.
SunEdison's complex financial structures created TerraForm Power with instantly created $3.72 bn. debt. TerraForm is a "Sell" as they may follow SunEdison's $10 bn. bankruptcy with their $3.2 billion bankruptcy.
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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