Stuck In The Recession With You, Wind

Wind developers love to engage in conversation about the mechanical aspects of turbines which steers people away from the truth about how utterly useless they are at grid scale . Even bad ideas can bring wealth to the game players, ( developers, a few landowners and money hungry town governments ) but this money has to come from somewhere and at some cost. The money comes from the taxpayers and the ratepayers ( you and I ) . the cost is loss of economic engine as wind forces aside the production from reliable electrical generators.                                                                                                                                             New, reliable generators won't be built without signs of economic growth to make them necessary. The weakness of wind makes it a growth inhibitor as more and more costs are added to fit them into the grid. They will come to haunt us once it is realized reliability is a most important factor to spur efficiency and create growth opportunities. In Carthage, In Maine, In America. Play now, pay later. When will this nonsense stop. ...

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Comment by Dan McKay on February 2, 2011 at 9:06am
I guess with all the time we have devoted to understand " Green " , Windmills and Energy, we can agree that the " image " permeating public opinion has very deep roots. It has penetrated all aspects of society and regretfully, for me, even the very principles of engineering. Where once, engineers were trusted to develop government policy through sound, scientific evaluation, it is now replaced with abusing the engineer's oath and reducing the profession to no more than chasing solutions to government mandates. As an old school engineer, you can count me out of this upside down foolishness.
Comment by Harrison Roper on February 1, 2011 at 5:18pm

Well said, both Long Islander and Dan.  I  wonder how long it will take to replace the"image" of windmills-as-green to be replaced  by "windmills-as-boondoggle".

Harry Roper

Comment by Long Islander on January 30, 2011 at 12:34pm
It may stop as soon as the opinions of lobbyists and lawyers are replaced with the expert science of engineers and economists. It will likely stop as soon as industrial wind power is put under the magnifying glass, all the hype is pushed aside and its mammoth cost compared to all the alternatives.

 

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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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