UMPI TURBINE website declares "It's working!"

After many months the UMPI website is declaring:

             "Repairs are complete and the wind turbine is once again

              spinning.  In addition the data gathering system for the 

              turbine has been restored and the live wind data is currently 

              being  displayed."

     Previous to this latest repair, the site had reported power occasionally, apparently totaling 400,221 kWh "since mid-November 2011"   No update on the power figure was offered until September 19, 2012, when net power was reported at 25,122 kWh with no starting date shown and no explanation of the "dropped" previous figure. 

   Presently the site reports 31,059 kWh produced since....when? 

   The bar chart has been changed and it shows production for September only, (what year?), and no explanation of what the numbers on the left stand for.  The bar for September seems to indicate about  4700 - somethings. 

   In contrast, the cute little windmill/fluffy cloud picture churns away nicely, 25/7.  I am afraid this illustrates the image role of this machine on the campus- but I would like to be proven wrong.   Harry Roper   Houlton/Danforth 

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Comment by Harrison Roper on September 27, 2012 at 9:23pm

EXCUSE ME - THAT (ABOVE) should be 24/7 - H. ROPER

 

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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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