UMPI'S windmill "website" has old information except current weather
(www.umpi.edu/wind, or Google)
Except for the constantly updated information on current weather, everything I can find on that website is dated November 2008 or earlier.
I think it's past time for UMPI to start sharing with the public lts of information on their windmill's real output: from day to day and from hour to hour; weekly and monthly output kwh totals; comparisons with the same month last year; correlations of output with wind speed; down time and maintenance costs; etc. etc. etc. That will tell us something valuable and educational, and if real research is being done, it should be made public.
I was at the UMPI campus yesterday afternoon, January 10th. It was a bright day and the windmill was turning steadily, at about one revolution every 4 seconds, a pretty good clip. I didn't hear any windmill noise when standing in the Weiden parking lot at 90 degrees to the wind direction, looking at the blades edge on.
Harry Roper
Houlton
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Comment by Whetstone_Willy on January 11, 2010 at 5:29pm
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UMPI president Donald Zillman has been busy blogging in Copenhagen. http://blog.oup.com/2009/12/copenhagen-zillman/ Perhaps this heavy involvement with Global Warming explains why UMPI hasn't published any data collected at its turbine:
"In today’s Countdown to Copenhagen post, Donald N. Zillman looks back at predictions he and his fellow authors of Beyond the Carbon Economy: Energy Law in Transition made two years ago, and discusses what today’s position is in light of next week’s COP15 conference. Professor Zillman is President of the University of Maine at Presque Isle and Edward Godfrey Professor of Law, University of Maine at Fort Kent.
We noted that 80 percent of the world’s energy for all purposes came from the three familiar hydrocarbon fuels—coal, petroleum, and natural gas. Even the most radical alternative scenarios indicated that the three hydrocarbon fuels would still be major sources of world energy two decades from today. But, compelling reasons demanded that businesses, government leaders, and citizens around the world look beyond carbon, and begin NOW.
We identified five factors compelling that redirection. The first was climate change and other environmental harms from the use of the fossil fuels. When we wrote, the April 2007 Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had just been released. It made the clearest case yet that climate change was real, was happening now, and that it clearly implicated the fossil fuels.
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Comment by Long Islander on January 11, 2010 at 4:57pm
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From the Bangor Daily News on 11/18/09 at http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/129979.html
"The official film premiere of “Wind 101: The University of Maine at Presque Isle Builds a Wind Turbine,” will be held 5-6:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Braden Theater.
The half-hour-long, high-definition film, directed by local videographer and filmmaker Frank Grant and narrated by longtime theater professor Joseph Zubrick, follows the step-by-step process it took for UMPI to complete this major renewable energy project. The film shows the process from the first energy survey to the last windmill installation detail, together with the bumps encountered along the way.
“I think the film captures very nicely what we went through to make this happen,” said Zillman. “It was a great experience and I am looking forward to see it on the big screen.”
The wind is expected to blow harder and more consistently during the winter months, and officials are waiting to see how the turbine performs in its first year.
After the premiere, the film will be shown to students and staff at UMPI. After that, Zillman said the campus is interested in distributing a DVD to a wider audience."
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From the Bangor Daily News on 10/17/09:
"In May, the campus installed a 600-kilowatt wind turbine on campus".
"The turbine is expected to produce about 1 million kilowatt-hours of electricity a year and save the institution more than $100,000 annually in electricity charges. The windmill also is expected to save an estimated 572 tons of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere each year".
http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/125696.html
In other words, the turbine has been up and presumably running for about eight months as of today (1/11/10).
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From UMPI's website:
Sharing Our Experiences - http://www.umpi.edu/wind/project/experiences
University officials have promised to be very public about the project, sharing everything they have learned as part of this pioneering venture with others who may want to use this technology.
This website will serve as a major resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the University's alternative energy project. Information will be added as the University moves toward completion of its wind turbine.
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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
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