Wind, Nursery Crop for Nuclear
I see Wind as a nursery crop for the next Nuclear renaissance.
DOE recently made public its plans for small nuclear reactors to help pump water for storage at Wind turbine sites, to allow more Wind in the mix.
The science on human contamination from radioactive materials makes it now extremely difficult for large radioactive plants to be built on the old sites of overdue-to-be-decommissioned plants, especially when these are sited in heavily populated areas.. The new activist, energy and governmental consensus is moving toward smaller nuclear reactors and in remote areas.
Wind developers in remote low population areas, having built transmission lines, substations, and roads where none were before, tricked or bribed towns into accepting unwanted and unneeded extractive technologies, and who now hold towns dependent on contractual flows of cash to keep their governments afloat, have in effect primed these towns for takeover by the next well-funded project.
Something will be offered to replace the cash-flow to Wind sited towns when the Wind contracts expire, about half-way through the expected life-expectancy of the turbines. Be prepared that something far worse is in the offering when a town accepts Wind's ten year bribe of cash to fill the hole in their budget.
I was amused to hear the Fort Kent budget shortfall was exactly what they were expecting if a wind company decided to site there. I am sure it did not go unnoticed by those hurting from taxes during a recession (depression?), and may explain Fort Kent's reluctance to set protective standards for Wind siting and operations. In fact it might explain why Maine will not set real protective standards either.
Did anyone notice in the Wind-Part1 aired this past weekend the commentator's inability to mouth the word nuclear when speaking of federal subsidies to energy sources? It was visible on her graph! Also, right after the shop owner spoke of her savings in electricity it cut to the wind turbines! Her savings came from more efficient coolers, not from Wind turbines, which might in effect wipe out her gains in the form of higher rates, reduced property value,and possibly increased health costs.
Externalities, or collateral damage, or just business as usual?
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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