Items of interest:

1-Maybe if they put up a couple more windmills …

• Denmark loses its competitive edge – From the Copenhagen Post

2-More bass ackwards, tail-wagging-dog industrial wind logic:

• BPA, Calpine cut deal to use cogen plant to back up wind farms – Platts.com

3-Maine Public Utility Commission wants floating wind turbines “at least ten miles from the mainland and inhabited islands, in water at least 300 feet deep.”  We concur with the specifications … how about maybe the Bermuda Triangle?

• Maine commission calls for floating wind farm proposals – Wind Power Monthly

4-Independent Film Channel reviews “Windfall” – I bet the AWEA can’t wait ’till this hits the US theater near you!

• Toronto 2010: “Windfall,” Reviewed – “A small farming community in New York finds that wind energy may be nothing more than hot air in Laura Israel’s comprehensive doc.” – IFC

5-Jon Boone suggests the only cure is indeed shutdown–or not building them in the first place.

• Wind turbine noise, an independent assessment – The Herald Gazette