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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 16, 2010 (Updates throughout the day.)

Items of interest: 1-Guess who’s back with tin cup in hand? (thanks for the tip, AFA!) Urge Immediate Senate Action on a National Renewable Electricity Standard Well, before you make that call to your elected official consider this – this … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 15, 2010 (Updates throughout the day.)

Interesting items: 1-Industrial wind math … 22=6.6 Maine Voices: Spruce Mountain wind project falls far short of what people should expect – The Portland Press Herald 2-Misleading statements from a wind developer?  Impossible! Incredible! Unlikely! Hmmm! Maine wind proponents misinformed … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 14, 2010 (Updates throughout the day.)

Items of interest: 1-AWEA’s claim that industrial wind contributes significantly to carbon emission reduction meets a serious challenge. Jon Boone eviscerates “AWEA’s evidentiary offerings on behalf of wind’s carbon saving/fossil fuel slaying potential.” – Allegheny Treasures 2-Had to post this just … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 13, 2010 (Updates throughout the day.)

Items of interest: 1-First of the new Jon Boone series is up – A MUST READ! OVERBLOWN: Windpower on the Firing Line (Part 1) – MasterResource 2-Sinovel’s remarkable growth – visionary entrepreneur, favorable government policies and “foreign-made machines that would … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 12, 2010

Items of Interest: 1-“It is, after all, our backyard they’re playing in.” LOIS HENRY: LA is after Kern’s wind – at Bakersfield (California) Online 2-I suppose, had they been listed, fun facts #15 thru #27 would have mentioned why industrial … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 11, 2010

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 … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 10, 2010

Items of interest: 1-Kent Hawkins with a must read at MasterResource: Wind Is Not Power at All (Part I) Wind Is Not Power at All (Part II – Power Density) Wind is Not Power at All (Part III – Capacity … Continue reading

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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 9, 2010

Items of interest: 1-Pulling back the Wind Wizard’s curtain: ‘Windfall’ Documentary Explores Perils of Wind Power – “a new documentary that premieres Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, could take the sails out of wind power”  WSJ 2-Double whammy: … Continue reading

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