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“Enron’s Legacy” – Jon Boone
We thank Jon Boone for granting permission to publish his recent Letter to the Editor: Editor, A decade after Enron’s meltdown, its legacy dominates the landscape, with government doling out massive subsides and mandates for dysfunctional technologies in the name … Continue reading
Jon Boone: Oxymoronic Windpower
Mr. Boone’s article originally appeared at MasterResource, the premier “free-market energy blog.” We thank Mr. Boone for granting permission to post his commentary and encourage readers to visit Mr. Boone’s Stop Ill Wind site for more of his expert analysis … Continue reading
Industrial wind … NOT HERE! NOT ANYWHERE!
__________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________ (Special thanks to the ever-excellent Windtoons) AT Note: We encourage you to visit the many links we’ve posted here, as well as the many excellent source links to informative sites we’ve provided on the left of the page … Continue reading
The Allegheny Highlands Alliance: “What We Expect From Commercial Electricity.” (video)
We thank the Allegheny Highlands Alliance for granting us permission to post their latest video, “What We Expect From Commercial Electricity.” The Allegheny Highlands Alliance (AHA) is a consortium of citizen/environment organizations with membership in five states along the Allegheny … Continue reading
“Write it down on a block of ice.” UPDATE
My dad liked that phrase … “Write it down on a block of ice!” He used to tell me that when I’d do a chore and tell him I was going to send him a bill. Sometimes, when I read … Continue reading
“The investment in CFLs would save more than 5 times as much electricity in 5 years than the wind turbine would produce in 20 years.”
Glenn Schleede provides his, as always, interesting take on energy issues. In this corner, it’s the CFL bulb and in the other corner, the wind turbine. Mr. Schleede calls this exercise a “back of the envelope” analysis with conclusions that … Continue reading
Putin: “Nuclear energy only alternative to oil, gas.” Rejects other alternative energy approaches as “claptrap.”
Seems our Russian friends have a renewable energy plan, and it’s interesting what it doesn’t emphasize. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated at the September 9 meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club that “nuclear energy is the only alternative … Continue reading
NIMBY defined: “with a golden rule twist: NIABY: Not in anybody’s backyard. This (industrial wind) is a flawed technology, with too high a quality-of-life price tag.”
A remarkable exchange on the topic of NIMBY and the impact of industrial Wind on communities. (thanks to Jon Boone for alerting us) July 15, 2010 To: Brent Harold, Cape Cod Times Dear Mr. Harold, A friend of mine was … Continue reading
Based on “cost, reliability, and cleanliness … an energy plan that is heavily reliant on wind-generated energy is not realistic.”
In his opinion piece at The Daily Caller titled, Beyond the spin: The truth about wind energy generation, Lance Brown suggests that based on “cost, reliability, and cleanliness … an energy plan that is heavily reliant on wind-generated energy is … Continue reading
Wind passes gas!
By now, you would think folks at the NY Times would know that the installed capacity (nameplate rating) of a power unit is not the same as the actual production output generated by a power unit. But time and again … Continue reading
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