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A Conversation with Jon Boone – Toward a Better Understanding of Industrial Wind Technology
Jon Boone – Environmentalist, Artist, Author, Documentary Producer, and Formal Intervenor in Wind Installation Hearings Introduction: It’s been extremely difficult to bridge the gap that exists between those who know little about the issue and those who have a more … Continue reading
Will Pinnacle Knob be built with obsolete turbines? If completed within the next few years the answer may well be yes.
For the sake of argument, let’s say the two year old computer I’m using has capacity and functionality to support my growing business for, at least, the next three years. Unless it breaks, I would be a little nuts to … Continue reading
From the UK: Wind is “So variable in fact that the energy regulator is currently assuming that, in the future, windfarms are available for just 15pc of the time.”
Britain’s Telegraph.co.UK, published yesterday that “While wind farms run out of puff our bills will build up a head of steam.” Ofgem, Britain’s Office of the Gas and Electricity Markets, highlighted the “variability” of wind as a source of energy … Continue reading
If the wind is free, why do we have to pay you to take it?
In an earlier post, “Mountain Breezes – Green Energy’s New Coal?,” we spoke of the taking of the coal. For decades past, and likely many decades future, the important, yet much maligned resource has, and will continue to feed the energy … Continue reading
In moving against “greenhouse” gas emissions, EPA set to insure power plants utilize latest technology. Will they hold Wind Power plants to the same standards? Logic says they must!
The New York Times reports in its “E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” that the agency “would place the greatest burden on 400 power plants, new ones and those undergoing substantial renovation, by requiring them to prove that they … Continue reading
But Congress mandated that the wind would blow, Mother Nature. Now how about a little cooperation.
The Industrial Wind Action Group, pointed me to an interesting article about the unintended consequences of Wind Power and related “renewable energy mandates, government subsidies and a race to build wind turbines whether or not the grid can handle the … Continue reading
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