Allegheny Treasures

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 – this and this … oh … and this.

2-If you haven’t visited Dr. Nina Pierpont’s informative web site, you really need to do so!

Wind Turbine Syndrome

3-“by buying in … you once again are supporting and add false credibility to, a significant environmental destruction”

To CVPS (Central Vermont Public Service): Steer clear of wind – Rutland Herald

4-Industrial wind solution logic: If we make you really sick, we buy your home and you get out.

Wind turbine rule can be revised, panel says; Change would address possible health effects – National Wind Watch

5-Solution to the industrial wind problem – elections!

Neebing candidates oppose wind farm plans – Wind Concerns Ontario

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 – Karen Bessey Pease at the Bangor Daily News

3-Wind backer calls radar controversy “political.”  Wait, I thought he meant when the pro-wind Oregon Senator held the White House and DOD hostage.

Wind backer charges politics in radar debate – Your Abilene On-line

4-Noise, few jobs, environmental destruction, feeble power generation and paid for by the taxpayers … C’mon, Oregon!  What’s not to like?

Storm over wind energy brews in Union County – The Democrat Herald

5-“The Department of Energy projects that wind power production capacity will more than double by 2014 fueled by federal tax subsidies, economic recovery stimulus spending, and state renewable energy mandates.”  Translated, that would be “your money” and “your money” and regulations demanding “your money.“

Wind Turbines Are Beautiful … but a tad expensive. – Reason

6-oh! … and then there’s this from that pesky Robert Bryce:

Wind Energy’s Real Problems: (Hint: It Has Nothing to Do With The Wall Street Journal) – Energy Tribune

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 for the headline which, if it were true, industrial wind might actually work.  Sad to say, the folks signing land leases don’t seem to know that fact.

Wind farm proposal in western Sangamon picks up steam – The State Journal-Register

3-“Let’s hope the Scottish Government takes notice before it is too late” – STRUAN STEVENSON, Conservative Euro MP for Scotland  (Uh, by your title Sir, it would seem your wish has already been granted.)

Letter: Danish sound the retreat over wind farms – The Scotsman

4-Bet you didn’t see this one coming … Japan threatening to sue Canada over requirements that favor companies using made-in-Ontario equipment over those using foreign-made equipment, violating Canada’s international trade obligations.

Japan takes aim at Ontario’s green energy plan – CTV-Toronto

5-Seems Estonia has it figured out … maybe they can alert US politicians.

Subsidies Spoiling Renewable Energy Producers, Says Competition Authority – Estonia Public Broadcasting

6-Oh, I don’t know!  Stop is an excellent blade speed setting.

CEO: No easy resolution to wind turbine noise – Boston.com

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 serve as “blueprints”

Dreamlike ascent for wind power’s newest star: How did Sinovel skyrocket in just five years? – MarketWatch

3-“The whole world is nuking up while the USA is nuking down.  This nation will have a real energy crisis if the current trend continues.”

Wasting Clean, Cheap Power – American Thinker

4-And now that the “rascals” have arrived back in DC, this is well worth a second read:

Forcing Consumers to Buy Renewable Energy – Congress pretends to solve an energy crisis – Reason.com

5-Small wonder when “as much as 80 percent of some green programs, including $2.3 billion of manufacturing tax credits, went to foreign firms that employed workers primarily in countries including China, South Korea and Spain, rather than in the United States.“

‘Green’ jobs no longer golden in stimulus – Renewablesbiz (tip of the hat to Frank O’Hara of the AFA)

6-“It seems that the more “free” electricity we have, the higher its cost. My utility bill includes a charge that makes me pay for the expensive “green” toys producing expensive, unpredictable, and poor-quality power.”

Half-way to Doubling Renewable Energy – Energy Tribune (Thanks to Jon Boone)

7-Some serious logic offered by Bruce Everett, a homeowner in Chatham, (Massachusetts) who teaches energy economics at the Fletcher School at Tufts.

Wind turbines a poor investment – Free Republic

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 wind doesn’t work as a reliable, affordable, secure and environmentally friendly energy source.  And, I don’t know, is it enough that an energy source the country is to rely on for commerce and comfort is “neat?”

Wind Power Fun Facts – at Newbizine

3-LA Times desperate to face down another wind problem – all it will take is some more of your money.  (The “renewable leader” is, after all, broke!)

Wind farms and the radar problem – “‘Wind farms interfere with commercial and military radar systems. That’s stalling some projects, but it doesn’t have to.” – at the LA Times (Oh, did I mention that the fixes are “expensive!”)

4-Environmental activist says, “Clearly, a solar panel on the White House roof won’t solve climate change.”  We agree and add this qualifier, “the White House or anywhere else.”

Barack Obama: ‘no’ to solar panels on the White House roof – at Guardian.co.uk