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Tag Archives: Renewable Energy
Too hot to work?
Several Keyser, WV residents were surprised that during the recent spell of very … very hot days, the 23 massive wind turbines of the Pinnacle wind plant in Mineral County WV sat idle for much of the time. One would … Continue reading
Posted in Allegheny Mountains, Appalachian Mountains, industrial wind failure, industrial wind poor performance, Virginia Wind, West Virginia Wind
Tagged a cluttered sky, Allegheny Highlands Alliance, appalachian wind farms, Dominion Resources, Mineral County WV, Pinnacle Wind Farm, PJM gird, Renewable Energy, Rick Webb, VA Wind, Wind Power, wind to work
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Subsidy Games
Kansas Watchdog’s Travis Perry opens his commentary, Not so fast: Siemens still wants wind subsidies, with this gem: “Siemens Wind Power looks forward to a future where wind can compete without subsidies from the federal government … But not just … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, industrial wind v fossil fuel, Renewable energy debate
Tagged energy subsidies, fossil fuel, fossil fuel investment, Kansas Watchdog, Nixon Nuclear, Post Crescent, Renewable Energy, Siemens, Siemens Wind Power, taxpayer subsidy, Thorium Molten-Salt Reactor, wind farms, wind subsidy, wind turbine
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Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for August 6, 2012
Items of Interest: 1-“Wind Energy Is Extraordinarily Expensive And Inefficient” – Watts Up With That? 2-“As dawn came and the 1.4 million customers in Xcel Energy’s service district began turning on the lights, toasters and other appliances, the utility’s coal … Continue reading
Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for July 30, 2012
Items of interest: 1-Disgrace of the day – After receiving $78,334,713.00 this month from the US Taxpayers (1603 Grant), a Vancouver (Canada) -based wind and solar energy company is up for sale A year ago I wrote: I’m curious … is “Yabucoa” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1603 grant, German renewables, Renewable Energy, US Taxpayer, Western Wind Energy, Wind energy, wind subsidies
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Growth is a critical component of the energy crisis.
We must deal with ‘growth,’ or energy crisis will never end August 8, 2010 To the Editor: Cumberland Times-News — Proponents of wind are sold on the idea that wind power and other “renewables” will eventually power our economic engine … 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
Glenn Schleede: Highly Misleading ACORE Report on Potential for Wind Energy
From Glenn Schleede, May 6, 2010: A friend recently asked for my comments on the May 2009, “ACORE 20 GW Plan for Kansas,”[i] report, which claims that Kansas could get 20,000 megawatts (MW) of electric generating capacity from “renewable” energy … Continue reading
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Tagged ACORE, Glenn Schleede, Kansas energy, Renewable Energy, Wind energy
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Will industrial wind replace fossil fuel? Just do the math!
(courtesy of windtoons) Sometimes it’s worth a trip to the recent past to put industrial wind, as a viable energy source replacing fossil fuels, in perspective. The following article was published at the Wall Street Journal online on March 4, … Continue reading
Posted in Wind v Coal
Tagged industrial wind not viable, Renewable Energy, wind and solar energy, Wind v Coal
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A Conversation with Jon Boone – Industrial Wind and the Environment
We again welcome to our forum Jon Boone, an environmentalist with much knowledge about the wind industry. A few weeks ago, he spoke about wind technology as a problematic supplier of energy in A Conversation with Jon Boone – Toward … Continue reading
