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Post by trbixler on Feb 2, 2012 13:34:09 GMT
Mr. Greens bird choppers at work. Thankfully no video. "Primary school forced to turn off wind turbine after bird deaths" "The rotary blades on the 30ft (9m) structure have struck at least 14 birds in the past six months. The turbine, at Southwell Community Primary School, Portland, was installed 18 months ago thanks to a grant from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. It provided six kilowatts of power an hour, but its performance was overshadowed by the number of birds killed - far higher than the one fatality per year predicted by the manufacturer. Headteacher Stuart McLeod was even forced to come into school early to clear up the bodies before his young pupils spotted them. School governers consulted seagull eyesight experts and investigated bringing in bird-scaring plastic owls to solve the problem, but to no avail. " www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/7870929/Primary-school-forced-to-turn-off-wind-turbine-after-bird-deaths.html
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Post by trbixler on Feb 17, 2012 13:10:32 GMT
Mr. Green follows Spain's lead. "Wind power plug pulled in Illinois" "The wind power industry is predicting massive layoffs and stalled or abandoned projects after a deal to renew a tax credit failed Thursday in Washington. The move is expected to have major ramifications in states such as Illinois, where 13,892 megawatts of planned wind projects — enough to power 3.3 million homes per year — are seeking to be connected to the electric grid. Many of those projects will be abandoned or significantly delayed without federal subsidies." wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/16/wind-power-plug-pulled-in-illinois/"Spanish Wind Power Companies Distressed by Subsidy Cuts" "Spain’s Industry Ministry has upset the country’s burgeoning wind power sector by announcing that it intends to slash subsidies by 40 percent." Read more: www.businessinsider.com/spanish-wind-power-companies-distressed-by-subsidy-cuts-2011-10#ixzz1mdzz5HW2
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Post by trbixler on Feb 17, 2012 14:01:20 GMT
"Golden eagles found dead at wind farm" "LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it is investigating the deaths of two federally protected golden eagles at a California wind farm. The two eagles were discovered Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported. A total of eight eagles have been found dead at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Pine Tree wind farm, located 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the Tehachapi Mountains, the newspaper said" www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/16/Golden-eagles-found-dead-at-wind-farm/UPI-63441329417887/#ixzz1mdbrQXXt
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Post by curiousgeorge on Feb 17, 2012 14:23:07 GMT
Speaking of wind, the tax break for wind projects was not renewed. Too bad about the loss of jobs, but this was never going to be a long term career. The wind power industry is predicting massive layoffs and stalled or abandoned projects after a deal to renew a tax credit failed Thursday in Washington.
The move is expected to have major ramifications in states such as Illinois, where 13,892 megawatts of planned wind projects — enough to power 3.3 million homes per year — are seeking to be connected to the electric grid. Many of those projects will be abandoned or significantly delayed without federal subsidies.
The state is home to more than 150 companies that support the wind industry. At least 67 of those make turbines or components for wind farms. Chicago is the U.S. headquarters to more than a dozen major wind companies that wanted to take advantage of powerful Midwestern winds.
wattsupwiththat.com/2012/02/16/wind-power-plug-pulled-in-illinois/
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Post by sigurdur on Feb 17, 2012 18:46:30 GMT
"Golden eagles found dead at wind farm" "LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it is investigating the deaths of two federally protected golden eagles at a California wind farm. The two eagles were discovered Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported. A total of eight eagles have been found dead at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's Pine Tree wind farm, located 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the Tehachapi Mountains, the newspaper said" www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/02/16/Golden-eagles-found-dead-at-wind-farm/UPI-63441329417887/#ixzz1mdbrQXXtThat windfarm should be shut down.......period.
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Post by trbixler on Feb 22, 2012 3:43:46 GMT
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Post by trbixler on Mar 5, 2012 13:29:36 GMT
Repair costs? What repair costs? Of course the NIMBY effect is you only have your taxes wasted not your brains Womped out. "Uh oh, North sea wind power a hopeless quest – it’s all about the foundations" "Putting the things offshore may avoid objections from the neighbours, but (Chancellor, beware!) it makes even less sense, because it costs you and me — the taxpayers — double. I have it on good authority from a marine engineer that keeping wind turbines upright in the gravel, tides and storms of the North Sea for 25 years is a near hopeless quest, so the repair bill is going to be horrific and the output disappointing. Already the grouting in the foundations of hundreds of turbines off Kent, Denmark and the Dogger Bank has failed, necessitating costly repairs." wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/05/uh-oh-north-sea-wind-power-a-hopeless-quest-its-all-about-the-foundations/
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Post by throttleup on Mar 5, 2012 17:55:34 GMT
Repair costs? What repair costs? Of course the NIMBY effect is you only have your taxes wasted not your brains Womped out. "Uh oh, North sea wind power a hopeless quest – it’s all about the foundations" "Putting the things offshore may avoid objections from the neighbours, but (Chancellor, beware!) it makes even less sense, because it costs you and me — the taxpayers — double. I have it on good authority from a marine engineer that keeping wind turbines upright in the gravel, tides and storms of the North Sea for 25 years is a near hopeless quest, so the repair bill is going to be horrific and the output disappointing. Already the grouting in the foundations of hundreds of turbines off Kent, Denmark and the Dogger Bank has failed, necessitating costly repairs." wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/05/uh-oh-north-sea-wind-power-a-hopeless-quest-its-all-about-the-foundations/ Yes, but they'll make wonderful and exciting underwater domiciles for all the sea life beneath the waves once they totally collapse. I just don't see a downside here. (sarc)"Yes, it's true all of our North Sea windmills have collapsed, Minister, but think of all the new homes for the fishes we have created."
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Post by trbixler on Mar 6, 2012 13:47:39 GMT
Womping for AGW. Who would have ever guessed that brain waves (2-10 Hz) would have been bothered by Womping? "Wind Turbine Syndrome affects more people than previously thought" "A survey was conducted on wind farm noise as part of a Master’s dissertation by Zhenhua Wang, a graduate student in Geography, Environment and Population at the University of Adelaide, Australia. The results show that 70% of respondents living up to 5km away report being negatively affected by wind turbine noise, with more than 50% of them “very or moderately negatively affected”. This is considerably higher than what was found in previous studies conducted in Europe. The survey was made in the vicinity of the Waterloo wind farm, South Australia, which is composed of 37 Vestas V90 3 MW turbines stretching over 18 km (1). These mega turbines are reported to be emitting more low frequency noise (LFN) than smaller models, and this causes more people to be affected, and over greater distances, by the usual symptoms of the Wind Turbine Syndrome (WTS): insomnia, headaches, nausea, stress, poor ability to concentrate, irritability, etc, leading to poorer health and a reduced immunity to illness." wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/06/wind-turbine-syndrome-affects-more-people-than-previously-thought/web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm
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Post by trbixler on Apr 30, 2012 14:04:43 GMT
Green bird choppers inhale tax dollars while.... "New Research Shows Wind Farms Cause Global Warming" "LONDON, April 29 (Reuters) - Large wind farms might have a warming effect on the local climate, research in the United States showed on Sunday, casting a shadow over the long-term sustainability of wind power. Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels contribute to global warming, which could lead to the melting of glaciers, sea level rise, ocean acidification, crop failure and other devastating effects, scientists say. In a move to cut such emissions, many nations are moving towards cleaner energy sources such as wind power. The world's wind farms last year had the capacity to produce 238 gigawatt of electricity at any one time. That was a 21 percent rise on 2010 and capacity is expected to reach nearly 500 gigawatt by the end of 2016 as more, and bigger, farms spring up, according to the Global Wind Energy Council. Researchers at the State University of New York at Albany analysed the satellite data of areas around large wind farms in Texas, where four of the world's largest farms are located, over the period 2003 to 2011. The results, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, showed a warming trend of up to 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade in areas over the farms, compared with nearby regions without the farms." nation.foxnews.com/global-warming/2012/04/30/new-research-shows-wind-farms-cause-global-warming
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Post by glennkoks on Apr 30, 2012 14:47:52 GMT
I think the taxpayer needs to get out of the subsidy business period. When wind and solar can compete with fossil fuels we will see wind and solar farms pop up everywhere. Cheap energy drives our economy and natural gas is plentiful and much cleaner than coal it is also a byproduct of drilling for oil.
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Post by glennkoks on Apr 30, 2012 15:10:44 GMT
Wellhead Energy Systems LLC, is currently making medium sized electrical generators that create electricity from wellhead gas in rural areas where natural gas infrastructure does not exist. As it stands now much of the gas in rural areas like the Bakken Shale in North Dakota is flared off because of a lack of infrastructure. So natural gas from far away travels thousands of miles to electrical plants and then the electricity is transmitted hundreds of miles where up to 10% of it is lost in transmission.
Instead of subsidizing wind farms I would rather see small rural size generators running on clean burning natural gas that would otherwise be flared off as a by-product of crude oil drilling.
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Post by trbixler on Aug 6, 2012 14:19:37 GMT
Green well not so much a CO2 sink but a tax dollars sink. "Wind Energy Is Extraordinarily Expensive And Inefficient" "London, 6 August: The Global Warming Policy Foundations has warned policy makers that wind energy is an extraordinarily expensive and inefficient way of reducing CO2 emissions. In fact, there is a significant likelihood that annual CO2 emissions could be greater under the Government’s current wind strategy than under an alternative Gas scenario." wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/06/wind-energy-is-extraordinarily-expensive-and-inefficient/
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Post by trbixler on Aug 24, 2012 12:54:48 GMT
"Something Rotten? Obama Says Danes Receive 20% of Their Power Via Wind; New Study Tells the Real Story" "WASHINGTON – President Obama has frequently cited Denmark as an example to be followed in the field of wind power generation, stating on several occasions that the Danes satisfy “20 percent of their electricity through wind power.” The findings of a new study released this week cast serious doubt on the accuracy of that statement. The report finds that in 2006 scarcely five percent of the nation’s electricity demand was met by wind. And over the past five years, the average is less than 10 percent — despite Denmark having ‘carpeted’ its land with the machines." "The upshot? The Danes retain the title of world’s most prolific wind producer, and President Obama cites their experience as a path to be followed. The cost? Danish ratepayers are forced to pay the highest utility rates in Europe. And the American people are led to believe that, though wind may only provide a little more than one percent of our electricity now, reaching a 20 percent platform – as the Danes have allegedly done – will come at no cost, with no jobs lost and no externalities to consider. Speaking of jobs, the report also pulls back the curtain on the wind power industry’s near-complete dependence on taxpayer subsidies to support the fairly modest workforce it presently maintains. Just as in Spain, where per-job taxpayer subsidies for so-called “green jobs” exceeds $1,000,000 per worker in some cases, wind-related jobs in Denmark on average are subsidized at a rate of 175 to 250 percent above the average pay per worker. All told, each new wind job created by the government costs Danish taxpayers between 600,000-900,000 krone a year, roughly equivalent to $90,000-$140,000 USD" www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2009/09/14/something-rotten-obama-says-danes-receive-20-of-their-power-via-wind-new-study-tells-the-real-story/
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Post by trbixler on Sept 21, 2012 3:54:21 GMT
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