November 2008
5 posts
Clipper Wind turbines do not have a good record of...
Record Hill Wind LLP has selected Clipper Windpower LLC as the manufacturer of the turbines they hope to build in Roxbury. The company reported a loss of $179 million for FY ending December 2007, and a net loss of $211 million for the first 6 months of 2008. They spent $139 million fixing problems with deployed turbines during the past year.
Their major investor has taken control of the...
51 megawatts of wind generation = 4 megawatts of...
Drake Rice, director of member services for the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority is one of the few industry insiders who seems willing to speak the truth about wind power.
“We have 51 megawatts of wind generation, but we only get 4 megawatts of capacity for it because it’s not dependable,” Rice said. “And we had to put a gas turbine at our power facility at Ponca City to...
What is it about wind turbines?
What is it about wind turbines that makes people so eager to ruin their environment with them? Its remindful to me of the old Billy Crystal sketch where he would intentionally hurt himself and then say, ” I hate it when that happens”. Do we have some collective guilt that causes us to punish ourselves for our self destructive behavior?
We have been told and we believe that we are...
Global Warming - stop using it as an excuse to...
The 2009 New York conference expected to draw up to 1,000 scientists and experts who feel the global warming crisis has been “cancelled” by new scientific discoveries. The 2009 International Conference on Climate Change will serve as a platform for scientists and policy analysts from around the world who question the theory of man-made climate change. This year’s theme, “Global Warming Crisis:...
INDUSTRIAL WIND IN THE MOUNTAINS OF WESTERN MAINE...
With hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars being used to bailout banks, insurance companies, and home owners facing foreclosure, and with the economy facing a severe and painful recession, does it make sense to compound this problem with even more government spending on unproven technologies such as industrial wind farms on the pristine ridges of Maine’s western mountains?
King and...