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Cape Wind's president too nice of a guy?
Jim Gordon should be named the hero of the planet
When Cape Wind's Jim Gordon appeared this afternoon on National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday," I had an epiphany as to why Cape Wind isn't yet built.
Jim Gordon is simply too nice of a guy! Too gentle. Not angry or frustrated enough. At least, not yet. Me? I'd be steaming! Earth's in the balance, isn't it?
Here's Jim, a successful energy entrepreneur, grew up over a Boston grocery store, went to college, did well and "made good." And now he has bankrolled roughly $30 million into a visionary project to provide maybe 75 percent of electricity to the Cape and Islands, without directly emitting any "greenhouse gases" or atmospheric particulates or splitting atoms or generating high-level rad-wastes.
Pelagic fish would school around the Cape Wind towers, tourists would come from across the world for "windmill and whale watch" charters. It's all good!
What's the problem here? Why isn't Jim an official "Hero of the Planet ?" Why are the majority of Cape Wind supporters not rallying "in defense of Mother Earth?" This isn't a "global future" fight! It more resembles a "garden party."
Again. Simple! Jim refuses to Kennedy kowtow, snort Koch or to dance the hootchy-kootchy with selfish, self-styled "aristocrats" living along the south shore of a sand spit, albeit a lovely one, sticking out into the North Atlantic.
And confused political apparatchiks, even true environmental activist types, are thrown by their darling Senator Ted's iconoclastic, selfish harrumphing as he lays his considerable political bulk across our path toward Green energy. It reminds one of 1980, when Ted hung in the Democratic primary campaign to disable the despised Jimmy Carter long enough to help Reagan win the prize!
Jim Gordon had the temerity to site his project and its wee small profile (when viewed from shore, without binoculars) a bit too close to the "sacred sailing grounds" and Gatsbyesque shorelines of some few well-heeled industrialists, powerful pols and self-righteous choir of Cape Cod's self-anointed, myopic, arrogant "elite." We must stop him, we can almost here them whispering. He is not "one of us." How dare he?
"Energy production? Heah? Nevah!!!" Why, you'd think Mr. Gordon wanted to resuscitate the slave trade that built New England's earlier industrial base, or perhaps even bring back the whaling ships, again to go after that "other oil" which once lit the lamps by which America's most vaunted literati studied.
Even the Mayflower would like it
And these people lay a claim to having some ancestry among the Mayflower crowd? It was a tiny ship, not a country club or dinner cruise, folks. Whatever their religious fervor and fevers, the Pilgrims did the unthinkable: crossed an ocean and established a COUNTRY! Unimaginable to most. Yet they DID it!
Where is respect for the spirit of discovery, let alone selfless sacrifice of some perceived "exclusivity" to show the rest of our nation, indeed the world, that Americans do retain some of their sense of adventure, of invention, indeed of a "pilgrim's progress" as we are attempting to demonstrate "The Way Forward?"
Instead, we see rampant selfishness, backward thinking, grossly hypocritical shenanigans aimed at stifling creative investment and rational development!
Jim's not a member of "The Club." He didn't go to Hahvahd; he didn't sail in the America's Cup; he doesn't genuflect to the Kennedy Klan and their lackeys; yet he cares about our Mother Earth enough to put his money where his heart is!
By what "lofty standards" do the few elite Cape NIMBYs measure themselves?
So now, let's ask ourselves: what have Jim's opponents done for ol' Mom Gaia? Why are they mustering every desperate stretch of a reason for blocking Cape Wind, in the process calling in favors and obedience from kowtowing clusters of Cape Cod obstructionists, obedient unions and uninformed political cadres?
Spending millions to stop renewable energy
They're spending millions to deny sound engineering and truly progressive policies? Derailing the largest offshore windfarm in the US? Hampering real progress toward less environmentally damaging, American-owned energy?
All over this weekend's news is a report from the global climate community, blaming humanity for exascerbating Mother Earth's atmospheric hot flashes, sounding alarms about sea-level rise and potentially catastrophic planetary changes, calling on Spaceship Earth to go to "battle stations" lest we drown our coastlines and make eventual refugees of billions of coastal dwellers who live along the global ocean's shore. You'd have to be drunk or dead not to hear the din of warnings, blame and even the occasional suggestion for new solutions.
Yet, Teddy is wont to protect sailing grounds where "Jack used to sail," despite the late president's being a solid enough sailor to avoid the shoals where Jim Gordon wants to plant his wind harvesters. What kind of madness is all this?
And it was Jack Kennedy who told us we were going to the Moon, not because it was easy but "because it is hard." Who is showing the "profile in courage" in defense of Mother Earth? Who is "thinking globally, acting locally?" Who will our children's children's children consider a planetary hero in their history?
Well, in the planetary context, it's Jim Gordon. Certainly not Teddy Kennedy, or Bobby the K, and certainly not Hugo Chavez's pal Joey. If it weren't for the pathetic consequences, our fellow Earthlings would be laughing out loud at anti-Cape Windbags. If the obstructionists "win," what will be the real costs?
The Kool-Aide of eco-hypocrisy cup
Local "environmentalists" attempting to block Cape Wind have drunk deeply from the Kool-Aide of eco-hypocrisy in rallying to Big Teddy's "sacred sailing ground" preservation campaign, all but abandoning directions drawn from the preponderance of national and global environmental scientific assessments.
This at a time when the planetary political and scientific communities are doing their Paul Revere bit, warning us that: "It's probably too late already to make much of a difference for several centuries anyway." Civilization will be changed unavoidably in ways we are as yet unable to predict with accuracy.
But we owe it to future generations to make a try. Defeat Jim and Cape Wind, then offshore wind power may be stifled for an entire generation, as coastal NIMBY's everywhere object to "losing their view." We'll end up doing zilch!
So, here comes that upstart, Jim Gordon, a too-nice guy wanting to do good by doing right, make some honest money and let some of the gas out of America's resource-hogging power grid. And faux-Greenies are painting him like he's a Don Quixote, a pirate or worse yet, a "profit-seeking industrialist" out to rape a pristine ecosystem? Hey! Boston is built on filled-in coastal salt-marsh, yes?
It is inherent when we strive to grow, to make changes, that we balance risks creatively, consider trade-offs and confront challeges bravely and honestly!
"Talk of the Nation" host Ira Flatow handled Jim's presence and kindly manner most respectfully, and while Flatow touched on the opposition by Kennedy, et al., Jim Gordon didn't take the bait and trash-talk Teddy. An opportunity I'd not have missed, having taken part in not a few environmental battles myself.
Instead, Jim calmly and carefully reviewed the benefits, the process and the prospects, where if I'd been he, I'd have hammered Big Ted, "Bobby the K" and their political minions, who wallow like salmon against overwhelming support of Jim's efforts by the Cape and Island dwellers who don't owe a blind Orwellian allegiance to the threadbare, hyper-inflated Kennedy antique mystique and its manufactured faux "environmental opposition," transparently mostly theater.
Kennedy is camouflage for the tightly-knit, usually disparate social elite who've unified to protect their privileged ocean view and sacred shoals, content to let someone else generate electricity they can afford to buy regardless of its cost.
Energy independence will end the threat of terror
OK, so this is a bit of a rant. But the planet is at stake, isn't it, or at least "at risk," according to scientific consensus? Why knock back an entrepreneur willing to take big risks, endure the federal and state licensing processes? Why blow off a courageous guy who wants to generate your electric power using ocean winds?
How seriously do you too-few self-styled elite NIMBYs, spending ridiculous amounts to gin up tortured rationales while you distort the political process, expect to be taken across America once the body politic at large, yes even its loyal Democrat majority, awakens to perverse Alice-In-Wonderland political and environmental tactics employed to keep Jim Gordon "down" and his Cape Wind exiled to Never-Neverland? Don't any of you ever look in the mirror?
Y'all have got to get a grip! The whole world is watching, and how America confronts global warming will set the planetary tone that will echo for ages!
The new Congressional majority loudly has committed to taking the global warming threat seriously, even "rabidly" according to their climatological critics. Yet John Warner, Ted Stevens and Teddy Kennedy, employing their raw politics, abusing their power actually, are selfishly stuffing Cape Wind up the noses of Cape and Island dwellers and of countless generations of unborn Earthlings, using every trick in their bags to do it, counterfeiting the future!
West Virginia's Bob Byrd, Nick Rahall (House Resources chair) and others from coal-producing states are quietly cheering them on, as are some Texans, who have sense enough to let a big windfarm into their own state while they sell oil and gas to "backward folks." And the nuclear industry? Christmas every day!
Inquiring minds want to know: who in their right minds will invest treasure or time in offshore wind power along the Atlantic seaboard, or take seriously the American commitment to managing "inadvertant climate modification," as is the supposedly serious battle cry of a new Democratic majority? Who, indeed!
Did you see today's other wind story, about a report projecting how much of the US's electricity requirement could be generated, offshore, from New England to the Carolinas? Real scientists, again, searching for real solutions!
It's a lot! It's the future! But only if we get cracking and claim it for our kids!
Jim, you've got to stop being so nice. We've got a planet to save, yes?
Being a pioneer is a tough business. Take off the gloves! Speak truth about power to power. Let the rest of America know what you've been up against.
Embarrass 'em!
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Editor's Note; See the rest of Dick Farley's reporting here.
See the 4-1/2 star ward-winning Greenpeace video here.
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Jim Gordon recognized the hole in the donut, Nantucket Sound, (under consideration for national marine sanctuary status, and surrounded by state sanctuary waters), and made his move as a brilliant opportunist. He has not impressed EPA region one, Cape Wind “earned” their lowest rating.
EMS, and Jim Gordon want to build a diesel-burning power plant in Chelsea across the street from the city's elementary school complex that will emit soot and other pollutants. It is clearly the green of money that is motivating developers, investors, AWEA, and Jim.
I have no problem with Jim Gordon and his investors making a fortune. Where and how they propose to make their fortune is the problem.
National Air Traffic Controllers Union at Cape Approach: “could not think of a worse place to put these turbines.” There are 400,000 annual average flights in this airspace.
The Steamship Authority annually makes 22,000 trips transporting 3 million passengers and over 600,000 cars and trucks: “It is our opinion that the 130 wind turbines planned for Horseshoe Shoals and Nantucket Sound has a potential for creating a significant hazard to safe navigation for our vessels and other users of the waterways.”
Invite Jim Gordon for coffee, dinner, or for a backyard barbeque, but not to create a public safety hazard; take marine mammals by harassment; kill up to 6,600 birds per year; create a net loss in tourism spending of at least $57 million annually, and “...put fishermen at risk” (BHI study), (Mass Audubon staff scientists, MFP).
I'm stuggling to come up with one current problem that Cape Wind won't exacerbate.
Cape Wind president Jim Gordon said that “while no one project is enough, initiatives like Cape Wind that can reduce CO2 emissions by over a million tons per year can really help the Governors and Premiers attain their goal of significantly reducing local greenhouse gas emissions.”
Dick Farley writes that Jim:
"...has bankrolled roughly $30 million into a visionary project to provide maybe 75 percent of electricity to the Cape and Islands, without directly emitting any "greenhouse gases" or atmospheric particulates or splitting atoms or generating high-level rad-wastes.
Which would Cape Wind do, (according to project proponents), "reduce CO2 emissions," or "not directly emit greenhouse gasses?"
It appears that Mr. Farley is back peddling on the earlier promises made by Jim Gordon.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of your most frequent criticisms of Cape Wind is that the project would rake in millions of dollars through the federal production tax credit and state's renewable portfolio standard? Which is true -- once Cape Wind is up and running and generating lots and lots of electricity. All that state and federal largesse hinges on production, as in - production tax credit. See the connection?
Now this is where it gets tricky, at least for wind farm opponents. Electricity generated by Cape Wind -- lots of it you'll recall, hence all that taxpayer-funded dough -- is that much less electricity being generated by coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear powered plants. Still with me?
Instead of hoping that disparagement is enough to discredit, Barbara, please point out where anything in the two statements you cited is inaccurate.
The truth as told by the Elsam study, (Denmark's largest utility), is discrediting Cape Wind. Denmark's wind plants have Not reduced their carbon dioxide emission levels.
Jim Gordon states that Cape Wind would reduce carbon emissions by over a million tons per year, Elsam operators would be interested, I imagine, in how Jim Gordon will succeed where Denmark
has failed.
Dick Farley states that Cape Wind will not directly emit greenhouse gasses; but not, conspicuously, that Cape Wind would reduce carbon emissions. Jim and Dick don't seem to be on the same page.
Mr. Farley's words: "not directly" suggest to me that the backup energy source required by Cape Wind would "directly" produce greenhouse gasses.
The disparagement award goes to Mr. Farley, hands down:
"Instead, we see rampant selfishness, backward thinking, grossly hypocritical shenanigans aimed at stifling creative investment and rational development!"
I'd call that disparagement.
I haven't read the Elsam report yet, but when I do I suspect that what I'll learn is that while Denmark has not reduced its greenhouse gas emissions -- and I doubt a single nation in the world has -- what Denmark has done thanks to its ambitious use of renewables is reduced the rate of growth for emissions. You may think this is an insignificant difference, but it's not. Before commenting further, however, I'd like to read the report.
There’s no such thing as coincidence. Mass Audubon announced its preliminary conditional approval of Cape Wind at the same time the Young Steven’s amendment was being debated in Washington. The Department of Energy wants taxpayer dollars to satisfy their own budgetary needs. Denmark’s energy sector exportation represents $1.5 billion per year. GE is anxious to provide us with a placebo if the demand is there. Enter the Union of Concerned Scientists to instill fear. Fear and greed are best motivators when the goal is to part the American public from our money. This is more about tax sheltering generation than clean energy generation.
Thomas Donlon, Barrons, 5/16/05:
"It is shameful that GE, a highly profitable company, has decided to take advantage of faulty federal and state wind energy policies by producing turbines for "wind farms."
"In addition to environmental damage..., wind power has an economic flaw that any GE engineer ought to be able to imagine: Since no human power can turn the wind on and off when it's wanted for electricity, every bit of wind power capacity must be backed up by another generating source...Immelt, an engineer, understands this but he provided the executive's counter argument: The customers want it, so it's GE's job to produce it."
What do we really know about this guy, anyway?
He seems to always be hiding in the shadows.
Mr. Koch will no doubt be stealing away his thunder at some point.
Constellation Energy and FPL Group are combining in a $27 billion dollar merger. Consumer advocates express concerns about what this might do to pricing.
A September 22, 2004 report by Citizens for Tax Justice states that the FPL Group [the energy firm with over 2,000 Altamont wind towers] paid no federal income tax in 2002 or 2003 despite having profit of $2.2 billion during those years, (tax sheltering).
The $$$billions in profit reaped by FPL influence the process. The quality of air in Chelsea, or at the Cape and Islands is relevant to you, not them.
Wind energy interests are working hard to convince you that you need them, to live, to breathe, but they only want your money, and my money, too.
P.S. It's no coincidence that the Energy bill was tweaked, and that Cape Wind is a beneficiary of that tweaking, at the expense of the public.
Follow the money, Jack, business is business, without a soul.
An astute businessperson uses OPM, other people's money. Jim Gordon would disappoint me if he wasn't using OPM.
Perhaps the accurate way of addressing the topic is to say technically that, a non-polluting electrical source that feeds the New England grid will avoid the equivalent amount of electricity from other sources. Its simply the law of physics.... you can’t store electrical energy on the transmission grid.
By the bidding rules of ISO NE the most expensive generated electricity (from oil) will be bumped off the bid stack and not be dispatched. The amount of emissions (CO2, SO2, and NOx) reduced are calculated from the ISO NE marginal emission rate schedule.
Based on ISO data and according to the findings of the MA Energy Facility Siting Board in their 2004 decision under Governor Romney: “The Siting Board finds that in the near term, operation of the wind farm would reduce regional air emissions by approximately 4,480 tons of SO2, 1,323 tons of NOx, and 1,062,554 tons of CO2 annually” p. 168.
Let’s let authoritative sources determine the facts, not speculation.
Regards,
Chuck Kleekamp, P.E. Ret.
As for Denmark "treading water" on emissions, better that than drowning in them. Please tell me you understand the difference there, or at least refrain from going near large bodies of water with the intent of swimming.
Nice to see Crusader taking a break from the McCowen candlelight vigil. What a shock, an entrepreneur like Gordon actually going to "others" to help fund a project. Next thing you know they'll be charging him interest.
Please tell me, Jack, that you understand that it’s not about your air, it's about your money. And, that you recognize that the value of Nantucket Sound is now yard sale pricing as Cape Wind would "coincidentally?" benefit by this "no-bid" deal.
Consider offering your house for sale, but to only one person. Do you think that you would reap the highest and best price outside of a competitive marketplace?
Your wind interests demonstrate, time and time again, that this is not about your needs, or my needs. Wind interests are motivated by their own potential financial gain.
Business is business, Jack. As such, the public suffers the financial loss; and Cape Wind has no competition by their "no-bid" "sweetheart deal” business interests are met.
Big Energy’s actions speak louder than their words.
Is Jim Gordon's former claim to reduction of carbon emissions by one million tons per year now revised to "CO2 avoidance"?
The costs crept past the benefits of Cape Wind when Jim Gordon selected Nantucket Sound as we did not zone the waterway first. The environmental, socio-economic, and public safety negative impacts by Cape Wind continue to be tallied, pushing the "value" of Cape Wind further into the deficit column.
Does everyone have a copy of their new Cape Wind playbook?
Is Jim Gordon's former claim to reduction of carbon emissions by one million tons per year now revised to "CO2 avoidance"?
The costs crept past the benefits of Cape Wind when Jim Gordon selected Nantucket Sound as we did not zone the waterway first. The environmental, socio-economic, and public safety negative impacts by Cape Wind continue to be tallied, pushing the "value" of Cape Wind further into the deficit column. The public deficit appears as a credit to wind energy interests.
Enjoy the day.
I realize as do others that smart businessmen will look for investors, but my point was that my source tells me this guy Gordon is not really a "somebody" like Koch. He only uses the money of others because he really hasn't done anything significant. I think that was my initial point, but didn't quite explain myself properly.
In other words, if he is a successful businessman and can show something for it, fine, along with the concern for the people. If not than why should we believe this guy can produce something worthwhile---serving the best interests of the Cape residents, fishermen, wildlife and sea life?
There are many other "green" energy producing inventions about to emerge which will surpass wind. It seems the cost would exceed production in dollars and loss of natural resources.
I don't appreciate the crack about "McCowen's candle light vigil". When the truth comes out and he is set free, I expect you to buy me lunch.
There is little that the man or the marketing firm can do to convince me that:
A: The benefit of wind energy would exceed the cost of wind energy as proposed for Nantucket Sound.
B: He is in business to serve the interests of the Cape residents', fishermen, wildlife and sea life.
Jim Gordon does have chutzpah, but no experience building wind towers on land or water. I wish him the best of luck in his other endeavors.
It is a slightly edited version of the article (same title) Komanoff wrote for Orion Magazine in their Sept/Oct '06 issue. Komanoff's and Orion's web sites have the Orion piece plus comments and criticisms, to which Komanoff responded.
Some of the discussion centers on what Durkin semantically argues, apparently inaccurately, regarding how "wind" is a reducer of greenhouse gases & carbon.
Komanoff has some good info about Mass. and some "ironic" and unflattering info about the so-called "Alliance to Save Views of JFK's Sacred Sailing Grounds."
"Belief" is the cessation of learning, and blogs are often like CB radio of old, where everyone had access but few had much of value to say.
Facts rarely will impact "faith-based" politics and apologetics, but one must keep trying to communicate, educate and perhaps break the disinformation cycle.
Regarding your comment:
"Some of the discussion centers on what Durkin semantically argues, apparently inaccurately, regarding how "wind" is a reducer of greenhouse gases & carbon."
Cape Wind president Jim Gordon said that “while no one project is enough, initiatives like Cape Wind that can reduce CO2 emissions by over a million tons per year can really help the Governors and Premiers attain their goal of significantly reducing local greenhouse gas emissions.”
Do you have an extra copy of the article that Komanoff wrote for Orion Magazine to provide to Jim Gordon?
Facts rarely impact faith based initiatives, but the Alliance continues to educate and attempt to break the disinformation cycle. I also do my best to dispel the many myths being generated by Cape Wind. The MFP, representing over 3,000 local fishermen, issued a press release on August 23, 2006, calling on Cape Wind to "stop making false claims" about the Cape Wind project impact on fishing.
Your NIMBY refrain conveniently ignores public safety issues, marine life issues, and predicted avian mortalities in an endangered species habitat, etc.
[www.thescotsman.com]
“Danes Go Cold on Wind Farms”
”The nation that leads the world in wind development is going cool on the environmentally friendly source of power…”
“While many countries around the world are clamouring to buy Danish turbines, Denmark’s government is finding it difficult to convince its own population to accept an increase in the domestic use of the technology.”
“Describing turbines as “poorly located, noisy and unsightly”, a number of local authorities, backed by grass-roots campaigners, are rejecting plans for new wind farms.“
“...local opposition to a new wave of wind-power construction has reached fever pitch. Leading politicians say that is potentially catastrophic for the Danish energy sector.”
“Citing environment ministry figures, which confirm that offshore windmills cost nine times as much land-based ones, opponents have vehemently criticised the government for its willingness to ignore strict local planning guidelines."
Once upon a time, pre-Cape Wind, people who appreciated scenic beauty were not treated like Lepers, and selfish ones at that. I could not agree more with you. I cherish the present scenic value of Nantucket Sound that Cape Wind would destroy.
Jim Gordon as "Salesman of the Planet" is a more fitting title.
Neil: What I find to be tragic regarding your contribution, 'Denmark Goes Cold on Wind Farms' is that the Danes didn't know what they had until it was gone.
Thank you, Capri, Neil, for the insight and information.
Why don’t you tell Cape and Islands’ residents what you really think of them?
“selfish, self-styled aristocrats”
“confused political apparatchiks”
“few well-heeled industrialists”
“powerful pols and self-righteous choir of Cape Cod's self-anointed”
“myopic”
“arrogant elite”
“rampant selfishness”
“backward thinking”
“aimed at stifling creative investment and rational development”
“Hampering real progress”
“anti-Cape Windbags”
“obstructionists”
“have drunk deeply from the Kool-Aide of eco-hypocrisy”
“NIMBY's”
“faux-Greenies”
“faux "environmental opposition”
“usually disparate social elite”
“self-styled elite NIMBYs”
“spending ridiculous amounts to gin up tortured rationales”
“while you distort the political process”
Embarrass us? I think you’ve embarrassed yourself.
Jim Gordon is a very successful and wealthy businessman. Are you successful and wealthy?
Why do you continue to doubt the financial viability of wind power and of the Cape Wind project? Do you think Jim Gordon is stupid? Why are you second-guessing his decisions?
Why is being successful and wealthy a negative quality in a person, as all of you so often refer to it when talking about Jim Gordon?
Capri--let me throw out the name of another obscenely wealthy self-interested fatcat who has put many competitors out of business:
Oprah.
In fact, she is so wealthy she makes Jim look like a bum on skid row. I admire her and she deserves every penny she has earned.
Like all self-made bazillionaires, she is extremely "self-interested" as you put it. That's how she got rich enough to be such a generous philanthropist.
It is just so lame in the US of A to malign someone because of his/her wealth and success.
You three chicks may or may not be worshippers of St. Oprah, but let me tell you, she's nothing if not a capitalist like bid bad Jim.
Conspicuously missing in your address is “Farley” as his inability to defend this project on its merits is the basis for the class war he’s waging.
Am I successful and wealthy? I’ll consider that you’re inquiry pertains business acumen and money as success and wealth are pretty subjective words. At 23 I was the VP of a multi-national company. I’ve owned several successful businesses, and I’ve worked very hard for the love of work, not money. Money comes and goes, and I’m not impressed or intimidated by people who have it. Three of my close friends have their own jets, but they are my friends because they have character. And, their financial pictures make me look like a bum on skid row.
So, you’re wrong, Capemom. Jim Gordon’s net worth is as irrelevant to me as Oprah’s. And, I celebrate entrepreneurial spirit.
My niche is land use and property rights. My husband is 6th term appointed by the NAR for the Land Use Property Rights and Environment Committee. He’s certified as an instructor for land development, and we work together. The principles are the same regarding use, rights, on land and water.
Jim Gordon is a capitalist, and puts his pants on one leg at a time just like I do. I know how the game is played as most of my friends are developers. He found a loophole, and is poised to exploit bad/lacking policy. It doesn’t make him a bad guy, but it doesn’t make him a good guy either. It does highlight our negligence as we have not attended to the business of Mapping and Planning and zoning of the OCS., and that’s why I second guess Jim HIS decisions, they should be ours.
And, not that you've asked, but I believe that being a mother is the most important job in the world.
“Wind Energy Costly for Consumers”
Copenhagen Post, 1/29/07
“The plan to increase the nation’s green power could expand a black hole that already sucks nearly two billion DKK. out of consumers’ pockets..."
“In order to promote wind turbines, the Gov. has agreed to purchase the electricity… The guaranteed prices have had the desired effect: some 5300 wind turbines dot the Danish countryside…”
“The practice has its downside, however. The guaranteed prices results in an overproduction that cost the state an excess DKK 21.6 billion”
“Due to the uncertainty of wind, Energinet.dk has to keep a reserve of conventionally produced electricity in case the wind dies down. The extra cost is typically passed on to consumers in the form of higher electric bills.”
“Maintaining that safety net results in a near constant overproduction of energy, reducing wind power’s share of the total amount actually used to power Danish homes and factories to 8.3 percent."
"The unneeded electricity is exported, normally at a lower price than paid to turbine owners."
Bill Koch's economic model of Cape Wind projects a $440.00 annual increase could be anticipated by Cape and Islands' residents if this project is constructed.
Jon Boone on Cape Wind:
http://www.stopillwind.org/
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EIA Lowers its Forecast for the Contribution of “Wind Energy”
January 30, 2007 by Glenn R. Schleede, Round Hill (VA)
Summary:
“The latest annual energy forecast issued by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicates that, by the year 2030, wind energy would supply less than 1% of US electric generation and about 4/10 of 1% of total US energy consumption.
This forecast, which likely overstates the potential contribution of wind energy, helps show that officials of the wind industry and US Department of Energy are misleading the public, media and government officials with their claims that wind might supply 20% of US electricity.”
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http://www.windaction.org/
documents/7711
Jack:
The US Department of Energy can be added to the short list.
When offered their own blog site by a Cape Cod Today editor, the "gang" said their leaders (back on the Mother Ship?)said "No go," apparently preferring a guerilla blog hit squad to reasonable conversations "on topic." It's just a lot of "noise" to mask any "signals."
Their tactic is to insert lengthy off-topic anti-wind snippets out of context and lace their posts with vituperative irrelevance to drive away opinions, pro or con, legitimizing these discussions.
If you wish to post, simply ignore them and "write through." They are harmless visitors from another planet wishing to raise Earth's CO2 levels to habituate our world to their species. Let 'em all "come on down." Welcome to Earth!
What made you believe that my comment was in any way directed toward you? I was not specific. Do you have what Poe called "The Telltale Heart" about this?
Please share your personal credentials for assessing "good" journalism or otherwise? We who read your guerilla blog posts know only that you're a "nom de guerre" with time on her hands and a penchant for "trolling" CCT's blogs for Cape Wind comments, then dumping on 'em.
Are you acknowledging you're part of some political "menage a trois" for the opposition to offshore wind farms?
If so, it is self-evidently amateurish, amusing, among the most transparently contrived "disinfo" campaign most of us have EVER seen! Our national readership is laughing at such comic shenanigans.
I'd bet Jim Power and Chuck Vinick cringe every time they read stuff.
The Martians are looking for a leader in their fight against global warming.
You should send them your resume.
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Habibullo Abdussamatov, St. Petersburg Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory, Russia
This is the kind of comment and discussion that won't bore our readers to intellectual paralysis.
I liked it so much I'm going to put it up on this blog as my next installment, so we can have a real discussion about it, right away. It is a viewpoint needing exposure and exposition. I'll look forward to any comments "on point" and "in bounds."
Thanks again. I'm outta here; see you in the next life... or my next blog.
Regarding your comment: "When offered their own blog site by a Cape Cod Today editor, the "gang" said their leaders (back on the Mother Ship?)said "No go," apparently preferring a guerilla blog hit squad to reasonable conversations "on topic."
I asked Walter Brooks for a Blog when Capri launched Cafe Capri. His terms were posed to me, not them, and they included that I could only Blog if I agreed to speak for the Alliance. I declined, not the Alliance, as I stated to Walter, "It would be disingenous" for me to "speak for the Alliance." I speak for myself as always, and save all correspondence.
My husband finds the suggestion that I take orders to be comical.
Why is it so difficult for some Cape Wind proponents to accept that the opposition to Cape Wind proposed for Nantucket Sound extends well beyond the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound?
Jim Gordon may very well be a nice guy; but some places are just not suitable for an industrial scale wind facility.
You are being intrusive, and asking me to account for endless hours of the value of my time, absence from my other life, family life, as I am devoted this cause. Consider the time and energy, that extends well beyond my Blog efforts, and I am financially much poorer. Is is so hard for you to consider that some people embrace issues because they identify them as important?
I'm advocating for the long term preservation of Nantucket Sound that includes the preclusion of inappropriate development here.
I think that Nantucket Sound is a national treasure worth my time and personal and financial sacrifice to defend and protect.
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