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The jury is still out on biofuels. It's possible they create more greenhouse gasses than traditional fuels. Also, check the pollution that biofuels are creating in Iowa and the rainforest destruction in the Brazillian Amazon. Still a lot of work to do.

A beautifully written piece, Liz! Bill McKibben and Al Gore should be pleased by the Cape's event and this wonderful report. And it points out ways we can all play more of a role in the battle to slow down climate change with its disasters.

"Can We Do Anything about Global Warming?"

Since we can't control cosmic movement how about consuming a little less energy. I know!! That would be inconvenient.

Wow, a pot luck was scheduled. I didn't see that coming.

Where is the abutters list that Cape Wind failed to produce which in turn prevented the Cape Cod Commission from conducting proper Notice for Hearing on the Cape Wind FEIR?

That information might answer your question, Peter.

I agree with the point you're making--the objections to this project are vast and held by the rich as well as the not so rich.

Cape Wind would produce some of the most expensive electricity in the world. Rich NIMBYs would be the only people who could afford the rate increase.

New York Times 7/07/07
Nicholas G. Boulukos

“This opposition is bolstered by the economic facts of the project - according to previously confidential documents obtained by Newsday, energy from the proposed wind plant would cost Long Island ratepayers as much as double the wholesale cost of energy.”

*would be happy to scout

I live in Federal Hill and would happy to scout locations for the new Providence Wind project. I do charge an hourly fee, plus meals (hey, if I'm gonna be on Atwells anyway...).

Better yet, to heck with Atwells. Go to Broadway one street over for great lunch at Julian's or Nick's; dinner will be at Loie Fuller's, the new French place just a short walk from my apartment. They serve La Chouffe!

I'm guessing this book is really just a good replacement for Unisom.

Hmmm....

Federal Hill...love the area. Great food, old style city street life...very high....great place for...........wind turbines? They could also be used to hang and dry that lovely fresh pasta.
Let's see....get off Rte. 95 at Atwell's Avenue...go past Raymond's old 'club' on the right....then past Providence Police headquarters...then across and left, up towards.....yup, I remember! Bada BING!

WB...I would be happy to take Peter for lunch on Federal Hill. He would be treated like royalty.

Krista...Where is Bill B? Looking for Whitey I hope. That is the only view he should be concerned with.

Let's not forget the real problem; private ownership of public land. I mean of course, the private ownership of the the public's shoreline. Only in Massachusetts can you own the shoreline, to whichever low tide mark. Other east coast states allow ownership only to high tide lines. But on the west coast they have 100 yard set backs. In either case, the public can use the shorelines. Not so in Massachusetts.
Stop being distracted by what's going on in Nantucket Sound. The real theft of property took place a century ago on then beach. I say let's take back the shoreline. Where is Billy Bulger when we need him!
If the waterfronted gentry did not own the shoreline, they wouldn't think that they owned the view either.

Peter, you'll never be able to have lunch in Providence again
;>)

I hate sloppy reporting as much as the next guy. So...please identify those owning residential property on the shores on Nantucket Sound who fall into the category of the richest people in the world. Are we talking the Forbes list...500? The not so well known 5,000? or just anyone with nmore money than you and Walter? And, when can the poor folks who live inland expect a lampoon- ing in a book devoted to us...many of us opposed the wind farm too...even before the swells knew about it. Is there a little literary snobbery afoot here? Hell, I know guys who drive pickup trucks and work with their hands who oppose it...of course some of them worked on Bill Koch's house, so maybe they don't count.

".....so many of the world's wealthiest people...."? Who are they and out of what total number of "the world's wealthiest people"?

Wendy should blog here.

Mav: please run down your arguments again, which you must have stated at some point in the past, as to how the wind farm would negatively affect commercial fishing and recreational boating.

Saying that a commercial fisherman's association or any association, for that matter, is opposed the wind farm is not the same as stating the specific facts and reasons for their opposition.

I'm all ears.

Wendy,

When I saw Romney at the State House make his statement against the wind farm, he was READING straight from the talking papers of the "Alliance."

How could a Governor be so unashamed as to be an unabashed shill for such an obvious special interest group?

If this idiot ever becomes president, the whole country will be in crisis. I doubt he's ever had an original thought of his own.

I hear that some commercial fishermen in nantucket sound don't even have marine heads and so they go in a bucket...

Do they dump it over the side or haul the bucket back to port?

Dear Wendy and CCT...this " Special " body of water is just that.

It is a major migratory avian flyway for endangered species. It is an area that supports many commercial fishermen. And it is also a major navigational waterway for recreational boaters who add multi-millions of dollars to the Mass. economy.

Many opponents are not against renewable energy. Just the siting of this wind factory in the middle of a " National Treasure ".

They feel the " drop in the renewable energy bucket " from this land grab is not worth the destruction of the Sound.

http://imhz.livejournal.com/4944.html

I made up my mind.

The political winds have changed. The wind farm will be built. Green is in...

You can argue birds and economics all day. In the end, it's all political....

If I were in the Mellon family and had a baby, I'd name it Blind or Honeydew.

Yes Chuck, facts do speak all by themselves. The German grid operator E. On Netz has far more experience with wind power than ISO New England or any other grid operator in the world. Here are bits and pieces from the company’s ‘Wind Report 2005’

“At the end of last year, there was an installed wind power capacity of over 7,000 MW in the E.ON Netz grid area… more than the entire wind power capacity of the United States.”
“…dependence on the prevailing wind conditions means that wind power has a limited load factor even when technically available… Traditional power stations with capacities equal to 90% of the installed wind power capacity must be permanently online in order to guarantee power supply at all times… the increased use of wind power in Germany has resulted in uncontrollable fluctuations occurring on the generation side due to the random character of wind power feed-in… Guaranteed wind power capacity is below ten percent – traditional power stations [remain] essential.”

Thank you, Dona, for contacting the AWEA to substantiate the fact that theirs is a trade association.

“The fear is that with all the new wind farms rolling out, there is a new Altamont being created today,” says Greg Butcher, National Audubon’s director of bird conservation. “But because we don’t have the data, we just don’t know about it."

"The first rule of avoiding negative impacts is a familiar adage: location, location, location," she added. "It is essential that industry wide environmental safeguards be developed so that each wind project can be considered on its own merits with appropriate studies before and after construction." [Audubon V.P. Betsy Loyless]

Cape Wind will die by self inflicted wounds as they have selected the wrong location, location, location.

I get it...It's do as I say, not as I do.

Thanks...what do Chuck K's comments have to do with your supposed book review?

Facts on Nantucket Wind

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not to make up facts. When substantiated, facts speak for themselves.

On averages. If wind produces 100 MWh for on hour and 200 MWh the next, the average for those two hours are 150 MWh. Everyone (almost) understands that.

As documented by the Dept. of Energy, the total wind production on Horseshoe Shoal for the year Apr. 03 to Mar. 04, according to wind measured by the data tower (every ten minutes), would have been 1,691,261 MWh or an average of 193 MW. And that’s a capacity factor of 42%. Not too bad.

Every MWh from wind dispatched on the grid means one less MWh from a fossil generation plant. You can’t store energy on the grid.

Fossil plants do no run at full load or burn more fuel than necessary to produced the power they are allowed to dispatch by ISO NE. Right now all generators in NE are putting out about 15,000 MW from a total installed capacity of about 33,000 MW.

The Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound has led, and continues to lead the fight to spare Nantucket Sound from inappropriate development. Cape Wind has selected the wrong site as this area is under current use that conflicts with this proposal.

We cannot afford to ignore the lesson of Altamont. Do not site turbines in a migratory flyway and an endangered species habitat; location, location, location.

We can't afford to ignore the public safety warnings coming from the experts.

In the words of the National Air Traffic Controllers Cape TRACON to the USACE:

“The evidence of endangerment to all who travel by air sea over and upon Nantucket Sound is compelling.”

Aesthetics are subjective, but I must share that I do find them to be inferior to God's handiwork by a very wide margin.

No Neil. You think wind projects are fine as long as they aren't on Horseshoe Shoal.

That's your issue.

So you think that was a ridiculous question? You don’t believe commercial sail/wind power will be returning to the high seas? I don’t either.

It is also ridiculous to believe wind power can provide a significant, cost effective, amount of electricity in the future- for the same reasons we won’t be seeing clipper ships return- wind power is just too unreliable.

It is now nearly flat calm on Nantucket Sound. Seven straight hours without enough wind to produce a single watt of electricity.

Neil - are you high on Crack today?

I do understand the concept. Everything I see convinces me that a huge industrial wind power plant in the center of Nantucket Sound would be impractical and unnecessary.

Here is a report making the rounds today. Paul Watson, “…founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns mankind is “acting like a virus” and is harming Mother Earth….”

Watson urged some solutions for mankind-

“Sea transportation should be by sail. The big clippers were the finest ships ever built and sufficient to our needs. Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary…” "Watson essentially called for humans to return to primitive lifestyles. “We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. The Mennonites survive without cars and so can the rest of us.”

Moses, do you think sail power will return in the sea transportation field? Or would that be just too impractical?

Neil - call MMA up and get a report. Do a FOIA request... whatever you want.

MMA SAYS 50% ($100,000) per year is generated by the wind turbine.

I was a student there for 4 years and it is windy quite often Neil.

I've spent a lot of time on the water and conditions on the water don't always match those ashore.

Neil, you seem like a smart guy but you just don't understand the concept.

More bad news for wind power proponents. I just checked the MMA turbine web page too. Wind power is NOT working right now. The turbine is producing “Zero Kw’s”. Seems there is something fishy with the MMA turbine web page. The graph says the turbine produced 100 Kw at noon, but there is practically no wind to speak of. The ‘generating’ number has been at ‘zero Kw’ all morning and early afternoon.

Where can I find that public record Moses?

Five straight hours have now passed with ZERO Mw hours ‘projected’ output from Cape Wind.

Just checked out the site.
http://www.maritime.edu/l2.cfm?page=160

Wind power works. Put in CapeWind.

Btw, Has anyone done a study to see if there are any dead birds by this thing?

I found a few articles that said the birds seem to avoid it. Haven't found any articles showing dead ones. If anyone has photos of dead birds by the mass maritime turbine please post them.

Neil - have you visited MMA yet???

Wind power is the source of 50% of the campus energy needs. This is public record. I'm surprised that you haven't reviewed this to realize that there is a benefit.

Publicly or Privately funded wind turbines generate the same amount of electricity, wind conditions being the same...

Neil - Walter Cronkite is going to have to lay up his sailboat or motor around according to you...

I wonder how the Nantucket Whaling fleet was able to decimate the Right Whales with such fickle winds.

Hmm.. How did the America's Cup race ever happen every year for over 100 years with such fickle wind?

How is it that I'm looking at a chart showing vessels wrecked all along the Cape Cod coastline when these vessels were sail powered and calling from foreign ports?

How did the Pilgrims make it over with Neil's constant statements of no wind no wind no wind...?

Randall Swisher, director of the American Wind Energy Association uses the term ”inexhaustible" to describe wind power. Cape Wind’s spokesman says wind is ‘blowing by us all the time.”

Yet, according to Cape Wind’s data tower web page- “Based on the average wind speeds over the past [4] hours, the Cape Wind Project would have produced 0 [Zero] Mw hours of clean local, renewable energy”

The only reliable part of industrial wind power is the hype and wishful thinking that comes with it.

Barbara - you and Robert Kennedy share the same mininformed ideas about wind power.

A great comment on the DR Show today was a windsurfer from Martha's Vineyard who finds it hard to believe the fisherman are up in arms when some show no regard for the environment while bottom dragging/clear cutting in the sound.

According to Wendy Williams, SOS/Alliance has spent 15 million with no scientific studies to show for it.

SOS/Alliance doesn't speak for the general public. They speak for Bill Koch (Coal Magnate) and other carbon-trading, high-heeled folk.

I would expect that your name will be mentioned in the book Barbara?

I wonder how many of the 40 home owners who plan to 'nourish' their beach by dredging in Nantucket Sound have come out against the Cape Wind project...?

..."where the Endangered Species Act "presents a conflict" should be avoided in their position statements/guidelines." to clarify my last comment, thank you.