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Wind Turbines – What Should Be a New Auto Industry
May. 22 | from http://www.manitowoccranes.com/site/GB/NREN20091030a.aspx - also a lesson in getting the camera lined up correctly, as that is not a leaning tower of Pisa knockoff. It actually stands 113 meters tall (370 feet) and if it is not vertical it won't...
The Fracking Window
May. 3 | One of the new RE Power 2.05 MW MM92 wind turbines installed by Everpower at their Howard Wind Farm in Steuben County, NY (so far 25 installed, two more to go). It sure beats looking at a pontification advertisement by noted horse admirer and local...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
Carbon (Dioxide Pollution) Pricing – A Fast Road to Nowhere
Apr. 22 | One of the winners in this year's European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) photo-contest. The EWEA 2012 annual conference was just held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and was a big success by most accounts. This picture is from http://www.ewea.org/index.php?id=917...
French Lesson
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Fukushima – It’s Been a Year since "Oops" Had an Exclamation Mark
Mar. 10 | From the good folks at the Union (of Concerned Scientists): http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/safety/fukushima-anniversary-report.html?utm_source=SP&utm_medium=link2&utm_campaign=fukushima-anniversary And the GOOD news...
A CLEAN-FIT Read
Feb. 24 | The recent additions to the Steelwinds site - six new Clipper C96 units known officially as "Steelwinds 2" in Lackawanna and Hamburg. Picture from http://www.buffalonews.com/business/local-business/article736169.ece. At the "christening", lots of positive...
2011 – The World of Wind part 2
Feb. 21 | From http://www.power-technology.com/projects/hornsreefwind/images/2-offshore-wind-farm.jpg - a picture of the Horns Rev 1 wind farm on a rare sunny day in the array.IntroductionThe Horns Rev 1 wind farm was completed on December 11, 2002 - at 160 MW,...
Climate Ignorance
Feb. 15 | From http://citizentom.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/hummer-gas-prices_jpg_w300h300.jpgAnd yeah, it's a "two-fer" - using all that gasoline to drive a few tons of metal around for one relatively tiny person by comparison not only cranks up demand for imported...
The Natural Gas Trickster Problem
Feb. 9 | From http://news.hjnews.com/news/article_b87ec744-d1ea-11e0-abad-001cc4c03286.htmlMany decades ago, natural gas (methane, fossil fuel form, alias Ngas) was proposed as the fossil fuel "bridge" between coal and a nuclear future. But then that nuclear future...
Wanted: A Mission for 1.8 Million USA Engineers
Feb. 5 | An Enercon E126 x 7.5 MW wind turbine, installed and operating in Austria (one of a pair of them). Image from http://www.flickr.com/photos/rockenbauer/6702504217/. Even though this turbine model is a few years old, it is still one of the most advanced...
Proposed LIPA Feed-In Tariff Bills/Pilot Project
Jan. 25 | A PV system on the property of the US Energy lab at Brookhaven, on Long Island, NYfrom http://www.lipower.org/company/powering/solar-bp.htmlIntroductionAssemblyman Fred Thiele (Independent, AD2) who caucuses with the Democrats (used to be a Republican...
Your NY Electric Bill Explained – And What It Means
Jan. 20 | IntroductionIt now can be logically argued that we now have less freedom (= less rights) than even a decade ago - for example, via indefinite detention, "legal" assassination of Americans, (lack of) on-line privacy, the "death" of "habeus corpus" and...
Lake Ontario Idea
Jan. 18 | See http://www.principlepowerinc.com/products/windfloat.html for detailsThis is a picture of a big deployment of wind turbines in deep waters, sometime in the future. So far, just one of these units has been deployed off of the coast of Portugal, in deep...
Macroeconomics, WNY and Wind Power
Jan. 5 | Graph by Jerome Guillet, from http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2011/12/19/121933/16 Long Introduction Macroeconomics is so important, and generally so misunderstood, especially by right wing economists and associated business types. But rather than launch...
NY New Years Resolution – Real Wealth Creating Jobs, En Masse
Dec. 26 | from http://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/windmaps/offshore_states.asp?stateab=ny - your tax dollars at workIntroductionThere are many famous sayings with respect to "too late". A classic is "shutting the barn door after the horse has got out". Or "better...
WNY’s New Wind Farms – the Last of Their Kind for Some Time
Dec. 18 | IntroductionIf you've driven by the relics of Bethlehem Steel recently, you will see that 6 more Clipper 2.5 MW wind turbines are now installed. This 15 MW addition to the existing 25 MW array will soon be generating electricity. The incentives used...
Indian Point and Fracking for Methane in NY State
Dec. 15 | From http://nuclearromance.wordpress.com/2011/08/31/quake-raises-red-flags-for-indian-point-nukes/IntroductionAs you may have heard, there is a big fracking controversy in NY State, and especially in the rural regions that stand in the cross hairs of...
Germany, Jobs and PV Electricity – Some Lessons for the USA
Dec. 13 | From http://www.solarworld.de/en/solar-power/projects-and-campaigns/for-farmers/The money quote: "Every single ray of sunshine provides a secure income, thanks to a SolarWorld solar power system and state incentives guaranteed under the German Renewable...
Germany, Jobs and PV Electricity – Some Lessons for the USA
Dec. 13 | From http://www.solarworld.de/en/solar-power/projects-and-campaigns/for-farmers/The money quote: "Every single ray of sunshine provides a secure income, thanks to a SolarWorld solar power system and state incentives guaranteed under the German Renewable...
2011 Durban Climate Talks – A Failure to Communicate
Dec. 10 | From http://www.nordex-online.com/fileadmin/MEDIA/Fotos/nordex_hybrid-tower_140meters.jpg, a 2.5 MW turbine on a 140 meter tall "hybrid" tower (80 meters concrete, 60 meters steel), located in a very industrial part of some city (possibly Hamburg,...
2011 Durban Climate Talks – A Failure to Communicate
Dec. 8 | From http://www.nordex-online.com/fileadmin/MEDIA/Fotos/nordex_hybrid-tower_140meters.jpg, a 2.5 MW turbine on a 140 meter tall "hybrid" tower (80 meters concrete, 60 meters steel), located in a very industrial part of some city (possibly Hamburg, Germany)....
Denmark’s Newest Offshore Wind Array
Dec. 7 | One of the monopile foundations for the Anholt wind farm made at the Bladt factory in Aalborg, Denmark. These often use 4" thick steel plates that have to get rolled into "cans", then welded, and then these are welded together after passing inspection/documenting...
