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High and Hidden Costs: There is Nothing Free about the Wind
What was normally a peaceful, quiet way of life for residents of Vinalhaven, an island off the coast of Maine, suddenly became loud and unbearable when utilities operating three new wind turbines...
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Cape Wind Power: What’s Cost Got to Do with It?
After nearly a decade, the Cape Wind offshore project has a lease approval from the Department of Interior, but it is not quite up and running. Once the 130 turbines that stand 440 feet high (taller...
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Google to Back “Spine” That Could Transmit Wind Power
Google is coming to a (future) offshore wind farm near you. In an announcement Tuesday, the technology giant said it is joining with investment firm Good Energies in a $5 billion investment to secure...
View ArticleTax Extenders: Extend the Wind PTC Expiration Permanently
Yesterday the Senate decided to take up legislation to extend a package of tax breaks that expired last year. The task before Senators now is deliberating how much they want to pad Warren Buffett’s...
View ArticleHoly Wind Power, Batman!
It’s a good thing the unusually throaty, (AP says it’s Clint Eastwood meets grizzly bear) Christian Bale only had to deal with The Joker in The Dark Knight and not wind turbines. A new study released...
View ArticleThrowing Caution to the Wind on Wind Power
25 by 2025. That’s the target proposal for a federally mandated renewable portfolio standard RPS (also called renewable electricity standard RES) in which the federal government would mandate to have...
View ArticleRenewable Energy Goals Could Force Blackouts in Britain
From the UK’s Telegraph: “Demand for power from homes and businesses will exceed supply from the national grid within eight years, according to official figures. The shortage of supplies will hit the...
View ArticleSolar Shutdown: Feinstein to Block Energy Projects
We need to transform to a new, clean energy economy but we can’t build solar panels in the Mojave Desert if California Senator Diane Feinstein has anything to say about it: Senator Dianne Feinstein...
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Green Jobs or Green Gyms?
How do you solve homelessness, obesity and global warming all at once? A green gym, of course: Cass Community Social Services (Cass) will further its commitment to the Detroit community and the...
View ArticleWind Mills: Not Spinning, Not Creating Jobs
The cold weather is creating a number of unintended consequences for new energy designs. First, snow accumulating on LED traffic light bulbs wouldn’t melt because the lights failed to heat up resulting...
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Energy Subsidies Prove Unsustainable
There is nothing like economic hardship to make a country step back and take a fresh look at its priorities. When faced with a need for drastic budget cuts and job creation, countries such as Spain,...
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Flat-Earth Thinking on Gas Prices?
President Obama blasted oil-drilling advocates last week, equating their solution for high gas prices to people who didn’t believe the Earth is round. President Obama said, They dismiss wind power....
View ArticleThe Second Coming of Cap and Trade?
The Obama Administration, at this sensitive time, is playing down its expansive regulatory agenda, but some insiders are predicting a new onslaught of costly rules—including the imposition of...
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Installing Windmills Doesn’t Make the Wind Blow
A tweet from the Department of Energy (DOE) gives a link to a DOE webpage highlighting a graph from, and giving a link to, a study by the American Wind Energy Association. Skipping the question of how...
View ArticleWhy Wind Power Has Low Economic Value
Michael Goggin, manager of transmission policy at the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), posted a second response to my report “Wind Intermittency and the Production Tax Credit: A High Cost...
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Wind Power: Only When the Wind Blows and the Subsidies Flow
Jerry & Marcy Monkman / DanitaDelimont.com “Danita Delimont Photography”/Newscom Wind turbines produce power only when the wind is blowing. But perhaps more importantly, wind production builds only...
View ArticleWhite House Does Want an Energy Supply Line, but It’s Not Keystone
This week, Heritage chief economist Stephen Moore pointed out the national security risks of the development of an “environmentally friendly” energy supply line advocated for by the Obama...
View ArticleIn Australia, the Green Energy Fantasy Has Collapsed
If you are sailing miles from shore and come upon the rusted prows of sunken ships, you can be sure that water is not that deep and it would be a good idea to change course. Australia is just the...
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