Oh wow.. 1 million killowatts.. enough for 100 homes at 11 cents /killo. Maine Yankee nuclear used to produce 1.4 Gigawatts (1500 X as much) at 4.5 cents/killo with zero CO2 and no environmental damage, or bird kills. This is like the limbo dance.. "how low can you go" before you collapse.

I agree that the big bad nuke monster is more like a house cat that keeps pee'n on the carpet because the people in the house aren't taking care of her properly....but a small renewables for institutions likes schools do make sense financially.

More Nukes, more wind, more hydro, more gas, more coal (with FGD of coarse!) and we'll be using what's here and chug'n along just fine.

I've gotta tell ya....the reliability rating of these wind units aint all that great from a maintenance perspective. The Wind blowing is THE most reliable aspect of the machines.

Can we name these after Gehrig too? Give me a break.. the madness of free run and spending for Dr. Johnson needs to be reeled in. Im glad the people spoke and denied the first budget. To bad that Gehrig had to threaten jobs and do a phone campaign to get the second voting passed. SAD 1 employees alone could swing the vote if they went out and voted as ordered by administration.

THATS THE PROBLEM. AS IN THE WHOLE STATE OF MAINE GOVERMENT, TO MANY EMPLOYEES.

This is going to be the fraud in Obama's new "green" economy. First he's going to tax us all to death with cap & trade, and then we get small organizations like SAD 1 (they are small in the scope of things) paying $200,000 to "study" and see if windmills make sense?????????

Maybe if we didn't have to pay the super so much for his expertise we could afford to have a few ideas put into action.

I think for what it cost to have him as super in our school district is highway robbery. What the he-- is the school board thinking

with letting him make rules and decisions that only better his wallet. Too bad he wouldn't hire some qualified teachers to teach

the kids who have learning disabilities, because the ones on the payroll haven't got a clue at what they are doing. My daughter has been

lost in the system since the day I enrolled her. Our school board is a joke and the community should be in an uproar to even

consider spending even more money to investigate something. If the super would take a pay cut or work for a $1.00 a year for a couple

of years maybe we could afford to pursue this. They can't even afford to buy books that aren't falling apart for the kids to use.

It's not about education for him or the school board it's about what they can put out there to look good at our expense.

I was taught to live within my means and not spend money I don't have...but the school district and the governments (local, state, and federal)

are spending money the people don't have and they can't seem to stop.If you don't have the money it doesn't get done. We need to get rid of

both the baldee and johnson. My kid doesn't stand a chance in this enviroment

$200,000 to study seems a bit over priced to me. 2 towers collecting data for a year or two shouldn't anywhere neat that amount. Having a turbine right at the site of demand is great, hope they go with it, just watch what you are paying. NorthwoodsManiac- where are you getting your reliability information from?

Tell me folks, why do so many studies have to be done and what is everybody trying to prove? Let me see; if the wind blows, the blades rotate and if the wind doesn't blow, the blades don't rotate; so now let me see, on average how many windy days do we have in a given area; oh wow, there is a wind or at least a nice breeze the vast majority of the time, so I surmise the wind turbine(s) is going to produce something! I don't know how economical the new wind turbines are, however, windmills have been around since the eleventh or twelfth century and perhaps before and they've benefited untold numbers of people.