Great Words and Keep Up the Good Work

The writer, Carolyn R. Dodge, is another idiot who has fallen for this global warming crap!

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GLOBAL WARMING!

Check the emails!

Carolyn, if you want to generate your own power by alternate methods that is certainly your perrogative to do so....however please do not try to sell the idea to everyone.....You need to get with the times.....There is no man made global warming.....You may think that you are part of the solution, but your politics are the problem.....

Dodge erects a chickadee macerator and then craps all over actual wind turbines. And that ridiculous comment about fossil fuels for lubrication not being efficient was short bus material, man. This article was just plain stupid.

Carolyn sounds like a person with convictions and the courage to act on them. If all of us had this fortitude, the world would be a better place. She recognizes that the only thing industrial wind can do in Maine is destroy our environment. She also recognizes that wind power can be used on a smaller scale to help us live a more responsible life. And for those of you who can’t read, her reference to global warming was because industrial wind power is being shoved down our throats by crooked politicians supposedly to combat global warming. Industrial wind power is a scam. The only thing it accomplishes is developers getting rich on our tax dollars.

What we need is for our state Attorney General, Janet Mills, to make wind companies like First Wind and Angus King's Independence Wind to sign a Code of Conduct. That's exactly what First Wind had to sign in NY State, after their Attorney General began investigating them for bribery and intimidation. That investigation continues. See: http://www.ag.ny.gov/media_center/2008/jul/july15a_08.html

Also in NYS, US Congressman Eric Massa (D) has requested of President Obama that their stimulus gift (a total of $115 MILLION by the way), be revoked and has called for a GAO investigation of them - a company with a business model of LIE, CHEAT AND CORRUPT.

See: http://batr.net/cohoctonwindwatch/CohoctonWindmillsTOObama.pdf

Can you think of anyone in Maine who has been corrupted?

The other investigation of interest is the one that was reported in the Boston Herald about a few weeks ago at http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1212055

This one is about one of First Wind's top directors' longtime business partner, Oreste Vigorito being arrested in Italy on fraud by obtaining millions in public subsidies to build wind farms that either never worked properly or did not supply the promised amounts of energy. The pair worked together for seven years in Italy and even lived next door to each other for a time.

If you study them, you will see that First Wind started in Italy.

MAFIA.

Attorney General Mills refuses to make them sign a code of conduct. Her sister, our public health director, Dora Mills, steadfastly denies any health problems caused by the massive 400' tall turbines' noise and deep vibrations. Governor Baldacci's chief counsel of three years, Kurt Adams, runs development for this company. Governor King's son is rumored to run First Wind's mergers and acquisitions. LURC wind greenlighter Marcia Spencer Famous' husband just did a wind study that said there are no bats on the island of Vinalhaven, so all clear for the turbines.

Are you getting the picture? These people work for us and that Stimulus GIFT to them is our money. We hire our public officials and we can fire them. It is time for everyone to start getting involved and take our state back and our country back.

Carolyn is right on here. But people seem to be very scientifically challenged these days,

and politicians are some of the worst. The Industrial Wind Scam is monumental in lack of efficiency, both

scientifically and economically. It lies to the public, and the business model used for placement by the likes of First Wind, give it the proper

name "The Wind Mafia" scam.. It is really unconstitutional in nature, as citizen's had it shoved down their mouths by these same elected dummies,

illegallly by the "Expedited Wind Law " . Thank the The Governor's Task Force on Wind Power", and the inner circle of shills of

the" Wind Mafia" for this .

As Well,

Because of the nature of the wind and the limits of technology, engineers use

the term Capacity Factor to assess what percentage of its rated capacity a power plant

will actually deliver. Wind turbines don't begin generating electricity until wind speeds

hit around 8 mph and they shut off at wind speeds exceeding 55 mph to avoid damage.

They achieve rated capacity typically at wind speeds of 32-37 mph. Because of wind's

unpredictable intermittency and power fluctuations, along with the downtime for

maintenance, no windplants located in the eastern United States have achieved a capacity

factor of more than 30 percent. Although no power plants work at peak capacity all the time, the

capacity factor for wind is so low it has no rivals as an industrial power source. And in

summer months, when demand for electricity is highest, the likely capacity factor for

wind in this region will only be about 10 percent because of summer's light winds.

So, read the wind hype very carefully. Plate capacity, the Wind Turbine's theoretical value, is never attained,

(that is the number the Wind Mafia Marketeers use such as "23,000 homes will be supplied by electricity from this project".

In reality, perhaps a wind farm will produce power for 2300 homes, in the summer , when the wind blows the least,

at 3-6 AM in the morning when you are asleep, and you will be paying 30 cents a KW hour for the honor to

say it is green. SUCH A DEAL!

In addition , you will have to pay for the transmission lines to get to your house , when

your tax doller could have been better spent insulating your home for real cost savings in fossil fuel reduction.

It's difficult to understand why every kind of energy production is opposed by someone. Shut down Maine Yankee, fight hydroelectric, foam at the mouth about fossil fuels, and now a stupid crusade against wind power. How can someone be so completely challenged? Cats kill way more birds than windmills but does anyone advocate killing cats? No way, man.

Ther wind in Maine is rated POOR in virtually all the areas where wind farms have been put up or are proposed. Just google "wind resource map" and take a look for yourself. They produce almost no electricity, yet when they do produce spurts, they destabilize the grid - hence the call for new BILLIONS to be spent on massive transmission line eyesores which will be funded by ratepayers. They consume lots of electricity from the outside grid and backup fossil fuel plants have to be kept on simmer - a state where they burn lots of fossil fuel (inefficiently) but produce no electricity. So the wind farms are not even clean as they claim. It is all a big lie for Baldacci's friends to collect subsidies, like his former chief counsel who heads up development for windscammer First Wind - Kurt Adams. Funny how those in public office know where to scam money. Wind farmer Angus King's son went to work for First Wind in June to run their mergers & acquisitions. Will small Angus buy daddy Angus' company?

So would you support a nuclear reactor somewhere in Maine?

Yo, check it out - some dim-witted poltroon has give everyone who thought this article was total eartha the old thumbs-down. They can smooch my jet fighter, man.

Dear MiloCrabtree, your assinine comments do not in any way add to serious public discourse about a major issue in this state that this well written piece adresses. Don't embarass yourself or Milo; rather, do some research into the multitude of negative aspects to the proliferation of industrial wind turbines across rural Maine. Its obvious that Ms. Dodge has done her research and even found her home scaled turbine just doesn't live up to the hype. That's more than most people have done. I can't get over how people in Maine so superficially accept the Big Lie about the panacea of wind energy and sell out this state for a pittance. We will be stuck with thousands of industrial size turbines despoiling our beautiful countryside. The thieves from the wind industry laugh all the way to the bank with taxpayers' and ratepayers' money!

My introduction to wind energy on industrial or utility scale came eight years ago. When traveling in Devon, in England, coming to the top of a hill in the moors, before me lay an incredible sight. Hundreds of utility scale wind turbines. My initial impression was “Wow”! “Awesome”! I thought, isn’t that neat that they are getting “free” energy from the wind. Shortly thereafter, we had lunch at a local pub and I asked the local people about the wind turbines. Nobody there had anything good to say about them.

Back home, my curiosity led me to investigate industrial scale wind. My experience was like peeling an onion. What I perceived on the outside was far different than what was beneath. The more I peeled the layers, the more was revealed. The more I learned about industrial scale wind, the more I saw what was an incredibly slick lobbying, marketing, and misinformation campaign positioning wind as the panacea for issues relating to energy and climate change.

The forces which stand to profit from the proliferation of industrial wind essentially co-opted the public’s awareness of climate change issues for their own gain. This campaign has resulted in public policy and legislation that has set up subsidies, outright grants, favorable tax code, and favorable regulatory rules to prop up an industry that would not exist without these measures.

Thank you Ms. Dodge for your well written piece. Now, the rest of you, learn more about the horrible scam of the wind industry. As taxpayers and ratepayers, you have to stop it, or you and future generations will pay dearly. A good first step is visiting the Citizen's Task Force on Wind Power: http://www.windtaskforce.org/ or go to www.friendsoflincolnlakes.org and click on the loon icon to view the slide show, its a good contrast between the beauty of Lincoln Lakes threatened by First Wind and the hideous industrial sprawl of First Wind's Stetson project 30 miles from Lincoln.

Already did the research, man, and what I've found is that my comments are no more assinine than yours. Ms. Dodge's article is complete twaddle and just another bleating diatribe against any form of energy that doesn't return us to hunter/gatherers. Just like the rubbish you've written. Always some dark force at work and always a gaggle of boobs that need a cause to make their lives meaningful. Always NIMBY and always the indignation of stupidity. Give it a freakin rest, dude.

Great letter Carolyn, and congrats to Dixmont for looking at the facts and voting intelligently. How about Hydro Quebec for cheaper power for Maine, assuming they have workable fish ladders? BH and CMP would have a fit with the extra competition. The bonus is saving the mountains and ridgelines, scenery from the lakes, people's health etc. and not blowing millions of tax dollars to make a few windsprawl CEOs rich. Hey FirstWind... hire Milo Crabtree, he's your kind of guy!! No really!!