Maine Opponents of Mountain Top Wind Farms Advance Legislation.

[NNadir]

Backpackers may recognize that the Appalachian Trail ends in Maine, near Mount Baxter.

Here's a scene from another mountain in the region:



http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/maine/mount-katahdin

Ah, but when you look at this picture, one cannot help noting that it's um missing something.

Um...

Um...

What could it be? What's missing? Um...um...um...

Oh wait, I know...

Trucks:



http://kirbymtn.blogspot.com/2010/02/lies-of-wind-developer.html

Apparently, it would seem that some people in Maine, malcontents no less, are trying to stop http://mountainridgeprotectionact.com/appalachian-voices-and-environmental-groups-for-wind/why-does-appalachian-voices-support-mountain-top-removal-for-wind-turbines/">Mountain Top Removal.

Some of these people live in Maine, too:

AUGUSTA — A group opposing industrial windmills atop Maine's mountain ranges has convinced several lawmakers to submit legislation that scrutinizes and reduces the speed of the state's wind power initiative.

Wind power proponents counter that the group isn't looking for transparency or to slow down wind development, but to stop it altogether.

Friends of Maine's Mountains, a recently formed nonprofit, this week unveiled nine bills sponsored by seven different lawmakers that address their primary concerns about former Gov. John Baldacci's Wind Energy Act of 2008, the initiative that fast-tracked wind power development in designated areas, including the state's western Mountains.

At the moment the legislation is merely bill titles. However, those titles echo concerns often expressed by wind power opponents, including site permitting, insufficient notice for public hearings for proposed projects, comprehensive wildlife surveys and the belief that wind generated electricity is too costly and doesn't justify the expense and permanency of windmills on Maine's mountaintops.

The bill's sponsors are both Democrats and Republicans who represent communities affected by the wind initiative.

Michael Pajak, the group's executive director, said he hoped that new faces in the Legislature would be more receptive to their concerns.

"We think this slate of bills provides a solid case for a closer look at this phenomena of industry wind before we proceed blasting away at Maine’s mountaintops and clear-cutting for new transmission lines for a fairly intermittent and expensive form of electricity," Pajak said.

http://www.sunjournal.com/state/story/969446">Wind power opponents advance legislation

Wind power - nothwithstanding it's real purpose which is to entrench the fracking gas industry until the last gram of methane is converted into carbon dioxide in the atmosphere - has an energy density problem. The smallest and oldest nuclear reactor in my state, New Jersey has consistantly, for more than 40 years, produced each year as the entire nation of Denmark, offshore oil and gas drilling hellhole, can produce in all of its windmills.

I would disagree with one statement in the article from the Maine paper though, the statement that refers to permanance. I mean those turbines, leaking grease and leaching metals will be there for centuries, but the people of Maine will only get electricity from them a decade or two, tops, before they become junk heaps in the woods, sort of like these babies in Hawaii:



http://denglerimages.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/G0000mRQlXzk_5w0/I0000eLa6MrmyQqY/38

Have a nice evening.

[Maine_Nurse]

1. That is Mount Katahdin

in Baxter State Park.

[DCKit]

2. Because a Nnewquelur power plant, next to a scenic river is more attractive? FAIL nt

[NNadir]

3. Um, yeah.

Despite the persistant efforts of the dangerous fossil fueled anti-nuke industry to express contempt for nuclear science, nuclear technology and nuclear power, in part by misspelling the word representing the science that won Glenn Seaborg the Nobel Prize, all nuclear plants are superior to all other forms of energy owing to nuclear's high energy density.

This plant, for instance, produces more electrical power than all of the wind farms in Denmark:


http://www.slocounty.ca.gov/Assets/OES/Diablo+Canyon+Power+Plant.jpg

It's the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant on the coast of California.

It produces more energy than the dam that destroyed, forever, the Glen Canyon, more energy than the dam that destroyed, forever, the Hetch Hetchy canyon. It produces on a few acres of land, more energy than all the toxic solar PV crap distributed as future electronic waste throughout California's suburban car CULTure hellholes and more energy than all the desert land permanently covered over out of complete ignorance with solar play things put there because of contempt for science and engineering by people who know nothing about science and engineering.

And it produces more energy than this awful pile of rusting and rotting junk:



Of course nuclear power is not perfect. But it doesn't have to be perfect to be infinitely superior to all the stuff that anti-nukes don't care about, like the activities of their pals at BP, or the wind scamming anti-nuke Gazprom executive Gerhard Schroeder's gas pipelines from Russia, nor all the bullshit leaky greasy wind crap in the sky, with hundreds of thousands of "service roads" through pristine protected forest.

No, to be better than everything else, nuclear power needs only to be better than everything else, which it is.

Not once in the last 20 years since anti-science, anti-environmental, anti-nukes shut Maine Yankee have they been less dependent on dangerous fossil fuels than they are now. Not once has wind energy produced as much energy in a year as that plant was capable of producing in a year.

Have a nice evening.

[DCKit]

4. Cool, sci-fi looking plant, but I have a question...

Is there a public access dock where I can go and scoop out my boiled, three eyed fish?

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[DCKit]

6. Thanks for the happy ending. nt

[Fledermaus]

7. some say tomato, i say umfruffrengargenzolital

[madokie]

8. Are you aware that one of the primary purposes of a Dam is for flood control

Before we had the three dams on our river out front we had floods almost yearly, some reaching for miles destroying everything in its path.

You have to be the most disgusting person on this board. No way can you have decent discussion about anything or anyone. :puke: My apologies to the mods and Admins

have a bad day I plan to have a good one myself