tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15822793.post417661784338901084..comments2023-10-19T14:09:58.257-07:00Comments on The Enviro Show: Cape Wind: Corporate privatization of The CommonsD.O.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15028643252947711334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15822793.post-88424316080697103892012-07-11T10:06:15.501-07:002012-07-11T10:06:15.501-07:001. Wind energy cannot replace, nor significantly ...1. Wind energy cannot replace, nor significantly decrease the need for continuous conventional production capacity. It is an add on cost. It cannot be called upon on demand like other baseload conventional plants.<br />2. Wind does not decrease the fuel of conventional generation one for one. It causes inefficiencies, ramping up and down, more wear and tear of baseload plants that cause greater emissions there to almost offset the few gains of wind energy. If you figure in the emission costs of production of wind turbines, cement, transport, etc., more emission savings are lost. These are not figured into AWEA costs.<br />3. Environmental costs by AWEA do not include land/water occupation and loss, which make the area unfit for humans due to hazards and noise and property value losses.<br />http://www.wind-watch.org/documents/wind-turbines-as-yet-unsuitable-as-electricity-providers/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15822793.post-31812944532297039882010-08-05T08:26:19.816-07:002010-08-05T08:26:19.816-07:00I would like to add to your excellent post that no...I would like to add to your excellent post that not only will the public be subsidizing private profit for its appropriation of The Common, but it allows the CW site to command a handsome premium when this developer sells it to another profit interest, as has been his M.O. in the past. CW will have opened Nantucket Sound to permanent development and that will be a windfall for this developer (no pun intended).<br /><br />Please remember, also, that the wind in MA is on land, and is only reliable at heights higher than the Statue-of-Liberty-sized towers this project proposes.<br /><br />Lastly, this rigid turbine tech will arrive from Germany, paid for with stimulus/energy dollars, and is really old, soon-to-be-scrapped technology. Why aren't we leading the world in new wind tech instead of scrambling to spend billions on old, inefficient solutions?<br /><br />See:<br />http://www.makanipower.com/<br /><br />Looking back over 35 years, I'm convinced the government/private industry collusion cannot solve our critical energy problems. It's always the profit motive that kills real conservation.<br /><br />Conservationists need to regroup and stop this project cold. Do your homework! Don't endorse "green" projects until you look under the hood. (Yes, Greenpeace, UCS, NRDC, MA Audubon - get a life. Do your due diligence!!)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00936438230457987471noreply@blogger.com