Speaking of Offsets

Here’s a question: I know Obama Inc. is a rather large enterprise — surely in comparison to McCain-Palin — but whatever happened to the vaunted claims by both teams to offset their emissions? We haven't heard much since the initial breast-beating, and a quick perusal of their websites reveal few details of compliance in addressing what — right after the election — will be resurrected as the gravest threat facing mankind. Until whatever it is that Biden was briefed on happens, I mean.

Has it, as anticipated, proved too pie-in-the-sky for even such relatively small operations to achieve carbon neutrality? And, if so, what does that say about the same folks insisting that the entire country be mandated to do it?

What Goes Around Doesn’t Always Come Around

A report Thursday in the Peoria Journal Star, an Illinois.-based newspaper, quoted Richard Shertz, a farmer from near Wyanet, Ill., as saying he heard a noise like thunder Wednesday morning and later found the huge blade lying in one of his cornfields, 150 feet away from the turbine’s tower. A photo accompanying the article shows the Suzlon turbine tower with a stump near the central hub where one of the blades should have been attached.

Earlier this year, Suzlon said it was recalling 1,251 blades, or almost the entire number it has sold to date in the U.S. after cracks were found on over 60 blades on turbines run by Deere and Edison International’s Edison Mission Energy.