Wind Watch: Renewable power deals condemned as a 'greenwash'

Hundreds of thousands of consumers are being misled by the green tariffs offered by power companies to boost renewable energy, says a report due out this week.

The tariffs do virtually nothing to promote new renewable supplies and can be costly and confusing, according to the Carbon Accountability Programme, set up by environmentalists in Edinburgh.

Wind Watch: Wind, but no power

MOUNTAIN IRON — The 10 wind turbines at the Taconite Ridge wind farm will probably still be motionless until early February, a company spokesperson said Thursday.

Nine of the ten wind turbines now are having repairs done to blades, instead of just five, that was reported earlier. The completion date for repairs has been pushed back from mid-January, said Amy Rutledge, Minnesota Power communications manager.

A second crane is being moved in to help in lifting the 153-feet-long, 15-ton blades off the turbines. Each turbine has three blades.

“It is a big project to take these blades down,” she said.

The later completion date is due to more blade repairs, and “wind issues,’’ as the weather has been rough lately in bringing the blades down, Rutledge said.
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Company spokespersons have said in the past that supplementary power that is generated by wind, which goes to a grid, usually produces power about 20-25 percent of the time.

Global warming alarmists - The Reporter

Articles like the one by Associated Press Science Writer Seth Borenstein ( "Obama may feel heat on global warming" Dec. 15) are increasingly shrill and have more to do with a political agenda rather than science.
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Bruce Benz
Vacaville