Wind Watch: Overwhelming support for anti-wind farm campaign

Campaigners fighting plans to build a wind farm near Bottesford were shown overwhelming support at an action meeting held in the village on Wednesday.

Wind Watch: Wind power no magic solution for U.S. or Maine's energy needs

In the case of energy, that magic word these days is “wind.” A resource with no fuel cost and a perpetual source of supply and no harmful emissions, it seems to be the perfect answer.

The Maine Legislature has voted that there should be 3,000 megawatts (a megawatt equals a million watts) of wind power in Maine by 2020. That is something like voting for free ice cream.

Wind power makes inefficient use of the generator. Because the wind does not blow hard all the time, we would probably get 600 to 900 megawatts out of the 3,000. The fuel may be cheap, but the generator isn’t.

Ross Garnaut climate report publishing deal is red hot | The Australian

TAXPAYERS have been forced to pay almost $65,000 to allow the Department of Climate Change to buy copies of the [688-page] Garnaut report, which was completed with more than $2.3 million of public money.