The Meaning of New York’s Carbon Trading Move - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Governor David A. Paterson of New York is thinking of giving the utility industry more free allowances to pollute under the Northeast carbon-trading system, as my colleague Danny Hakim reports today.
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Carbon traders worry that a move by New York could undermine confidence in the fledgling carbon-trading market.

The carbon-trading plan “has struggled with credibility from day one given the starting overallocation of emissions allowances,” Alex Rau, of the carbon trading firm Climate Wedge, said in an e-mail message, “and behavior from the regulators like this will only undermine what little confidence there has been in the market.”

More Doubts on “Green Jobs” — MasterResource

According to the politician’s logic, if the government required that all buildings be outfitted with polka dot wallpaper, it would stimulate the economy.

Wind Watch: Wind turbine collapses in Altona

It can take weeks to construct and energize a single turbine, which at full height stands about 392 feet tall.

Wind Watch: Blades as fast as a guillotine

What is hard to comprehend is that at 20 rotations per minute, the tip speed of the blades for the three turbines works out to 180 mph, 215 mph and 222 miles per hour. The speed and power of these blades is what amputates the wings and heads off flying eagles. From miles away the blades look rather slow, but up close these huge blades move faster than a guillotine.

Wind Watch: Wind farms are not 'farms'

There is an awfully big push these days to have farms turned into wind factories, to take agricultural land and turn it into an industrial wind turbine complex, complete with all the infrastructure of access roads, poles and wires. This is NOT farming. This is not even remotely similar to farming even though many still like to call a gaggle of 400-foot wind turbines a wind ‘farm’.

They are nothing more than an industrial use of agricultural landscape.