Families Seek Refunds From Wind Turbine Supplier - wcco.com

Shirley and Jon agreed to purchase the $68,000 turbine from Farm Boy, giving the company about $50,000 in payments as work progressed. By late November 2008, the tower was up and the turbine mounted at the top. Underground power cables were trenched to the couple's home. But that's as far as work got.

Ten months later their investment should be paying off, spinning out free energy. Instead it sits idle, a source of grief.

Faulty Wind Turbines Costly To Minn. Family - wcco.com

For the fully installed price of $74,000, the couple signed a contract for a 20-kilowatt wind turbine from Farm Boy Energy, a company based in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Still without any wind power, but saddled by over $50,000 in debt, the couple has no choice but to make their monthly bank payments. They took out a loan to help pay for the cost of the project, leaving them with a $600 monthly payment.

Jessie said she has to laugh at the sight of the motionless machine, or she'd surely cry.

"I call it our $50,000 lawn ornament," she said.

U.N. Climate Summit Leaves Large Carbon Footprint - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

Each foreign leader in town has a convoy of vehicles. Some of them, like President Obama's motorcade, are 20-to-30 vehicles in length. It's so long - it seems that when the front of it reaches the U.N., the back end is still back at his hotel.

The Reference Frame: Pictures from the anti-Obama rally in D.C.

By the way, there was a climate meeting somewhere in the New York City today. Its purpose was for Prof Václav Klaus to teach his students, other politicians, something about the society, economics, politics, and their interactions with science, taking the global warming hoax as the main example.