Pleased to be a member, I am a semi-retired Electric Utility Chief Mechanical Engineer so I should know a thing or two..and this whole wind thing is a con that...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Jul 26, 2004 4:20 pm
... It's probably significant that Enron was heavily involved in commercial wind development. GE took over that part of their business. ~~Eric...
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mark duchamp
portavozacec
Jul 26, 2004 11:20 pm
Hi Frank, My interest is in birds and landscapes, but I´ve been looking at all sides of windpower for 3 years now. I published a number of articles here:...
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Frank Rogan
nablatwo
Jul 26, 2004 11:36 pm
Mark, CCGT stands for Combined Cycle Gas Turbines. The normal gas-turbine exhaust heat is utilized to heat water to produce steam for an additional (usually...
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CMlawton3@...
catharinelawton
Jul 26, 2004 11:44 pm
Yes, and about GE. . . It would be interesting to investigate GE's accounting, which I suspect may be more Enron-esque than has been disclosed at this time....
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mark duchamp
portavozacec
Jul 26, 2004 11:53 pm
My point was: suppose 10% penetration of the market by windpower. Fossil fuel plants that are being temporarily displaced by windpower when the wind blows MUST...
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Frank Rogan
nablatwo
Jul 27, 2004 12:41 am
Mark, The ideal spinning reserve is hydro-electric power which is available instantaneously, gas-turbines (non-combined cycle) can be brought on line in a...
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Frank Rogan
nablatwo
Jul 27, 2004 12:54 am
Cathy, GE is a business and as such will take advantage of legal opportunities (they probably bought the enron wind for pennies on the dollar...that may...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Jul 27, 2004 3:11 am
Angela Kelly sent out an interesting paper today by Robert J Bass and Peter Wilmot of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough...
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mark duchamp
portavozacec
Jul 28, 2004 3:19 pm
Thank you Eric. Quite interesting statistics. But this only addresses the low load factor of windpower (25% in the UK, 18% in Denmark, down to 8% in some...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Jul 28, 2004 8:25 pm
I found the papers interesting because they point out that the more efficient CCGT plants are unable to respond quickly enough to the fluctuations of...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Jul 28, 2004 8:33 pm
... It has been noted that Denmark's famous "penetration" of 20% is more like 1% of the international grids they are part of. The western Denmark transmission...
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Frank Rogan
nablatwo
Jul 29, 2004 1:18 am
Lets understand that "spinning reserve" resources are pre-determined and that the variations due to wind reliability would probably be minor. The grid responds...
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Jonathan Linowes
linowes
Jul 29, 2004 1:41 am
Hello, can anyone tell me if anything is being done at the Federal level to educate and increase awareness of the problems, limitations, and false hype about...
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truth_about_wind@yaho...
Jul 29, 2004 2:27 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the truth_about_wind group. File :...
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Frank Rogan
nablatwo
Jul 29, 2004 2:30 am
I just posted a paper to get you going. The author has a newer edition with more detail. I do not believe there are any negative elements in the government...
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CMlawton3@...
catharinelawton
Jul 29, 2004 1:42 pm
Glenn Schleede has written a number of excellent papers on the subject of wind energy, its problems, and that it will not make a meaningful contribution to the...
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search4power21
Jul 29, 2004 3:37 pm
... to educate and increase awareness of the problems, limitations, and false hype about wind power as the great pancea for our national energy supply? is...
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rose
RKCattle@...
Jul 30, 2004 6:59 pm
Jonathan, As part of two groups, Protect the Flint Hills, and Tallgrass Ranchers, we are working hard to educate local, state and Federal legislators...
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Jonathan Linowes
linowes
Jul 31, 2004 1:30 pm
Hello, This is from another group I belong to. Perhaps some of you experts should submit a proposal to speak at this conference (I'm -sure- they'd appreciate a...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Jul 31, 2004 8:24 pm
Unfortunately, in our pretend democracy federal lawmakers have their own agendas that are rarely connected to the concerns of most of the citizens back home....
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centaurus250
Nov 20, 2004 9:09 am
We invite you to join the free World Science news list! To subscribe for free, just send an email to: news@... (that's .NET, not .COM!) and type...
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Dain Trafton
veratrafton
Dec 12, 2004 6:12 pm
Greetings! We are not certain what the FAA rules are for the warning lights on wind towers. The proposal we are opposing will be on mountain ridges above 2,700...
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Alan Pollom
Apollom@...
Dec 13, 2004 3:16 pm
The following link will take you to a page with many additional links to FAA lighting information. http://harvee.org/pipermail/nelpag/2001/000120.html ... ...
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Eric Rosenbloom
kerberos05
Dec 13, 2004 4:09 pm
I would assume that if the top of the tower must be lit by flashing lights (white in the day, red at night, it appears) then so too must the tips of the rotor...
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stargazer
lake49417
Dec 13, 2004 10:06 pm
The FAA has specific instructions on wind turbine lighting. Copy this url into your browser address space. http://www.faa.gov/ats/ata/ai/AC70_7460_1K.pdf It...
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Dain Trafton
veratrafton
Dec 15, 2004 1:55 am
I want to thank all who responded so quickly to my inquiry about the FAA's regulations governing the lighting of wind turbines. So far, nothing specifically...
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mark duchamp
portavozacec
Dec 15, 2004 3:05 am
Flaws in bird collision models: www.iberica2000.org/Es/Articulo.asp?Id=2030 ( see objection Nº 1.0 ) Cheers Mark Mark Duchamp Windfarm/Bird Research Manager ...
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Dain Trafton
veratrafton
Dec 19, 2004 4:09 pm
Greetings! When we are talking with people about windpower, there are often questions about Denmark, it being touted by the industry as the happy pioneer of...
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Donald Bly
donalddbly
Jan 6, 2005 9:03 pm
I have no idea what the FAA will decide on lighting, but it is a known fact that strobe lighting can induce grand mall (seisures) in some people. Pilots are ...
