Ha! I saw the headline and thought you were dissing on San Francisco Giants fans.... the two that are left.

I'm no artist, but the snowy backdrop should work nicely with the spray pattern left by the blenders next victim.

again, i say, how do you spell stupid. could it be voter?

"again, i say, how do you spell stupid. could it be voter?
Posted by: old white guy at May 19, 2009 4:18 PM "

No doubt in my mind owg. And they seem to be getting stupider and stupider. Just what are the econazis putting in the water supply??

I guess the saying that "cocaine is God's way of
telling you you're making too much money" needs to be emended.

Can you say nucular?

Speaking of which, Réné Monory died recently - he was the French politician who in the 70s and 80s pushed France towards nuclear power - lucky for them - I think 80% of their electricity comes from NP.

Sounds like he was an interesting guy

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/obituaries/display.var.2503002.0.rene_monory.php

Ah, the good old days of 13th century technology.

The Wind Age (1000BC - 1850AD) did not end because we ran out of wind.

What part of it does not work are people having problems with?

I say build them and let them become permanant symbols of the failure of the Church of Global Warming, each leader and environmentalist who promoted the greatest lie ever told to be buried under one.

IA:

What you call the Church of Global Warming is nothing new in the history of humanity.

It's a form of neo-paganism.

Instead of sacrificing their first-born by throwing them into a volcano, today's neo-pagans are sacrificing future humans beings to appease Gaia.

At the same time, embracing evolutionary theory exposes their hypocrisy, since their refusal to have children to save the planet means they themselves are the stop signs of evolution.

If General Electric wants to sell giant fans to the government, then G.E will get to sell them...They invested millions into Obama's election.

No matter how wasteful and ill conceived the whole idea is, only a revolution will stop this from happening.

Well, Right Honorable Terry Tory, building and selling fans is one thing, confiscating the land under eminent domain to put them on is another.

That right there, the massive land confiscation, will light the fuse of a powder keg.

And it surely will take a lot of land.

Shouldn't we be talking about these...

I want one.....for my house....and one for my car

distance between fillups........unbelievable

Shouldn't we be talking about these...

I want one.....for my house....and one for my car

distance between fillups........unbelievable

www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

I say build them and let them become permanant symbols of the failure of the Church of Global Warming, each leader and environmentalist who promoted the greatest lie ever told to be buried under one.

Posted by: Illiquid Assets at May 19, 2009 5:20 PM

LOL. Actually they should be strung up on them first.
Then buried under one.

""We have convened a small review group internally to discuss how we can avoid this in the future."

Bring doughnuts and/or KFC.

Commenter said: "Socialism kills birds. Who knew?".
...-

"Golden eagle killed by Wash. wind turbines

GOLDENDALE, Wash. —

A golden eagle was killed by a wind turbine blade at a southwest Washington wind farm, a state biologist says.

The Columbian newspaper in Vancouver, Wash., reported that it is the first known eagle fatality caused by a Washington wind project.

The 10-pound bird had a broken wing and two broken legs after the April 27 accident at Goodnoe Hills Wind Project southeast of Goldendale, said Travis Nelson, the state's lead biologist on wind power issues.

"This is certainly not the outcome that anyone who was involved in planning and permitting this operation would have wanted, especially the project owner," Nelson said. "We have convened a small review group internally to discuss how we can avoid this in the future."

Golden eagles are not listed as threatened or endangered, but federal law prohibits intentionally harming raptors.

Federal and state wildlife officials created new guidelines in April to reduce the effects on birds and wildlife from wind energy development. Environmental groups and utilities also worked on those guidelines.

They call for extensive surveys of proposed wind farms before they are permitted and a recommended 2-mile wide buffer around the nests of raptor species, including golden and bald eagles.

The dead golden eagle, a mature bird with a 6-foot wingspan, was found by a crew of URS Corp., a contractor for PacifiCorp., the Portland, Ore.-based utility that owns the Goodnoe Hills wind farm."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2254268/posts

"We have convened a small review group internally to discuss how we can avoid this in the future."

I.E......we will have the Zero and his gubermint immediately enact legislation making it ill-eagle for any bird of prey to come within 1 mile of any wind turbine.We will also recommend a wind turbine Border Patrol be established to capture,imprison,and water board any raptors violating the new law so that we can establish where they are nesting out off. Said patrol will have the Stank as its director.

Once they got rid of those ugly trees these beautiful windmills appeared

LOL,from the above post---"We have convened a small review group internally to discuss how we can avoid this in the future."---OMFG,are these people for real? What can they possibly do besides shutting down the windmills? I am evisioning a group of very sad bearded fellows along with a sprinkling of teary burlap babes debating an extremely ambitious helmet law.

A powerful piece:

http://icecap.us/images/uploads/Ration_and_Tax.pdf

Comment from the article: "For anyone interested, I’m going to write about this design on our website in the main section – but give me a few days. I think it’s a winner, suitable for rivers as well as slow tidal flows, extremely eco-friendly potential for schemes both big and small, that nobody has really spotted properly yet."

Ah, yes, rivers. Lucy, where I come from and for 300+ yrs anywhere in the world, I believe these were called DAMS! It is an item you eco-nuts have been wanting to stop.

There are trees in Scotland?

I'm no artist, but the snowy backdrop should work nicely with the spray pattern left by the blenders next victim.
Posted by: Indiana Homez at May 19, 2009 4:15 PM

I'm surprised the company putting up these things hasn't applied for an arts grant.

Giant fan kills eagle.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009237523_webeaglekilled19m.html

The Wind Age (1000BC - 1850AD) did not end because we ran out of wind.
Love that line. Illiquid assets, I hope you don't mind if I borrow it for the next time I debate environmental moonbats.

Civilization has been marked by ever increasing energy density for the energy sources that are used. I'm personally looking for a laptop battery that will have a milligram of antimatter held in suspension and slowly reacted with matter to produce an essentially unlimited supply of electricity -- good for those long pacific ocean cruises where plugins are few and inconveniently located.

I have no desire to return to the middle ages. There's nothing wrong with low power circuitry and I'm amazed at the mips/mw my laptop gets but I don't want to depend on obsolete technology.

You know, I betcha Al Gore owns stock in Daimler, and those stinkin' giant fan thingies are a clever way to subconsciously make people buy more Mercedeses...

As we speak, the wholes sale price for electricity in Ontario is 1.88 cents a KWh. I recall that a few weeks ago it was actually negative. Its amazing what economic collapse does for the price of power. Close down few steel mills and car plant and then we just don't use power any more.

At the same time Toronto Hydro is bringing in smart meters and the peak hours price for power will double to more than 10 cents a KWh. They are telling consumers that they will save money over the old pricing regime because they can save power by cooking their dinner at 2 am. I have nothing against smart meter technology, but maybe they should tie the price to the wholesale price.

Ontario got all its electricity from hydro power until the 1950's. If we keep going in the direction we're going we might be back to that scenari09o before much longer.

There was an excellent letter in the Toronto Sun from a homeowner in Hamilton who had one of McSquinty's new electric usage meters installed. The writer said his home was fully Energy Star compliant and only a few years old and his family really monitored their energy use closely and he kept records of their costs.

Even with following the guidelines of washing your clothes in the evening and keeping the heat down his electrical cost rose 10% in the year since the electric monitoring meter was installed.

Does this at all sound like the statement "We're from the governemnt and we're here to help you."

Those "smart meters"....I have noticed that here in rural Ontario the first installed were at extremely low power consumers.
I generally average 10-11 KWH/day and for years read my meter daily----they kept changing meters ans their seals----even once accused me of "stealing" electricity. The reality is on Hydro One's bills---with their delivery cost, adjustments, debt retirement charges that our cost is close to $0.20/KWH.
Meanwhile the meter readers still tour about reading meters.

This is where the tree hugger's arguement falls apart. Who will volunteer to go without power when the wind doesn't blow? We have a similar situation in Saskatchewan. I drove by one of the wind generation projects in December 2008 at -20C and every turbine was stopped. The folks running the coal fired stations say the unreliability of the wind drives them crazy and is hard on the equipment as they are continually starting and stopping to accomodate the wind. You have to wonder who falls for the economics when you need to build back up generation for every so called green option.

Please people give the system a chance!

Item:
Dupont patent runs out on old cheap, efficient Freon which by a strange coincidence is just then discovered to supposedly be the cause of upcoming "polar Ozone Hole disaster". Old Freon banned in "first world countries".
Item:
Much more expensive and less efficient patented "new Freon" now on tap. Ozone hole getting smaller. Increasing production levels of old style generic Freon in second and third world ignored.

Item:
Edison style cheap incandescent light bulbs banned because most electric energy input wasted as heat. No info provided for comparison to heat loss on poorly maintained geriatric high voltage transmission lines that deliver the power. Perhaps herd conditioning and compliance is of more importance.
Item:
New expensive long life energy efficient compact fluorescent lights containing "a small amount of mercury" introduced to save energy and the planet. Judging by the quantities of failed CF lights in the dedicated recycling bins, "long life" is a relative concept like "moral equivalence".
Item:
Research devoted to bringing new more expensive, less polluting, even more efficient and patentable electricity directly to light variants of the old Edison style bulb is moving along nicely. Three guesses which mercury containing item will be banned at the appropriate time.

It is a lot easier to fake local production of wind farms compared to nuclear power plants.

Anyone notice a pattern?

Is it possible to 'turn' the windmills with traditional power plant energy ? (generator/motor thing)

Especially when the Suzuki eco-tour bus is near by ?

Old Suzuki had a farm,

E-I-E-I-owe,

and on that farm he had some blades,

E-I-E-I-owe,

with a faint breeze here and

a faint breeze there,

here a breeze, there a breeze,

everywhere a dead bird,

Old Suzuki had a farm,

have another joint.

Hey Peter, heh heh

How about including, Obama, renewable energy subsidies, the owe in E-I-E-I, ...

OK this is my idea
Solar powered wind turbines for when the wind doesn't blow
and on the following day Wind powered solar panels for when the sun doesn't shine.