People pack wind farm forum in Yarmouth (job posting :-) )

Cape Cod Times ^ | 12/8/2004 | Leaning

[worldclass]

"This is citizen participation tonight, and I'm one of them," he (Romney) said, repeating his staunch opposition to Cape Wind Associates' proposal for a wind farm on Horseshoe Shoal.

"I've seen wind farms, and they are not pretty. If we want them in Massachusetts, we'll build them, but not here on Nantucket Sound," Romney said at a wind farm hearing at Mattacheese Middle School on Higgins Crowell Road.

[worldclass]

OK, Mitt, so who's backyard will you build them in if not the rich, liberal's yard in Nantucket?

Job posting:

One or several individuals to burn down rich, liberal homes on Nantucket to make way for a wind farm that will prevent Global Warming, which of course would bury Nantucket in 100 feet of sea water.

Apply to:

www.hypocrites.org

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

How about something with a smaller footprint, like a nuclear plant?

[Semper Paratus]

They served beans before the 'Wind Farm' meeting?

[beyond the sea]

People pack wind farm forum in Yarmouth

This is certainly "Breaking Wind" news.

[escapefromboston]

I hope they build those wind farms on the cape now. Even if they don't work I still hope they build them.

[Red Badger]

Get rid of all that hot air coming from the Kennedy compound and the wind farm people won't have a reason to build there......

[Izzy Dunne]

If we want them in Massachusetts, we'll build them, but not here on Nantucket Sound,"

Maybe they could put them in hangars underground, so they wouldn't appear so "ugly"...

[Red Badger]

I've seen wind farms, and they are not pretty.

I've seen wind bags, and they are not pretty......

[valkyrieanne]

What hypocrites. They don't want fossil fuel; they don't want nuclear; they don't want liquefied natural gas tankers pulling into their harbors. They're probably all Voluntary Human Extinctionists, and I think they should Go First.

[Fierce Allegiance]

NIMBY RINO.

[1Old Pro]

Yeah, like I really believe what Massachusetts POLS say about anything. They really did a great job on the BIG DIG.

[mrsmith]

"We can't have the soiree that night Aunt Julia. We have to send all our servants down to the citizen participation hearing on those ghastly wind farms. This is America and our voices need to be heard, whatever the cost!"

[ProudVet77]

OK, here's the deal. Nantucket used to get power from it's own diesel powered generators. They were noisy and smelly. Now they get power from Cape Cod via an underwater cable, and the power is generated along the Cape Cod Canal. That power plan just pollutes the air very far away from Nantucket.
So I say if Nantucket doesn't want the wind generators, cut them loose from the Cape Cod grid. Cut the cable, and let them solve their own energy problems. Same for Martha's Vineyard which also gets power from the same plant.

[dasboot]

Rueters News Service...........Amsterdam, June 8, 1566.

Citizens Protest Windmills: "Scar Landscape", Tell King.

[massgopguy]

There won't be a Wind Farm because Duke Energy, which gives heavily to the DNC, owns the Northeast and Maritimes Pipeline and the Koch family, of which 'Dubya's sister is a member and owns Oxbow Groups gas fired eletrical plants donates heavily to the RNC. So, what was that Kerry said about special interest groups that find a home in the Bush White House getting hit in the rear on the way out?

[balk]

Windfarms are incapable of supplying "base power".

1 Windmill generates 1 to 3 megawatts (depending on the wind).

1 Reactor generates 1000 megawatts (they vary: Link).

1000 Windmills = 1 Reactor (most plants have several reactors)

The Cape Wind project is as follows: "The wind park will consist of 130 wind turbines, with a total maximum output of 420 megawatts." Cape Wind Link

A spit in the bucket IMHO. Not worth the damage to the fishing industry, tourism industry, and bird migration.

Unless we pave the earth in windfarms...

[worldclass]

Whether wind farms are useful is irrelevant. Liberals constantly attack BIG OIL and NUCLEAR PLANTS. They constantly attack the AUTO INDUSTRY for polluting (while they drive the SUVs). In short, they attack every major source of energy.

Let them suck wind for awhile. But I do like the other poster who said cut the power to the region and let them find their own power. The bleedin' heart hypocrites deserve it. And drown the closet liberal Romney in the sound while they cut the cord.

[FreedomCalls]

"I've seen wind farms, and they are not pretty. If we want them in Massachusetts, we'll build them, but not here on Nantucket Sound,"

So he would rather build them where it's not very windy rather than in a place where you can pretty much guarantee a steady wind (which is why the sailing set likes it there). He's not very bright is he? A wind farm is not like any other power plant in that it can be built anywhere, it has to be built where there is a lot of wind -- which usually means on mountain tops, the edges of deserts, or on the coast. And the last time I looked there were not many mountains or deserts in Massachusetts.

[AnalogReigns]

There once were rich folks from Nantucket

Liberals with cash by the bucket

they said "alternative power" wasn't hard,

just NOT IN MY BACK YARD!

as for the clean windpower offshore, it went nowhere

[Steve_Seattle]

When Bush announced his energy policy during his first term, a cartoonist depicted a suburban landscape in which every home had an oil rig in its back yard. It seems that the scenario of a landscape littered with mini-powerplants is more likely with the "green" technology proposed by the wind-power advocates. These wind-farms require dozens and even hundreds of power generators spread over a large area.