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• Anonymous

  It’s a bit amusing to read about environmentalists and their claim that they are working toward sustainability, when the policies they pursue rely upon a central government with a central bank that is the antithesis of sustainability.  Do these people not see what is happening in the primarily democratic socialist Europe with the Greece riots and now in the UK?  How is a system of debt, piled on top of debt, on top of debt, on top of debt, with no end in sight in any way shape or form sustainable?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=player_embedded

  If they want sustainability, they should all be farmers with solar power and support small, localized governments with sound money backed by actual commodities.  Of course that would they would actually have to get up at 5AM like the rest of us and work for a living……hence the unsustainable nature of their agenda.

• Anonymous

  It’s a bit amusing to read about environmentalists and their claim that they are working toward sustainability, when the policies they pursue rely upon a central government with a central bank that is the antithesis of sustainability.  Do these people not see what is happening in the primarily democratic socialist Europe with the Greece riots and now in the UK?  How is a system of debt, piled on top of debt, on top of debt, on top of debt, with no end in sight in any way shape or form sustainable?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzR3UAyXao&feature=player_embedded

  If they want sustainability, they should all be farmers with solar power and support small, localized governments with sound money backed by actual commodities.  Of course that would they would actually have to get up at 5AM like the rest of us and work for a living……hence the unsustainable nature of their agenda.

• Patten_Pete

  UMPI  prezident Donald Zillman is the driving force behind the University of Maine’s wind turbine experiment. This $2 million (and counting) debacle just reached its two year anniversary in mid-May and at the time had basically just passed its ONE YEAR electricity production goal.In other words, the turbine, as expected, was and is a miserable failure, typical of what happens when political correctness and feelgood fairy dust takes the place of emprical study and doing one’s homework.After two years, the turbine has averaged only 11% capacity. But Zillman, when asked by MPBN’s Jennifer Rooks, gave his satisfaction with the turbine “an 11 on a 1-10 scale”. Sorry, but 11% is an 11 on a 1-100 scale.Back in 2010, when it became painfully obvious that the 1,000,000 KWH annual goal would not be reached, UMPI mysteriously disappeared that goal from its website and quietly replaced it with a goal of 700,000 KWH a year, with no  explanation.Although the turbine widely missed its goal, Zillman claims it is still meeting its cost savings and CO2 emissions avoided goals. Sorry, but if electricity drops, these have to drop as they are all directly related. Something is rotten with that math.July 1st is the two year anniversary of when they started tracking electricity yet for perhaps the last 5-6 weeks, they have  completely stopped reporting production data. They promised they would be transparent and they have shattered that promise.It’s one thing to make a mistake. But not to learn from it and share this learning with Maine is criminal. Candy coating this grossly failed experiment should be a fire-able offense.The maintenance costs will now start to really take off now that the turbine is aging.

• Anonymous

  Patten_Pete – I agree with you totally.  The failed $2 million wind turbine an UMPI with it’s miniscule 11-12% actual production should have disqualified them from this award.  Now the one award they should win hands down is the Wind Power Lobby’s, “Best Total Waste of Taxpayers’ Money Award, which of course will be proudly accepted by Dr. Habibb Dagher who should be the President of the University of Montana’s School of Mining.   He’s proven to be an expert at self promotion and the of mining of Federal tax dollars!  

  Hey PP,  how about we exchange awards sometime soon?  You buy me one and hold a press conference, and a couple day later  I’ll do the same!