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• Patten_Pete

  Grantsville. While Rome burns in $14 trillion debt.

• Patten_Pete

  Grantsville. While Rome burns in $14 trillion debt.

• Anonymous

  Offshore wind.  Oil and coal companies will hate it. 

  Oil is an addiction and gives money to dictators and corrupt kinds. 

  Coal puts mercury in fish, cancer agents in the air, pollutants in streams, and has blow the tops of hundreds of Appalachian mountains.

• Anonymous

  Offshore wind.  Oil and coal companies will hate it. 

  Oil is an addiction and gives money to dictators and corrupt kinds. 

  Coal puts mercury in fish, cancer agents in the air, pollutants in streams, and has blow the tops of hundreds of Appalachian mountains.

• Anonymous

  The definition of insanity is to do the same things over
  & over & then expect different results. Spending more & more
  & more borrowed gubmint money will not change the reality that the wind energy industry
  is corrupt & bankrupt. Wind energy is not a cost effective energy source. It
  would have been wiser to spend the money on synthetic gasoline research. Jus’
  sayin’. Educate thyself http://www.wind-watch.org

• Anonymous

  The definition of insanity is to do the same things over
  & over & then expect different results. Spending more & more
  & more borrowed gubmint money will not change the reality that the wind energy industry
  is corrupt & bankrupt. Wind energy is not a cost effective energy source. It
  would have been wiser to spend the money on synthetic gasoline research. Jus’
  sayin’. Educate thyself http://www.wind-watch.org

• Anonymous

  Who else can afford one of these fantasy power producing machines than a University, School system, or, some other taxpayer funded organization. Take a look at how well UMPI has done with theirs. I will say though, no matter how much of a farce wind power is, Way, way, way,  off shore is better than on any of the land of Maine.

• Anonymous

  Who else can afford one of these fantasy power producing machines than a University, School system, or, some other taxpayer funded organization. Take a look at how well UMPI has done with theirs. I will say though, no matter how much of a farce wind power is, Way, way, way,  off shore is better than on any of the land of Maine.

• Anonymous

  Hurricanes stop wind turbines…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VXD-6GMio

• Anonymous

  Hurricanes stop wind turbines…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VXD-6GMio

• Anonymous

  Hurricanes stop wind turbines…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6VXD-6GMio

• http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OA4CY7VEIB2S453LCNHIVU5DMQ Joe Johnson

  I like how all the people complaining about spending strongly support tax cuts for the rich and money to big oil and of course wars. Bill clinton and democrat balanced the budget. George bush a Republican spent money like crazy. I didn’t hear any tea party screaming and yelling about spending when bush was in power.

• Anonymous

  Here’s what really happens:

  “He said the turbines use software that shuts them down in winds above 111 km/h. Knapen said the angle of the turbine blades are adjusted in high winds to prevent them from being damaged.

  Shear Wind Inc.’s 27-turbine wind farm east of New Glasgow also weathered Irene without incident, said Ian Tillard, chief operating officer with the Bedford-based firm. It produces 62 megawatts of electricity for sale to NSP.”Everything is hunky-dory,” he said in an interview Monday.Tillard said the farm’s Enercon turbines are programmed to shut down in high wind”

  Shut down turbines = no power produced!

• Anonymous

  I am definitely no fan of terrestrial wind energy attempts, but I have to say that everything Dr. D touches seems to turn to gold. This might be  a very good thing for the school and the area.

• Penny Gray

  Forgive me for being dense, but if this grant “will allow the facility to purchase robotics equipment so new and advanced that it doesn’t exist yet”, according to Habib Dagher, director of the wood composites center, what the hell is Habib Dagher purchasing with this grant?  

• Penny Gray

  Forgive me for being dense, but if this grant “will allow the facility to purchase robotics equipment so new and advanced that it doesn’t exist yet”, according to Habib Dagher, director of the wood composites center, what the hell is Habib Dagher purchasing with this grant?  

• Anonymous

  Wind Power Is Dying
  Posted by Tait Trussell Bio ↓ on Aug 28th, 2011″While the U.S. is dumping billions of dollars into wind farms and onshore and offshore wind turbines, this energy source is being cast aside as a failure elsewhere in the world.”
  “Government’s obsession with wind turbines is one of the greatest blunders of our time.”http://frontpagemag.com/2011/08/28/wind-power-is-dying/

• Anonymous

  Go for it, good luck.

• Anonymous

  an outside firm will be designing and building the robotics to Dr. Dagher’s specification.  It it that hard to comprehend?

• Anonymous

  The only thing Dr. D. touches is taxpayer grants.  Taxpayers paying for redundant research into a farce at the time we have $14.5 trillion debt.  Seems like a hog feeding at the tax dollar trough to me!

• Anonymous

  The only thing Dr. D. touches is taxpayer grants.  Taxpayers paying for redundant research into a farce at the time we have $14.5 trillion debt.  Seems like a hog feeding at the tax dollar trough to me!

• Anonymous

  The only thing Dr. D. touches is taxpayer grants.  Taxpayers paying for redundant research into a farce at the time we have $14.5 trillion debt.  Seems like a hog feeding at the tax dollar trough to me!

• Anonymous

  Blow wind Blow…

• Penny Gray

  Is the outside firm from China?

• Anonymous

  Your’s is just a sarcastic opinion with no basis in fact.  I am a strong critic of wind power because I don’t believe in wasting taxpayer money on something that doesn’t work even 30% of the time and that would never happen with private investment alone.  I am against heinous mandates that will inevitably force higher electricity costs. 

  I believe in balanced budgets; Bill Clinton had it right and was blessed with a relatively healthy economy.  I believe we need to get back to the taxation levels of his era, meaning repealing the Bush era tax cuts.  Big oil should not get subsidies but neither should it be demonized as has become the fancy of so many people, as energy dense fuels are the foundation of our economy and our lifestyle.  Finally, I have been anti-war and a critic of wasteful Pentagon spending for my entire life.

• Anonymous

  UMaine getting millions more in taxpayer money— why am I not surprised

  We need an all new congressional delegation, and the ones that go need to forgo any pension

  .