Flyboy of Winthrop, ME If they put one of those noisey things out side your bedroom window how well would you like that? The noise is a big problem at Mars Hill. report abuse

Bill Randall of Winthrop, ME Dr. Jennings, in all due respect to you, I totally agree with you that wind power is part of the immediate local package to save out earth and mankind. But there are far bigger global issues to address, like our escalating population, finite resources, religion, patriotism, the "we kill them before they kill us mentality," and what seems to be the wish of so many naturally aggressive males - war and the domination of other aggressive males.report abuse

Tom Someone of Augusta, ME Bill,

I have seen you post here and on other articles today. It is easy to pick apart someone else's ideas. Got any of your own? How do you plan on 'fixing' our escalating population, for example?report abuse

kent beuchert of tampa, FL Wind power sucks. It is a bill of goods sold mainly on the basis that it will help reduce gloabal warming. I can easily prove that geothermal heat pumps will reduce greenhouse gases by amounts twice as large as those reduced by wind turbines, and, unlike wind power, it wil save consumers on their utility bills, not increase them as wind ALWAYS does. Wind is by far the worst alternative energy we have. I would invest in geothermal hot rock technology, solar towers, solar PHV, wave motion, and build nuclear long, long before wasting money on turbines that mostly produce electricity when you don't want it, at levels that can't be predicted. Denmark's experience has not been good - they have wind turbines that can produce 18% of their total electricity, but they only actually can make use of 8%, the rest they have to sell to adjoining countries, for less than the subsidies the government is paying the turbine owners. They are losing tons of money and accomplishing relatively little for the cost. Because of its unreliability
(the wind never seems to blow during peak demand
on hot summer days), wind capacity cannot replace
controllable power generators. After the greatest year of wind turbine errections in the U.S.,
the actual new wind power generated is less than 850 megawatts. Total U.S. actualwind genertion is around 2800 megawatts, of the 1 million plus megawatts available. Wind is an insignificant
contributor to our electrical grid and has done next to nothing in reducing greenhouse gases.
Those who claim that this primitive technology
is the best alternative energy are dead wrong. It is by far the worst of the alternative energies.
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