Ohio's Largest School Wind Project Goes Operational (2 x 100 kW turbines)

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ohios-largest-school-wind-project-goes-operational-61153702.html

MCGUFFEY, Ohio, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The wind turbines are spinning at the Upper Scioto Valley Schools, the largest wind power project on a K-12 Ohio school campus to date.

The school district held a public reception attended by roughly 150 community members who celebrated the commissioning of the turbines as well as the opening of the district's new Wind/Energy Academy.

Jerry Good, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland's regional representative, read a proclamation from the governor, commending the school district for its renewable energy leadership.

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The official commissioning occurred on September 8, and the wind turbines have generated three thousand kilowatt hours already, enough to power four homes for an entire month. The two 100 kW turbines were designed and manufactured by Northern Power Systems of Barre, Vermont.

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In magical PEAK Watt-talk too!!!!

You would need to be pretty dumb to not understand the scale of this thing, which is, like the rest of the wind and solar industry, tiny, unless, of course, someone is here to announce - and given the quality of some "renewables will save us" rhetoric one must concede that it is certainly possible that someone will make this argument - that, um, http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/renew_energy_consump/table1.html">83.436 = 0.514.

I'm quite sure too, that whenever the wind isn't blowing Ohio's coal smoke clouds east, or turning the big hunk of spinning metal outside the school, they let classes out, or at least turn off all the electricity.

But I can see very clearly why dumb fundies are really happy to have loud whining machines near a school, the risk of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-2m4A_6NQ"> burning flying metal notwithstanding. Lord knows the kids need extra noise. It would be terrible for the wind and solar industry if people became educated.

How much you wanna bet that all the kids in this school - not one of whom will become another Glenn Seaborg to be sure - all learn that the SI unit of energy is the home.

Maybe they can all grow up to be stupid anti-nuke journalists, the best kind of stupid anti-nuke journalists, the kind with zero comprehension of science.

Not much more to say, really, in the face of hysteria like this. I find your anti-wind comments as stupid as you find anti-nuke journalism.

I find the wind religion "journalism" as stupid as I find the IGCC "journalism."

Wind is not a particularly worthwhile form of energy.

This may come as a surprise, but squandering money on "infrastructure" that on average lasts about 15 years - this in a time of diminished resources - is not a wise idea.

In fact, many decades of "wind will save us" rhetoric has produced more complacency and denial than it has energy. Not even one exajoule of the hundred exajoules of energy produced in the United States in a year comes from wind, but the wind advocates are here to attempt to destroy the nation's largest source of climate change gas free energy because, um, they have a religion that demands everyone accept, uncritically, the statement "wind is a good and reliable form of energy."

Guess what: It isn't.

I guarantee you that the first time a vane goes through the head of a kid - and deaths from wind power are already observed even though it is a trivial form of energy - some stupid fuck will start whining about some uranium miner who died 50 years ago.

Opposition to wind energy is now international, and I am very happy to say that the nuclear industry is the industry that pioneered the standards by which wind is being measured, i.e. the standards of external costs.

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