Breaking Wind – Quick hits from the industry for September 10, 2010

Items of interest:

1-Kent Hawkins with a must read at MasterResource:

• Wind Is Not Power at All (Part I)
• Wind Is Not Power at All (Part II – Power Density)
• Wind is Not Power at All (Part III – Capacity Value)

2-Wind turbine noise issues? – “Do your homework. Ask hard questions. Demand clear answers.” – The Industrial Wind Action Group:

• Vinalhaven’s Fox Islands Wind exceeds noise limits

3-Harvard Crimson challenging wind energy!

• Wind Farms: Not So Green

4-MetalMiner – Wind Power and Solar Panel Jobs to go the Same Way as Textiles and Steel?

• Part 1
• Part 2

5-United Steel Workers think China subsidy of wind component manufacturing is unfair.  (Presumably OK if US continues to borrow money from China to subsidize US wind manufacturing.)  Solution to the issue … scrap wind energy!

• USW seeks China curbs – Renewable energy industry bolstered by hefty subsidies, union complains

6-Don’t count your chickens,

• Lesser prairie chicken may cripple Oklahoma’s wind energy industry