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WindAction Latest Posts- Chestnut Solar withdraws application amid opposition in Marion County May 21, 2024Chestnut Solar's decision to withdraw their application follows stiff opposition from local residents and community groups, who have voiced concerns about the potential environmental impact, health risks and property devaluation associated with the project. Chestnut Solar officially withdrew its application for a proposed solar project on May 16, 2024 following a blistering Ohio Power Siting Board […]
- Wind turbine makers halt race for size to focus on cost, delivery May 17, 2024The hunger for larger turbines led to some developers bidding projects based on turbines in early development stages, which can lead to offtake awards that are at higher risk of abandonment by awardees, a spokesperson for Danish turbine supplier Vestas told Reuters Events. Vestas plans to focus on its 15 MW offshore wind turbine. This size […]
Eureka Springs Independent- The Coffee Table May 15, 2024Missing Mom and Pop I miss Mom and Pop stores. Ordering online has its advantages—you can order anything from the comfort of your couch. But if your order doesn’t work out, recourse is questionable. I once searched the internet for the world’s most comfortable panties. I researched, read reviews, and paid for the best underpants on the […]Cara Sroges
- Hall Closets May 15, 2024“Engineer blowin’ the whistle loud and long. Can’t stop a train, you gotta let it roll on.” Chuck Berry After several daze of much-needed rainfall here in NWA, the clouds cleared up just in time for a beautiful Mothers’ Day weekend fulla college baseball at Baum Walker Stadium. Fresh on the heels of the first […]Scot Halsell
- HavingREELFun May 15, 2024Right now is when you need to be out there. Great reports on Table Rock, Beaver Lake, all rivers, and hotspots at the farm ponds for slab bream and sunfish, crappie, catfish, white bass and striper, walleye, and spoonbill. On Mother’s Day weekend Brandy and Johnny Bates were here. Johnny’s in the picture with a 24+-in. Brown trout […]Lisa Mullins
- The Dirt on Nicky May 15, 2024Large and furry Back when some of us spoke proto-Indo-European, we called it “moldus” because the leaves were soft. Millennia went by in a flash and folks who did not like Ds started calling it “mollis.” By the time Chaucer was a frisky lad, he would known it as “moleyne,” and in my garden I […]Nicky Boyette
National Wind Watch: Wind Energy News- Seabed ‘geohazard’ glauconite adds crushing risk to giant US offshore wind farm plans May 21, 2024Part of Iberdrola-controlled Avangrid’s uncontracted 2.2GW New England Wind project could face added construction risk from a little-known seabed mineral glauconite that can interfere with and even prevent monopile foundation installation, the developer confirmed to Recharge. Glauconite is a green-coloured mineral in the mica group found in seabed strata throughout the Northeast Atlantic coastline that […]
- ‘Voiceless’ residents in whisky country rage against wind farm May 19, 2024Two of Scotland’s richest men are on opposite sides of a row over the future of the Cabrach. They have “the energy to change your world”, boast the developers behind one of the UK’s largest onshore wind farms, but in the beautiful corner of the Grampian mountains where the huge turbines will be sited, no […]
- Company taking stock over future of Armadale wind farm plan May 19, 2024Brookfield Renewable have not lost interest in going ahead with a wind farm in the north Sutherland village of Armadale. The Canadian-based green energy corporation earlier this month dropped its bid to win planning consent to build nine turbines there. But it has told the local protest group that it is now taking stock “to […]
STOP THESE THINGS- Real Environmentalists Back Safe, Reliable & Affordable Nuclear Power May 21, 2024The faux environmentalist is easy to spot: he loves industrial wind power and couldn’t care less about the environmental destruction it causes. Faced with the rampant slaughter of birds and bats, he initially denies the evidence and then pushes the moral equivalence button, claiming that more birds are killed by cats, cars and skyscrapers. Ignoring […]stopthesethings
- Poverty Trap: Wind & Solar Obsession Delivers (Perfectly Avoidable) Economic Disaster May 20, 2024The staggering cost of carpeting the countryside with forests of wind turbines and seas of solar panels are ultimately borne by you: the unwitting taxpayer and power consumer. There is no commercial value in wind and solar power because there is no demand for electricity that can’t be delivered as and when consumers need it. […]stopthesethings
- ‘Green’ Hydrogen Scam: Renewables Rent-Seekers’ Latest Wealth Transfer Effort May 19, 2024At the end of every massive wind and solar subsidy rainbow, you’ll find a rent-seeking, crony capitalist salivating at the opportunity to cash in, at your expense. They’re called ‘rent-seekers’ for good reason: Rent-seeking is an economic concept that occurs when an entity seeks to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity. An example […]stopthesethings
- Crony Capitalists Reckon ‘Green’ Energy Too Expensive to Make ‘Green’ Hydrogen May 18, 2024The myth of producing ‘green’ hydrogen using nothing but wind and solar is yet another effort by crony capitalists to separate taxpayers from their money. If ‘green’ hydrogen was economically feasible, then entrepreneurs would be throwing every penny they could muster at something with so much (apparent) promise. The fact that their first port of […]stopthesethings