Port board OKs study of wind turbine possibilities2 consultants to survey sites along Maumee Bay
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The practicality and ecological consequences of erecting a wind turbine on the Maumee Bay shore will be the subject of a study for which the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority board of directors yesterday approved hiring two consultants.
The port board also took a procedural step that will allow a local preservation group to assume ownership of the Toledo Harbor Lighthouse.
Green Energy Ohio of Columbus and AWS Truewind of Albany, N.Y., are to study the winds along the shoreline of Maumee Bay and the potential impact an electricity-generating turbine might have on nearby bat and bird populations.
Plans to erect a wind-test tower as a preliminary step aroused "significant resistance" from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and various environmental activist groups, according to a port authority staff report.
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Port board OKs study of wind turbine possibilities
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Walker
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mellotron
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Plans to erect a wind-test tower as a preliminary step aroused "significant resistance" from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and various environmental activist groups, according to a port authority staff report.
Does this sound like "cut off your nose to spite your face" to anyone else? Especially in a part of the state with a nuclear power plant, you might think any way to shift the source of their energy is a positive...
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Brewmaster
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Sadly, this is the irrational attitude of many environmentalists. Coal and gas produce air pollutants, nuclear produces toxic waste, wind kills birds, solar produces waste in manufacturing. I assume they're living off of the grid. :roll:
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gramarye
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Actually, nuclear power plants produce significantly less pollution than traditional coal-fired ones.
This is one of the reasons the alternative-energy movement has never become a viable political force. While a majority of the country sees alternative energy as an issue and would like to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, that majority coalition is actually fragmented into a sizable number of smaller coalitions. Meanwhile, the faction supporting the status quo may be a minority, but it's a generally unified one, larger than any individual faction of the movement for alternative energy.
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Brewmaster
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They do produce significantly less pollution than coal fired ones. In fact, they produce no air pollution. I was just referring to the spent nuclear fuel that nobody knows what to do with right now. Politicians have been trying to use Yucca Mountain in Nevada for years and years, but NIMBY-ism (not in my backyard) and environmentalists have prevented any nuke plants from sending their waste there for storage. As a result, plants have been storing thier waste on site in thier spent fuel pools.
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Walker
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Grants from state available for wind-turbine projects
Monday, February 12, 2007
Ohio officials have made $5 million worth of grants available for projects that would create electricity from wind turbines.
Incentives, based on the amount of electricity a project creates, are available to projects that begin operations before 2009.
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twistofreality
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The full article wouldn't load for me at the time of this posting, but there seems to be a bit more serious thought being put into the viability of wind-based energy. (You should all be proud that I resisted my initial urge to waste your time with some "changes in the wind" joke.) Here's an article about a "substantial wind resource off the mid-Atlantic coast":
ScienceDaily - Researchers Find Substantial Wind Resource Off Mid-Atlantic Coast
Good stuff!
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