10 ) Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term of office. Let the Muslim Socialist regime begin!
9 ) Happy anniversary, Roe V. Wade! To celebrate I am taking up a collection to buy you a new Supreme Court justice. That Scalia guy is looking old and worn and, well, like a raging douchebag. I’m thinking about picking up something more progressive and open-minded, someone more along the lines of a Thomas or a Bader Ginsburg.
8 ) Rand Paul tells Hilary Clinton that if he’d been President during the Benghazi incident, he’d have fired her. She responded with hysterical laughter, because really, “President Rand Paul”? Yeah, right!
7 ) New Mexico considers a law that would make aborting a baby conceived by rape the crime of “evidence tampering.” If passed, the New Mexico Legislature would also have to register as sex offenders because they too will be rapists.
6 ) Yes, it IS cold enough for me. Stop asking such a stupid-ass question.
5 ) JJ Abrams is tapped to direct the next Star Wars movie and the Internet braces for three years of flame wars among fanboys bickering over how awesome/sucktacular it will be.
4 ) Chris Brown becomes a victim of “swatting,” which involves someone calling in a fake crime report to mobilize the police to a celebrity’s home. To be fair, it’s Chris Brown. He was probably doing something worthy of arrest.
3 ) Beyonce catches hell for lip-synching the National Anthem at Obama’s inauguration. Hey, hey, ease up on her. It was only a second term inauguration.
2 ) A former child actor who voiced Charlie Brown in several cartoons is arrested for stalking. Man, he really does have it bad for that little red-haired girl.
1 ) Wiccans call Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters offensive to their faith. I call it offensive to the entertainment industry.
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11) Commercial megawatt wind turbines fail expectations. Three 1.5 megawatt commercial wind turbines installed in the past three years have catastrophic gear box failures. Portsmouth High School in Rhode Island ,Princeton Municipal Power Plant ,Massachusetts and right here at Otis AFB Cape Cod.
The turbines were sold to last twenty years but only made it three years. Gearbox, Special Crane and possible blade repair up to one million. Then do it again in another three years.
Falmouth has a megawatt turbine three years old with a faulty electric switch from condensation. The turbine just hit its three year birthday .Who knows what 2013 holds for operation and maintenance.
The Falmouth megawatt turbines have become an international poster child for how not to site a commercial wind turbine .Groups in Canada and other countries site the news in Falmouth with the ongoing health issues.
The tide is turning on commercial wind .There are much better choices for renewable energy.
11a) People unable to distinguish between their personal subjective definition of what it means to “fail expectations” and an objective definition of that term.
Also, this should really be lower on the priority list. Maybe number six. This is not Spinal Tap.
The year 2013 looks like emerging commercial wind turbine events around property loss, wind turbine sprawl , noise issues and court action.
Number -6 ) Yes, it IS cold enough for me. Stop asking such a stupid-ass question.
Number 10 begs the question if millions are spent to commercial wind turbine programs with government money (our money) we will only survive as a Muslim Socialist regime ?
First, “begs the question” is used incorrectly here. When one begs the question, one is trying to prove a premise using the premise itself as evidence of its validity.
Second: the government spends lots of money on fossil fuel producers, so why not wind, along with any other energy production method?
Also: the government spends money on thousands of things that do not directly benefit a specific taxpayer. This is not socialism. Not even close.
The commercial wind industry is your basic pyramid scheme.
The money comes from a renewable energy tax on your electric bill. The money goes to run a semi quasi state agency with appointed political hacks making 6 figure salaries.
The semi quasi state agency sells a 3 million dollar turbine to Falmouth that had been in a ware house in Texas at $3500.00 per month for five years . The sale of the turbine is done through a second party construction company to the Town of Falmouth. The older gear drive turbines had been for sale for years .
The semi quasi state agency cuts a deal to give Falmouth one million in renewable energy credits up front if they buy the wind turbine .
The RECs, renewable energy credits costs much more than the current electric rate and raise the electric rates along with the renewable energy tax on our electric bills.
You do understand at three years the older gear driven turbines need major gear box work .Portsmouth RI, Otis AFB Cape Cod and Princeton MA – This now creates another cottage industry repairing three year old wind turbines that were sold to last twenty to thirty years .
The Falmouth Wind 1 turbine built in 2004 has been in operation for three years .It has an electric problem with a switch which is just the start of its operation and maintenance problems .
Mike, I know you like the idea of renewable as I do but the commercial wind industry is falling on its face .
The other day Lt Gov Murray was at Otis AFB praising the renewable energy projects and probably didn’t know the three year old Furlander 1.5 Megawatt turbine is failing or to put it the way the Air Base says it : The wind turbine has no problem but we are looking for a new gear box with a better bearing – How they twist the words
This year we’ll see these older turbines failing and more lawsuits .The public will demand answers to why so much money went into commercial wind and not other sources of renewable energy
So because Falmouth has a bad experience with their turbines, the “whole industry” is a failure? That is extremely shoddy logic.
As for your implications of vested interests, what is yours? Your name (or perhaps it’s more accurate to say, your public identity) is all over the Internet, speaking out against every turbine in existence. Someone in Massachusetts posts a turbine story, you’re there criticizing it. What’s your stake in any of these projects?
I reckon this might get a defensive response, a variation of the “How dare you question my integrity when you should be questioning theirs?” dodge, but it’s valid to question everyone’s motivations, including those who maintain they are fighting on the “right side” of an issue. Anonymous activism, especially when it turns fanatical, does not promote productive discussion, it only allows people to throw stones from behind a safe shield of anonymity.
Well, that free ride ends now for “Bill Carson.” Let’s hear a little about your true self and what your interest is, or I’ll apply, as John Scalzi puts it, the “mallet of loving correction” — which is a euphemism for, “I won’t approve any more of your responses.”
Between 2005 and 2007 there was an attempt to place a 660 Kilowatt turbine within 800 feet of my house. The semi quasi state agency produced a report for the feasibility of placing that wind turbine behind my house. I brought to the attention of the semi quasi state agency that their report had major flaws at a public meeting .The response was the U Mass engineering students were paid to do the study and it was their fault. The town dropped the wind turbine project the next week.
The semi quasi state agency had the same 1.65 Megawatt turbines at the time which like Falmouth would have switched out .
My entire life savings is all I have .My home is my investment . I feel bad for all the residents who today didn’t get a chance like I did to bring the setback issues to the publics attention.
I get no money for this . You need to put yourself in the shoes of an abutter to a commercial wind turbine . Think of it this way you go and do your military duty ,work all your life for the American Dream of home ownership and they put a 400 foot commercial wind turbine behind your house and you have to move to your basement .
For several years after 2005 I thought a commercial wind turbine was going behind my house. I know how the residents of Falmouth feel .
I guess I look at the world from a view like Franklin Roosevelt and every residential homeowner shouldn’t have to worry about their property rights .In the absence of leadership some one always steps up to the plate : Here’s the quote ”
“In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms.
The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want — which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants — everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear — which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor– anywhere in the world.”
So, long story short, a wind turbine you assumed would cause problems, that was never built, is your impetus for chiming in on every single wind turbine project in Massachusetts and demonizing them, sometimes on nothing more than the same assumption that they would be bad.
Sorry, I still can’t shake the feeling there is more to your story than that. People do not become relentless crusaders for a cause with such tepid motivation…especially since what killed the project was not its actual or even potential harm but the economic viability of the project at the original site.
Also consider the fact that your original post to this blog entry had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with ANYTHING I said. This was you grabbing a handy soapbox for you to deliver yet another anti-turbine diatribe, and who cares if I wasn’t actually talking about turbines.
This is the kind of activism that stands to harm the cause more than help it; it’s the equivalent of two guys sitting in a coffee shop talking about new movies only to be interrupted by some guy sitting next to them throwing in an unsolicited non-sequitur comment about how badly Obama is screwing up the country. It’s unwelcome, off-topic, and just makes you look like a jerk or a nut. You want to spout off on turbines, go ahead, but jeez, at least wait for the topic to come up.