What a beauty!
This is across the street from me in rural Ellsworth. It didn’t look like this last week!
Tag: Wind turbine
Another heavy leaker
Actually they are everywhere.
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Not so Green
By: Diane Benjamin Know what that dark spot is? Long time readers will: OIL. This turbine is east of the Leroy-Lexington blacktop just south of Route 9. Usually they keep the ones along busy roads clean, the ones with less traffic going by are worse. Even Green technology needs oil. I wonder if AOC knows? […]
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Pantagraph: Facts matter
By: Diane Benjamin Today the local rag has a story extolling the greatness of the Heartland Turbine. Maybe they got their info from Heartland, maybe they shouldn’t have. Their story says 23,000 Megawatts have been generated – in 5 years. That’s 4,600 MW a year. Now convert that to Kilowatt hours so their story and […]
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Turbine blade failure by Ellsworth
By: Diane Benjamin A blade fell off a turbine east of Ellsworth over a week ago. A source told me the IMO bearings are defective which caused the washer to overheat and then detach the blade. I do not know how far the blade fell from tower, but I do know it made A LOT […]
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Heartland Wind Turbine update: Saving money?
by: Diane Benjamin Original construction costs are in this post: This post will update the information from last year. The turbine was broke for all of October 2013 and March 2014. It was broke for part of September and November 2013 and February 2014. Note the higher Cost per KWH during those months. Looking […]
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Heartland’s wind turbine dies again
by: Diane Benjamin Another teachable moment is happening at Heartland. I wonder if the environmental students are learning it. I was contacted by one of the MANY people I rely on for information that the wind turbine at Heartland is out of commission again. It was down last year too. (http://blnnews.com/2013/10/31/the-heartland-wind-turbine-died/) I sent Heartland Community […]
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The Heartland Wind Turbine died
by: Diane Benjamin Date of death: September 18, 2013 Date it may rise from the dead: November 11, 2013 (at least some time that week) The College (taxpayers) will not incur any costs to fix it. This information was obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. There is a little more to this story however. […]
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Heartland Community College – Home of NO Transparency
by Diane Benjamin Heartland Community College is a public institution funded by taxpayers. They are accountable to taxpayers for how OUR money is spent. Ideology should have NO ROLE in education, but it does at Heartland. The college pushes “Green” technology at any expense and with total disregard to the people paying the bills. See […]
