11/14/09 - Gov. Don Carcieri this week signed modified legislation that would allow Deepwater Wind to install up to eight wind turbines in state waters south of Block Island capable of generating 12 megawatts of electricity operating at 40 percent efficiency.
An earlier version of the legislation limited the proposed farm’s output to 10 megawatts, creating a stumbling block in contract negotiations between Deepwater and National Grid. Grid argued that the proposed electricity price, based on a six-turbine farm with a 10-mw output, was unreasonably high at 30.7 cents per kilowatt-hour. With eight turbines, Deepwater says it can bring the price down to 20 cents per kWh. The two entities are expected to return to the negotiation table.
| 5 
| 
| 
fatal accident with vulture on a windmill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9srPoOU6_Z4&feature=autofb
The prop turbine in this video is not even spinning at full speed. It is spinning at 12 rotations per minute. At full speed it will spin at 20 rotations per minute making this wind turbine even more dangerous to anything that happens to fly by. This is why each year, millions of birds and bats are killed by prop turbines.
Fraud is commonly used in the permitting process. I recently came across this fraudulent statement used by the wind industry in the Final Environmental Impact Report for the PDV Wind Project in Kern County, CA ………….“Scientific literature also suggests that diurnal vultures, such as the California condor, are not at substantial risk for collisions with wind turbines.”
The scientific community is very aware that each year thousands of vultures of every type are slaughtered by prop wind turbines. The numbers of dead vultures worldwide indicates that these slow flying gliders are not at all able to “skillfully” avoid the 200 mph tip speed a prop wind turbine as claimed in the Final PDV EIR. This video clearly demonstrates the danger prop wind turbines are to all birds, especially the California Condor.
Kern County recently gave the wind industry a permit to construct the large PDV prop wind turbine farm in condor habitat. A decision on another large prop wind farm, the Alta Oak Wind Project, will be given in November 09. It too will be located in condor habitat.
The public is not aware that there are alternative wind turbine designs available that do not slaughter our precious wildlife and they also produce more energy. One of them is produced by Environmental Technologies LLC. If the corrupt entities of Wall Street, Washington, and our courts were not protecting this industry, this terrible problem would already be resolved.
Prop turbines are all about functional obsolescence, planned obsolescence, and most of all greed. The outdated technology of the prop wind turbine needs to be exposed for the fraud it represents to the green energy movement.
BUYER BEWARE of this company, Deepwater Wind, is UPC/First Wind.
They used to be IVPC , the Italian company now being investigated for collecting subsidies for non performing and underperforming wind plants and mafia connections. See news article in Sunday's Boston Herald: Ex-partner of Boston wind exec charged - Italians nab soccer club president in energy fraud:
http://www.bostonherald.com/business/general/view.bg?articleid=1212055