Ron’s Log http://ronslog.typepad.com January 21, 2005 New Windmill Proposal Energy Unlimited Inc. has proposed the construction of 8 new 340-foot windmills just west of Desert Hot Springs. 340-f***-feet! Wow! I don't know the height of the tallest existing windmills here, but they aren't anywhere close to that big. Naturally, Energy Unlimited Inc. has requested permission to proceed without an Environmental Impact Report because, I guess, that's just what they do. It's like in Boston where the developers know they won't be allowed to build anything taller than 25 or 30-stories, but they still propose 90-story monsters only to negotiate them down to 30-stories. The Desert Sun article says these big new wind turbines will generate 1.5 kilowatts, but Energy Unlimiteds own website says their turbines generate from 65 kilowatts to 1 megawatt. There is also this other website offered by a company with an identical name but it only promotes sawdust burners and makes no mention of wind turbines. Whadda ya think? Just poor website design, or poor legal advice? Filed under Coachella Valley | permalink | January 21, 2005 at 11:27 AM

COMMENTS: Hi Ron, Here in Ontario, Canada, we have 10 huge windmills of total capacity 15 MW. Our weak winds (average yearly speed is only 15 km/h, 9 mi/h) would be able to rotate them less than 10% of the time, so they are rotated electrically, by consuming power from the public grid. The effect is excellent: the mills are rotating approx. 95% of the time. They presumably generate 30% of their total capacity. That fake "green energy" is being sold on the open market through "green energy dealers" like, for example, Green Tags Ontario. The naive public buys some of it, and the government institutions are obligated to buy the rest, what greatly improves the statistics of money spent on protecting the environment. A few weeks ago the government of the Province of Ontario approved plans for building five farms of such fake windmills of the total (equally fake) capacity 354.6 MW. All that should keep the naive public happy and the politicians re-elected. The Fenner Wind Farm in Fenner, NY, "operates such successful way" since 2001. The monstrous 130 mills (3.5 MW each) planned for the Nantucket Sound will have to be powered electrically too, in order to be able to rotate more than 10% of the time in a year period. The typical winds in that area can not produce even 1% of the planned output from that farm. It is very likely that the 1.5MW mills of Energy Unlimited Inc planned for California, will be consuming electricity instead of generating it. The generous subsidies will cover all the costs with a decent profit margin. The winds in your area are barely strong enough to achieve 15% efficiency from much smaller and, therefore, more efficient 50 to 200kW (0.05 to 0.2MW) existing turbines! Best regards, Eugene (Ph.D.) from Ontario. Posted by: eugene at February 7, 2005 01:31 PM ********** If you've got any links to supporting information for what you're saying, I'd love to go read more. Here in the Coachella Valley, where the windmills are easily visible from anywhere, they stand pretty still when there's no wind. I've no idea what sort of subsidies the Canadian government might provide, but I think in the U.S., the tax breaks are the only substantial subsidy...unless you count the bargain basement BLM land rent. Posted by: Ron's Log at February 7, 2005 06:12 PM ********** Hi Ron; A web page providing the truth about Canadian electrically powered windmills (and probably the American ones too) would not be allowed to last even 5 minutes. At the present, you can get the best supporting information when you see them rotating at their regular “production speed” at low winds, even below 5 km/h (3 mi/h). This “phenomenon” has been the subject of my (private) research for the last three years and the evidence is overwhelming. I hope, some day it can be put on a web page. Most of the environmental organizations, including Sierra Club, David Suzuki Foundation and Greenpeace (both: Canada and U.S.), know about this “miracle”. Hundreds, if not thousands of media reporters also know about it and would like to publicize the fraud. All political opposition parties are fully aware of the fraud and wait for the chance to use it against the governing establishment. However, all of them are ordered to keep quiet, as it is in THE NATIONAL INTEREST to keep the fraud going, even expanding. To those in power, it does not matter that the fraud is at a horrendous expense to the ordinary taxpayers and the environment: the real and basic elements of the nation. The biggest monetary profits of the North American huge wind farms are from the write-offs of the taxes owned by those big companies from other businesses, as clearly and in detail Glenn Schleede of EMPA Inc., Reston, VA, summarized it in his numerous recent publications. But, even Mr. Schleede was not aware (until very recently) that in order for the scheme to work, those big (and especially monstrous) mills have to be ROTATED BY ELECTRIC POWER from the public grid and, therefore, DO NOT PRODUCE ANY ELECTRICITY. Winds in the continental USA (except for Alaska) are far too weak to power (or even just to rotate idling) the windmills that would be productive only in the northern regions of the North Sea. Selling large numbers of fake mills brings also a huge profit and the pressure on the politicians from the lobbying groups is, so far, irresistible. In this context, the 1.8 cent/kWh subsidy and the profit from selling (through "green energy dealers") at a premium rate the “dirty energy” as (falsely) declared production of “green energy” (read: “DIRTY ENERGY LAUNDERING”) are just some side profits for the fake windmills establishment. The tremendous waste of materials, energy and other resources for the production of those fake mills, the blocking effect on the development of real green energy production, the destruction of vast land areas at the wind farm sites, the ruined lives of the farm’s neighbors and so on and on, are nothing compared to the prospective devastating crush of the young generation’s (abused to the extreme) enthusiasm to protect the nature environment. So, may be, let’s keep quiet about the fraud? Best regards, Eugene (Ph.D.) from Ontario, Canada. Posted by: Eugene at February 7, 2005 10:24 PM

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