Destination Southwest Nova Association
Mid-Year Review
Learn about how your Destination Marketing Organization can work for you!
DSWNA
representing the
Fundy Shore & Annapolis Valley,
Yarmouth & Acadian Shores
and the South Shore
would like to remind you of the
DSWNA Mid-Year Review
on
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
at 1:30pm
at
the Visitor Information Centre at
Kejimkujik National Park and National Historic Site of Canada
Agenda items include: What's New & Exciting,
Communications, Visitor Services, Marketing, General Manager's Update, Discussion on Regional Guides
Please RSVP by Thursday, November 12th, 2009 to:
Phone: (902) 634-8844
info@dswna.com
www.destinationsouthwestnova.com
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Turbines Not as Efficient as Believed
From The Daily Observer
The reality of wind turbines is not as efficient as lobbyists would like the public to believe
Editor:
The article in the Thursday, Oct. 27 edition of The Daily Observer, 'Energy solution blowing in the wind,' is an example of alternative energy propaganda funded by wind farm companies and promoted by environmental lobby groups.
Mr. Berton has nothing but praise for Spain and its supposedly 13 per cent production figure, but what he doesn't tell you is that although the wind is free, the means to produce power from it is twice as expensive as conventional power plants. Furthermore, Spain is now realizing how inefficient wind power is.
England is on the brink of a blackout in about seven years because of its commitment to wind power. The British have spent billions of pounds installing 2,000 wind turbines that barely produce one per cent of the power needed.
They signed on to Kyoto and are legally obligated to produce 32 per cent of their power from alternative energy sources by 2010. Let's do the math: If 2,000 wind turbines barely produce one per cent of need, then 32 times 2,000 means it would take
64,000 turbines to meet the
target. Each turbine needs about four
acres, four times 64,000 amounts to 256,000 acres and England would be hard-pressed to find room for 10,000 turbines. Prime Minister Brown and his group of
environmental dreamers are in fantasy land.
They are proposing to close their coal and oil-fired power plants and eight of their nine nuclear plants are so old that they will be forced to shut down, amounting to approximately 65 per cent of their power production.
The government is now reluctantly proposing to build a new generation of nuclear
power plants, but it has
waited too long and will not have them in place before the county runs out of
power. Britain sold its world class nuclear construction company, Westinghouse, to the Japanese for a fire sale price.
Germany has installed more than 3,000 wind turbines and are in the process of building 40 more clean coal-fired plants, because they now realize how inefficient and expensive wind power is.
In Ontario, Mr. McGuinty and his group of socialist comrades are travelling down the same road, and if not stopped, WE will be looking at power shortfalls in 10 years. I suggest rather than wasting our tax dollars on wind power, we should be refurbishing or building new nuclear power plants and also clean coal power plants.
The notion that wind power can replace conventional and nuclear power production is ridiculous and just a means for extracting our tax dollars from naive political leaders by the use of alarmism.
The sad reality is there is a lot of money behind wind power promoted by environmental lobby groups, and I would love to follow that paper trail to see who is getting it.
Mack Thrasher,
Laurentian Valley
The reality of wind turbines is not as efficient as lobbyists would like the public to believe
Editor:
The article in the Thursday, Oct. 27 edition of The Daily Observer, 'Energy solution blowing in the wind,' is an example of alternative energy propaganda funded by wind farm companies and promoted by environmental lobby groups.
Mr. Berton has nothing but praise for Spain and its supposedly 13 per cent production figure, but what he doesn't tell you is that although the wind is free, the means to produce power from it is twice as expensive as conventional power plants. Furthermore, Spain is now realizing how inefficient wind power is.
England is on the brink of a blackout in about seven years because of its commitment to wind power. The British have spent billions of pounds installing 2,000 wind turbines that barely produce one per cent of the power needed.
They signed on to Kyoto and are legally obligated to produce 32 per cent of their power from alternative energy sources by 2010. Let's do the math: If 2,000 wind turbines barely produce one per cent of need, then 32 times 2,000 means it would take
64,000 turbines to meet the
target. Each turbine needs about four
acres, four times 64,000 amounts to 256,000 acres and England would be hard-pressed to find room for 10,000 turbines. Prime Minister Brown and his group of
environmental dreamers are in fantasy land.
They are proposing to close their coal and oil-fired power plants and eight of their nine nuclear plants are so old that they will be forced to shut down, amounting to approximately 65 per cent of their power production.
The government is now reluctantly proposing to build a new generation of nuclear
power plants, but it has
waited too long and will not have them in place before the county runs out of
power. Britain sold its world class nuclear construction company, Westinghouse, to the Japanese for a fire sale price.
Germany has installed more than 3,000 wind turbines and are in the process of building 40 more clean coal-fired plants, because they now realize how inefficient and expensive wind power is.
In Ontario, Mr. McGuinty and his group of socialist comrades are travelling down the same road, and if not stopped, WE will be looking at power shortfalls in 10 years. I suggest rather than wasting our tax dollars on wind power, we should be refurbishing or building new nuclear power plants and also clean coal power plants.
The notion that wind power can replace conventional and nuclear power production is ridiculous and just a means for extracting our tax dollars from naive political leaders by the use of alarmism.
The sad reality is there is a lot of money behind wind power promoted by environmental lobby groups, and I would love to follow that paper trail to see who is getting it.
Mack Thrasher,
Laurentian Valley
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