Tangential Thoughts, was [at-l] Wind Farm Proposed at DeHart Dam

[greyowl at rcn.com (greyowl@rcn.com)]

Let me get this straight.  I don't want windmills because they 
spoil the view, that I cannot see anyway because of all the air 
pollution generated by coal fired generators and automobiles 
(and as it turns out trees).

Grey Owl

---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:31:25 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
>From: Jan Leitschuh <janl2@mindspring.com> 
>Subject: Tangential Thoughts, was [at-l] Wind Farm Proposed 
at DeHart Dam  
>To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
>
>How about site-produced wind energy? 
>Enough to power the entire household? 
>"Each Mag-Wind can generate 900 to 2,000 kilowatt-hours of 
electricity a month, depending on the amount of wind."
>
>It's on the horizon:
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_05/122605EB.shtml
>
>"Turbine Company Harnesses Wind Power
>    By Margaret Allen
>    The Dallas Business Journal
>
>    Sunday 25 December 2005
>
>    High energy costs and green building initiatives could boost 
interest in the rooftop units.
>
>    Fort Worth real estate mogul Ross Perot Jr. will be among 
the first to use a new alternative energy invention from a Plano-
based company - the Mag-Wind rooftop turbine, which uses 
wind to generate electricity.
>
>    Mag-Wind Co. LLC in February will install one of its first five 
pre-production models - possibly the one nicknamed "Toto" by 
its inventor - atop the developer's Victory office building in 
downtown Dallas.
>
>    "We are allowing them to put a turbine on the Victory 
marketing center," said David Pelletier, a spokesman for 
Perot. "It will allow us an opportunity to evaluate how Mag-Wind 
works for possible use in projects down the road. Ross Perot Jr. 
wants all our people to look at green forms of energy."
>
>    The founders of privately held Mag-Wind have been 
developing the patent-pending vertical-axis turbine since 1991. 
Each Mag-Wind can generate 900 to 2,000 kilowatt-hours of 
electricity a month, depending on the amount of wind. That's 
enough to power the average household, according to Bob 
Thompson, CEO of Mag-Wind. "
>More at link.
>
>But then, it may already be too late, according to 86-yr old 
scientist James Lovelock - Why do we think we can control and 
eff with  Mother Nature, he wonders? She's been doing this alot 
longer than humans. Forget Atlas Shrugging - when Ma shrugs, 
we go flying. Head for the Arctic!:
>
>"Environment in Crisis: 'We Are Past the Point of No Return'
>    By Michael McCarthy
>    The Independent UK
>
>    Monday 16 January 2006
>
>    Thirty years ago, the scientist James Lovelock worked out 
that the Earth possessed a planetary-scale control system which 
kept the environment fit for life. He called it Gaia, and the 
theory has become widely accepted. Now, he believes 
mankind's abuse of the environment is making that mechanism 
work against us. His astonishing conclusion - that climate 
change is already insoluble, and life on Earth will never be the 
same again.
>
>    The world has already passed the point of no return for 
climate change, and civilisation as we know it is now unlikely to 
survive, according to James Lovelock, the scientist and green 
guru who conceived the idea of Gaia - the Earth which keeps 
itself fit for life.
>
>    In a profoundly pessimistic new assessment, published in 
today's Independent, Professor Lovelock suggests that efforts 
to counter global warming cannot succeed, and that, in effect, it 
is already too late.
>
>    The world and human society face disaster to a worse 
extent, and on a faster timescale, than almost anybody 
realises, he believes. He writes: " Before this century is over, 
billions of us will die, and the few breeding pairs of people that 
survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains 
tolerable." 
>More here:
>http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article338878.ece
>or here:
>http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/011606EA.shtml
>
>
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