Sentences with phrase «against wind energy»

Very few if any of the so - called anti wind folks are against wind energy per se or green energy... we just want a planned and structured approach.

Represented wholesale utility provider in federal court dispute enforcing arbitration agreement against wind energy producer.

I want to make clear that I have nothing against wind energy, but I have a problem with utopian plans that make it MAJOR part of a global plan to reduce GHG emissions.

Are you against wind energy?

As the Independent Weekly pointed out, Droz collaborates with Koch - funded Americans For Prosperity and FreedomWorks in campaigns against wind energy.

Ms Britnell expressed no strong opinion in favour or against wind energy, simply saying we need to «get it right».

The organization states that there is a effort to denigrate and distract from the Waubra Foundation's campaign against wind energy and declares that an Independent Commission Against Corruption or Royal Commission should be struck to determine who is commencing the attack.

There are at least three former and current medical professionals who are leveraging no - longer - active or irrelevant medical credentials to lend weight to campaigns against wind energy, and are performing research without oversight.

She also has published error - filled attacks against wind energy and turbines.

Not exact matches

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

The Tories» energy minister was the subject of a furious briefing campaign today, after he came out against the construction of further wind farms.

Businesses like steady costs, and Christian Kjaer of the European Wind Energy Association points to the predictability of a windmill's energy output over many years as «a hedge against the uncertainty of fuel prices.&Energy Association points to the predictability of a windmill's energy output over many years as «a hedge against the uncertainty of fuel prices.&energy output over many years as «a hedge against the uncertainty of fuel prices.»

A study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» by LG Pugh, has shown that there is an increased energy cost of running on a solid surface, as opposed to on a treadmill, due to air resistance.

For a person running at a typical casual runner's pace of 2.5 meters per second (9 km / hr, or 5.6 mph) it can be shown, based on data collected by LG Pugh for the study titled «The influence of wind resistance in running and walking and the mechanical efficiency of work against horizontal or vertical forces,» that the energy cost of air resistance while running on solid ground is roughly 0.84 calories per kilometer (this is equivalent to approximately an extra 1.2 % calorie burn relative to a runner on a treadmill).

I am therefore surprised that Ike Solem (# 14), Joseph Romm (# 15) and SecularAnimist (# 18) all prosetalise about the risks we face and the benefits of wind and solar energy solutions but, nevertheless, appear to turn their faces against any major expansion in the use power from nuclear fission, apparently regardless of the type of fission.

John McCain has voted 20 times in the last decade - and - a-half against funding alternative energy sources, clean energy sources, wind, solar, biofuels.

«Shooting the professional messengers» as the Energy and Policy Institute publication by Barnard [14] has tried to do, will not stop the litigation for noise nuisance, negligence against complicit acousticians, or applications for injunctions to cease the operation of turbines, and will only further reduce the diminishing social licence for the wind industry to operate.

When you also consider that wind currently produces only about 4 % of America's power, and there is growing opposition to wind farms with cutbacks and moratoria being advanced in states like New Hampshire, Vermont, and Ohio, it looks like there continue to be stiff headwinds against the rapid growth of this favored Green energy source.

Some of the important factors include: technology has significantly improved, utilities are becoming more familiar with integrating wind energy, key federal tax incentives have been renewed and utilities are beginning to hedge against risks associated with fossil fuels.

Wind - generated electricity protect homeowners and business owners against rising energy prices.

Over the past few years, we have also heard from citizens very much against new wind energy development.

«At the end of the day,» Hochschild said, floating offshore wind «is going to have to compete against onshore wind, against solar and the other resources in the renewable energy family.»

«Onshore wind and solar are both now much more competitive against the established generation technologies than would have seemed possible only five or 10 years ago,» said Luke Mills, an energy economics analyst for Bloomberg New Energy Fienergy economics analyst for Bloomberg New Energy FiEnergy Finance.

It's rather amusing that the same environmental organizations that support wind energy are also against shale gas.

We are not against renewable energy but this area is clearly not suitable for a wind farm.

Comparing a # 13 billion ($ 19bn) outlay on a combined - cycle gas plant against a # 120bn outlay on wind farms, Professor Hughes found the renewable energy option was too expensive by any standard.

Landowners against the proposed Wind Catcher Energy Connection project on Monday received letters threatening to have an injunction filed against them if they don't allow officials to do an environmental survey of their properties.

«An Associated Press investigation in 2013 found that the Obama administration has charged oil companies for drowning birds in their waste pits, and power companies for electrocuting birds on power lines, but it has taken little if any action against wind - energy companies, shielding them from liability.»

Ted Kennedy — noted man from Nantucket and co-sponsor of dozens of renewable energy bills — took a stand — against the wind farms.»

Reblogged this on Mothers Against Wind Turbines Inc. and commented: Good explanation as to why storing energy for renewables is next to impossible....

This isn't some crusade against a cleaner source of energy, that would be silly to think that people against living in a wind turbine project want dirty air and water.

25 April Brussels — The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) released its Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update today, showing a maturing industry successfully competing in the marketplace, even against heavily subsidized traditional power generation technologies.

Offgrid Nigeria Wind power is doing just fine and competing magnificently against other heavily subsidized power sources, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has said.

OffshoreWIND.biz The Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has released its Global Wind Report: Annual Market Update, showing a maturing industry successfully competing in the marketplace, even against heavily subsidized traditional power generation technologies.

But those gas - fired plants face commodity and carbon price risks that will expose Albertans to higher electricity bills over the long term, something wind energy, with no fuel costs and no carbon emissions, can protect against.

«These tax credits are essential to the continued growth of wind energy, to the economic and energy security of the United States, and to a successful beginning in the fight against global warming,» said Wetstone.

When the geopotential energy in the west is sufficiently charged — and perhaps the Madden - Julian Oscillation causes the trade winds to falter — then these piled up waters will surge eastward to crash against the coast of the Americas.

That was the question posed by Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) chief Steve Sawyer — a man who knows more than most about the ups and downs of wind markets — as he launched the industry body's latest update against the backdrop of Windergy 2Wind Energy Council (GWEC) chief Steve Sawyer — a man who knows more than most about the ups and downs of wind markets — as he launched the industry body's latest update against the backdrop of Windergy 2wind markets — as he launched the industry body's latest update against the backdrop of Windergy 2017.

While no official position will be presented before the elections, there are little doubts that Germany will come out in favour a binding 2030 renewable energy target — which is critical for investor confidence in the wind energy sector — but the UK is officially against.

For the most part, wind energy applications consist of covering vital wind turbine components with shrink wrap to protect against harmful elements those components could face either in transit, in warehouse storage, or at the turbine lay - down site prior to erection and installation.

The report, published last week by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), a think tank that has campaigned against wind farms, will give ammunition to sceptics, especially within the Conservative Party, who believe the cost of subsidies to the wind industry is far too high and that the growing number of turbines are blighting the countryside.

We recall again the fact that two Auditors General for Ontario chastised the government for having implemented a green energy program including highly invasive wind power projects in quiet rural communities against their wishes, with no cost - benefit analysis.

Her plan is based entirely on other means of achieving the target - even though wind is by far the lowest cost form of renewable energy, and solar is likely to become cheaper by 2020 with continued support to the point where it competes directly against fossil fuel generation.

Coupled winds and current push surface water west to pile up against Australia and Indonesia in a vast pool of potential and thermal energy.

A lot of coverage of this is making it seem like the government is reacting to rural protest against wind and solar farms, and unfounded public concerns about higher energy costs due to green energy.

It acknowledges that any plausible path toward climate mitigation will involve a lot of nuclear energy, carbon capture and natural gas, pushing back against the delusional claims of the mainstream environmental movement that deep reductions in emissions can be accomplished with present - day wind, solar and energy - efficiency technologies alone.

Critics argue, for example, that a wind turbine farm can only operate at a «capacity factor» (a ratio that measures the potential output of an energy source against its actual output) of 30 to 35 percent, while a nuclear reactor operates at around 90 percent.

This shifts energy costs from ratepayers to taxpayers, but it also makes it easier for coal to compete against other forms of energy, including renewable energy like wind and solar.

In the new renewable energy economy, electricity prices will be insulated against fuel shocks, since energy from the wind and the sun is abundant and free.

However, anti-coal opponents who led the lawsuit against Perry's order argue that even if the state needed to generate more electricity, it should have come from cleaner energy sources such as wind power.