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    Here another one:

    Red states pump out more carbon pollution than blue ones




    http://grist.org/climate-energy/red-..._campaign=feed

    RED STATES SUCK, BLUE STATES DON'T

    Repugs screw their states, their people, their environment.


    ?
    I wonder.

    Is there anyone as partisan as you in these forums?

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    New Study Finds 14 of The 15 Biggest ‘Moocher States’ Are Republican Controlled



    http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/...iticus+USA+%29
    This laughable again?

    Red states are cheaper to live in. Wages are less for the same jobs because costs of living are lower. therefore, when the federal government does a one-size-fits-all for federal funds, red states get more.

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    This laughable again?

    Red states are cheaper to live in. Wages are less for the same jobs because costs of living are lower. therefore, when the federal government does a one-size-fits-all for federal funds, red states get more.
    bull

    not about cost of living, but $$ send to DC vs $$$ received from DC. eg, MS is 1:3, but those CONFEDERATE STATE RIGHTERS just HATE THE FEDS.

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    bull

    not about cost of living, but $$ send to DC vs $$$ received from DC. eg, MS is 1:3, but those CONFEDERATE STATE RIGHTERS just HATE THE FEDS.
    Bull . I've destroyed this tired meme every time your rss feed compels you to post it.

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    Is Texas Souring On Wind Power?

    Texas has more wind power generation than any other state, so it’s only fitting that Texas regulators are starting to ask some tough questions about wind power subsidies.The head of the state’s Public Utility Commission, Donna Nelson, is calling for a study to consider whether wind generators should start paying their share of transmission costs.

    Texas already invested $7 billion in high-capacity power lines that the state built to connect West Texas wind farms with the more populous cities in the east — such as Dallas and Houston. But wind power, as an intermittent resource, can create additional transmission costs, and those costs are borne by all the electricity customers in the deregulated market, which is about 85 percent of the state. Part of the study will determine the amount of the extra transmission costs and what, if any, remedy is needed, a PUC spokesman said.

    Wind power developers warn that making wind companies pay the same transmission rates as other generators will destroy Texas’ lead in wind power and undermine the economics of wind generation. Nelson, however, claims that giving wind companies a pass is no longer necessary because the industry has been around long enough to figure out its economics.


    In fact, Texas may actually have a greater supply of wind energy than the new transmission lines can handle, so it may be the perfect time to consider a little pruning. Already, other alternative energy supplies, such as solar power generators, have had difficulty accessing the publicly financed lines.


    For Texas, the stakes are high. The issue isn’t just power, but also water. With much of the state in a years-long drought, Texas is looking for ways to conserve water, and wind power could go a long way to reducing the huge amounts of water currently used in generating electricity — but only if wind can compete.


    What Nelson is considering is whether wind companies should be treated the same as other generators when it comes to accessing the grid. Texas has a fragmented and deeply troubled “deregulated” electric system. Generators compete to sell power to retailers, who in turn compete for customers. But the transmission portion of the grid remains regulated. That means that the PUC must approve new transmission lines or upgrades. The transmission companies then finance the construction, and they are allowed to recoup those costs through transmission fees that are ultimately passed on to the consumer. Wind power, of course, gets distributed across the grid the same as any other generation.

    As a result, consumers in Texas are getting something of a double-whammy from wind. They pay the cost of maintaining the system in their bills, while paying part of their taxes to subsidize the construction of the additional lines to the wind farms.


    The three-member PUC has been at odds over ways to improve the many failing of Texas’ deregulated electricity experiment. Nelson, for her part, has no been a big fan of renewables in general. It’s not clear how her fellow commissioners will feel about the wind subsidy study or what actions, if any, they might take.


    But Nelson is right about one thing: it’s time to start asking some tough questions about wind power. Other states have been less generous in supporting it, and Congress last year refused to extend wind’s production tax credit, which caused wind farm construction to plummet.


    Consider what Warren Buffett told his shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway ’s annual meeting in Omaha this year:

    On wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.

    But what about wind generation that’s already built? Texans have already invested billions, and they deserve to know if wind power can stand on the same compe ive footing as other forms of power generation. If can’t, the state will have to ask itself some other tough questions: what will it take to make it viable, and for how long will we be willing to pay the price?


    http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenste...on-wind-power/

    "capitalist tool" Forbes and the REPUG-tainted/corrupt
    Public Utility Commission want to kill wind power growth to protect TX's coal and nuclear campaign contributors.

    TX gives about $20B in tax breaks and subsidies to TX established (BigCarbon) businesses, but newcomer/disrupter wind power must got it alone? GMAFB




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    Is Texas Souring On Wind Power?

    Texas has more wind power generation than any other state, so it’s only fitting that Texas regulators are starting to ask some tough questions about wind power subsidies.The head of the state’s Public Utility Commission, Donna Nelson, is calling for a study to consider whether wind generators should start paying their share of transmission costs.


    Texas already invested $7 billion in high-capacity power lines that the state built to connect West Texas wind farms with the more populous cities in the east — such as Dallas and Houston. But wind power, as an intermittent resource, can create additional transmission costs, and those costs are borne by all the electricity customers in the deregulated market, which is about 85 percent of the state. Part of the study will determine the amount of the extra transmission costs and what, if any, remedy is needed, a PUC spokesman said.

    Wind power developers warn that making wind companies pay the same transmission rates as other generators will destroy Texas’ lead in wind power and undermine the economics of wind generation. Nelson, however, claims that giving wind companies a pass is no longer necessary because the industry has been around long enough to figure out its economics.


    In fact, Texas may actually have a greater supply of wind energy than the new transmission lines can handle, so it may be the perfect time to consider a little pruning. Already, other alternative energy supplies, such as solar power generators, have had difficulty accessing the publicly financed lines.


    For Texas, the stakes are high. The issue isn’t just power, but also water. With much of the state in a years-long drought, Texas is looking for ways to conserve water, and wind power could go a long way to reducing the huge amounts of water currently used in generating electricity — but only if wind can compete.


    What Nelson is considering is whether wind companies should be treated the same as other generators when it comes to accessing the grid. Texas has a fragmented and deeply troubled “deregulated” electric system. Generators compete to sell power to retailers, who in turn compete for customers. But the transmission portion of the grid remains regulated. That means that the PUC must approve new transmission lines or upgrades. The transmission companies then finance the construction, and they are allowed to recoup those costs through transmission fees that are ultimately passed on to the consumer. Wind power, of course, gets distributed across the grid the same as any other generation.

    As a result, consumers in Texas are getting something of a double-whammy from wind. They pay the cost of maintaining the system in their bills, while paying part of their taxes to subsidize the construction of the additional lines to the wind farms.


    The three-member PUC has been at odds over ways to improve the many failing of Texas’ deregulated electricity experiment. Nelson, for her part, has no been a big fan of renewables in general. It’s not clear how her fellow commissioners will feel about the wind subsidy study or what actions, if any, they might take.


    But Nelson is right about one thing: it’s time to start asking some tough questions about wind power. Other states have been less generous in supporting it, and Congress last year refused to extend wind’s production tax credit, which caused wind farm construction to plummet.


    Consider what Warren Buffett told his shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway ’s annual meeting in Omaha this year:

    On wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.

    But what about wind generation that’s already built? Texans have already invested billions, and they deserve to know if wind power can stand on the same compe ive footing as other forms of power generation. If can’t, the state will have to ask itself some other tough questions: what will it take to make it viable, and for how long will we be willing to pay the price?


    http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenste...on-wind-power/

    "capitalist tool" Forbes and the REPUG-tainted/corrupt
    Public Utility Commission want to kill wind power growth to protect TX's coal and nuclear campaign contributors.

    TX gives about $20B in tax breaks and subsidies to TX established (BigCarbon) businesses, but newcomer/disrupter wind power must got it alone? GMAFB




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    Wind Turbine Manufacturer Hiring 800 People In Colorado As Orders Pile Up





    While the politics of fracking has taken hold of election-year energy discussions in Colorado, the wind power industry is quietly surging. On Friday Vesta Wind Systems announced it was hiring 800 new workers, part of plans to fill 1,500 jobs this year in Colorado, after receiving orders for 370 turbines over the last few weeks. The jobs will be full-time, high-skilled jobs primarily in the manufacturing of blades and towers.

    “We have received U.S. orders of 740 MW in the last month alone, so our North American factories are very busy, as are factories overseas,” Vestas spokesman Adam Serchuk told ThinkProgress.

    “As far as I can see this will be the case at least through the end of 2015.”


    At the end of June, Vestas, the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturer with its U.S. headquarters in Portland, Oregon, announced orders for 450 megawatts worth of wind turbines for two U.S. wind farms. Totaling 225 machines, the farms will be in New Mexico and Kansas and scheduled for completion by the end of 2015. In early July the company received another order for 166 megawatts of wind turbines for a Minnesota wind farm. There was also one more order for 124 megawatts for a wind farm in North Dakota.

    “By hosting turbines on their land, Colorado farmers, ranchers and other landowners receive upwards of $7.5 million a year in land lease payments from wind projects,” wrote Sarah Cottrell Propst, executive director of the Interwest Energy Alliance, a trade company representing the renewable energy industry, last week. “Communities gain from a broader tax base, and wind farms pay out millions a year, helping to pay for roads, schools, and other critical public projects.”

    http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...lorado-vestas/

    Vestas (Denmark) is considering leaving Portland OR for CO.



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    Wind Farm Fires Far More Common Than Reported




    Fires in wind turbines are happening ten times more often than they are reported, according to new research from Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh and SP Technical Research Ins ute of Sweden.

    The incidence of fire is still far less than in fossil fuel-based energy industries, such as oil and gas, which suffer thousands of fire accidents per year. The wind industry reports about 11 fires per year, but the researchers found there are more likely about 117 wind turbine fires annually across more than 200,000 turbines. For the wind industry, the fires are the second leading cause of accidents after blade failure.

    Inside of the turbine’s nacelle, hydraulic oil and plastics share the same tight space as machinery and electrical wires. When there is overheating or faulty wiring it can catch fire. The nacelles are perched behind the turbines so high winds often fuel the flames.


    Because the turbines are so tall and are often in remote areas, they are usually destroyed before the fire can be suppressed. In 90 percent of the cases, the fire leads to substantial downtime or a total loss of the wind turbine.

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/...+Green+Tech%29



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    As Congress Fails To Support Wind Power, More U.S.-Made Wind Turbines Are Being Sold Overseas

    A report released by the Department of Energy Monday shows a substantial increase in the percentage of American-made small wind turbines being sold to other countries, driven in part by Congress’ refusal to act on renewing a key subsidy for the U.S. wind industry, which has created uncertainty in the market.

    A vast majority — 76 percent — of the small wind turbines manufactured in the United States were exported to other countries last year, the DOE’s 2013 Distributed Wind Market Report said. That’s a big increase from 2012, when only 57 percent of U.S.-made small turbines were exported. The market for U.S. turbines is spread across the world, too — small wind turbines produced here were sold to more than 50 countries, the report said, with top export markets in Italy, Germany, China, and Mexico, among others.


    “To compensate for weaker domestic sales, U.S. small wind turbine manufacturers shifted their focus to growing international markets,” The report read. “Importers interviewed for this report indicated that they spent their efforts in more promising international markets … as it was hard to justify sales efforts in the United States without consistent policy support at the federal, state, and utility levels.”

    The wind energy industry has struggled to receive consistent policy support particularly within Congress, which most recently refused to revive the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) — a $13 billion yearly tax break to the wind industry that has historically helped them compete with fossil fuels. The PTC for wind is a subsidy that’s been built into the tax code for years to encourage growth in the wind industry, but expired on January 1, 2014 due to Congressional gridlock.


    It was likely not the actual expiration of the PTC that caused manufacturers to move away from U.S. markets, though. Rather, it was the fact that Congress has repeatedly waited until the last minute to make a decision about whether to renew it. It was only at the very end of 2012 that the tax credit was renewed, uncertainty that proved to be too much for investors, who mostly chose to invest elsewhere in the face of that uncertainty.


    The expiration of the PTC is far from the only thing making the domestic wind energy market “sluggish” though, the report noted. Wind’s distributed generation market competes with solar’s distributed generation market, which is improving with “substantial cost reductions” of solar photovoltaic systems. Federal, state, and local incentives for wind energy generation vary greatly — permitting barriers, unreliable performance predictions, and the lack of available financing also play a part.

    http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...-wind-reports/

    Thanks, Repugs, you constipating turds block EVERYTHING, block job creation, block company expansion, block investors, block, block, block.



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    why is it the gulf only charge its citizens for oil usage cheap ass rates, while everyone outside the gulf consumers pay market rates at the pump

    even a big ass country like australia leading producer of LPG, we dont get concessions cheap ass prices compared to gulf consumers with oil, we pay market rates

    down here we have 1000yrs worth of coal still un-mined, dont get me started with lpg reserves not fracked yet

    lol was reading an article they the yanks in a partnership with some private companies down here have found another oil field on the west coasts which has reserves about 300m barrels...talk about fracking (since you clowns have a base down here and starting to move ur nuke subs and down here...when are u clowns going to colonize this place?)

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    U.S. Wind Power Growth Stalled in 2013 as Prices Drop to All-Time Lows

    A Department of Energy report on wind energy technologies and market status highlights dramatic cost reductions amidst a tenuous and uncertain future for the renewable energy source. Installations of wind power in the United States in 2013 didn't come close to matching the previous few years, and federal policy uncertainty points to a shaky outlook for continued growth.

    The industry added 1087 megawatts of new wind capacity in 2013 in the United States, which is amazingly only eight percent of that added in 2012. By the end of 2013 the total installed capacity had reached about 61 gigawatts.

    It was a down by another measure as well:
    wind power made up seven percent of all new electricity generating additions, compared with a six-year run before 2013 where that number ranged between 25 and 43 percent.

    As 2013 came to a close, wind energy proponents mourned the death of the production tax credit, the primary federal support mechanism to help spur growth in the industry.

    The details of that death, however, suggest that the next few years will actually see amazing amounts of wind energy installed: the credit was available for any project that began construction by the end of 2013, meaning that everyone tried to jump into that pool instead of waiting until this year when it had dried up. The Energy Department's report highlights this, noting that an astonishing 114 gigawatts of wind is now officially in interconnection queues; not all of that will get built, but it does mean a big pile of turbines is on its way over the next two to three years.


    Those projects are getting moving at the same that the industry is seeing
    wind power prices dropping to "all-time lows" according to the Energy Department.

    Power purchase agreements for wind energy peaked at almost US $70 per megawatt-hour in 2009, but those signed in 2013 averaged about $25/MWh. The report acknowledges that the price data is based on a limited sample size of projects that are largely in lower-cost areas of the country, but even when compared to other generation sources
    wind power is proving to be cost compe ive.

    That being said, policy-based market drivers are probably still necessary to spur continued growth. With the federal tax credit now gone, it is state-based renewable energy portfolio requirements that will be the primary driver according to the report:

    From 1999 through 2013, 69% of the wind power capacity built in the United States was located in states with RPS policies... In 2013, this proportion was 93%.

    But unless those requirements are ramped up in big ways, or new states add them (we've been sitting on 29 plus Washington D.C. for some time now), they may prove insufficient to really drive much new capacity at all.


    All in all, the picture is a muddled combination of rosy and bleak. The report concludes:

    Despite the lower price of wind energy and the potential for further technological improvements and cost reductions, federal policy uncertainty—in concert with continued low natural gas prices, modest electricity demand growth, and the aforementioned slack in existing state policies—may put a damper on growth.

    http://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/...m%3A+Energy%29

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