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Windmills Raise Hurricane of Opposition

The idea of windmills brings to mind bucolic Renaissance paintings of Dutch landscapes and tulip beds. But that’s hardly the experience of some who have to live next to the 400-foot electricity-generating giants being built across America’s breezy plains. They complain about the incessant “whoosh-whoosh-whoosh” of the machines at work, the flashes of light and shade across their windows, and the occasional terrifying midnight screech of turbines repositioning themselves to catch shifting winds. “It sounds like a train going through, except the train never comes through,” said Wayne Danley, whose life had been turned upside down by a giant windmill located 900 feet from his house in rural Fenner, N.Y., where he has lived since 1976. Danley said he fears the days when the winds come from the northwest. “The whoop, whoop, whoop becomes a roar,” he said. And in the spring before the trees sprout leaves, the turning turbine causes flashes of light in his living room that so annoyed his wife, the pastor of a local church, that she had to flee to the bedroom to get away from it. Danley said he has nothing against windmills or the 19 others in the neighboring windfarm. He only wishes […]

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Cape Wind Project Faces New Threat

URL: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/03/cape_wind_project_faces_new_threat/ Website: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/03/cape_wind_project_faces_new_threat/     

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Maryland Adopts Historic Global Warming Law

URL: http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1925&topicId=100002047&docId=l:371465864&start=4 Website: http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=1925&topicId=100002047&docId=l:371465864&start=4     

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Deep, Deep Down, Fish Are Booming

URL: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0330_060330_deep_fish.html Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0330_060330_deep_fish.html     

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WorldWater Wins $1.9M Science Center Bid

WorldWater & Power Corp. (OTCBB:WWAT) has won a $1.9 million dollar bid award to design and install two solar electric systems at the Liberty Science Center, the most visited science museum in New Jersey. After signing the award letter, Connie Claman, Vice President of Resource Administration for the Center, said, “We all look forward to working with WorldWater & Power to implement the solar power program at the Liberty Science Center. This will be a particularly appropriate installation for the expanded Science Center and will provide great visibility to the benefits of solar power to the citizens of the regions.” One photovoltaic installation, a 122 kW unit, is to be mounted on the roof of the newly expanded Liberty Science Center facility and will face the Statue of Liberty as a symbol of clean, renewable energy. The other, a 105 kW installation, is a “Solar Walkway” that will lead from the bus parking lot to the center’s main entrance. Here, overhead solar panels will serve double-duty as a canopy to protect visitors from the elements while generating electric power from the sun. Both units are expected to substantially reduce the Liberty Science Center’s utility costs. Quentin T. Kelly, WorldWater & […]

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