Comments for The Debate Over Wind Farms In The Great Lakes at http://www.michiganpolicy.com , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.michiganpolicy.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:02:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.michiganpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=&catid=&Itemid=143#comment-671 If you wanna really put wind turbines you have to check the real price of wind generated electricity and compare it with alternatives. Any windfarms I saw so far costs of $0.9 per kwh of electricity generated. For nuclear power plants, numbers can be as low as $0.45 per kwh (UAE - S. Korean deal). Well I personnaly think nuclear power is an alternative because of its low footprint. We would need so much wind turbines to generate the same amount of electricity, that would be a real bird killer. - Alex555 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:31:06 +0100 http://www.michiganpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=&catid=&Itemid=143#comment-629 My company proposed developing large offshore wind farms in the center of each of the Great Lakes to all the surrounding States including Canada. The turbines could all be sited over the horizon 10-15 miles away. All of the turbines are a new patent accelerating turbine design with bird screens to eliminate avian mortality. Not one US State governor even responded to the concept of unlimited low-cost clean electricity for their people. Canada was the only government polite enough to respond positively. See; http://www.zero-carbon-energy.com/PGCR.htm - Peter Sterling Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:25:13 +0100 http://www.michiganpolicy.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=&catid=&Itemid=143#comment-625 This is MY HOME on the lakeshore in Ludington 365 days a year. Please stop minimizing opposition to wind factories by characterizing opponents as NIMBY cottage owners. I do not need to have the state and federal governments spend my own tax dollars to lure heavy industry from Europe that has not proven to decommission a single fossil fueled power plant anywhere in the world. The technology proposed has not been proven in any closed-system freshwater application. It relies on hauling 20,000 tons of concrete with deisel-powered transportation, spewing particulates in the air during manufacturing, then dumping it onto the lakebed where it becomes vulnerable to ice-buildup and wave action, putting at risk all the dwellings along these dunes. This is not my definition of green technology, rather an abuse of the environment. Moreover, the same wind that blows on the lake, blows over land. Consumers Energy, which certainly understands the lakeshore surrounding their Pumped Storage Plant, chose to build their wind turbines on land due to risk to the shoreline, They leased easements from the landowners directly involved. This exploits the existing wind energy, but does not exploit the lakeshore property owners who apparently have no control over what happens in the lake. - Joan Clair Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:55:55 +0100