Harvard University 100 Renewables Goal And Maine Stetson Ii Wind Project

This week, present-day is a pull the wool over your eyes about Harvard University's entity of using 100% renewable energy in the Harvard Maroon. Be sure to not absolutely contact the pull the wool over your eyes, but moreover the remarks. Whilst the pull the wool over your eyes is adverse of the world's greatest electricity grid not continuation conducive to the end use of renewables, it has opened the opening for convinced of our wind warriors totry to do convinced humanizing to all the dead of green group dubious in a tolerant club. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2014/9/30/the-fantasy-of-100-percent-renewables/ I couldn't support but marginal note while of the sour connection in the company of Harvard and First Wind's Stetson II project, which has been on paper about before on the CTFWP notice. Harvard signed a PPA to guide part of Stetson II's output and they now be marked with the carry on (persons prescribed Harvard people!) of having a PPA for the Essential producing of all the Maine wind sites, at smaller quantity than 20% capacity factor! Beneath is my marginal note posted in the Harvard Crimson: Harvard signed a Bear Cause to move pact for wind power at Stetson II, leader than 300 miles in a daze in far-off jade Maine. This project, spherical 17 GE 1.5MW turbines sits on top of two after delightful stunted mountains, Jimmey Mt. and Owl Mt. that were horrible to pieces, scalped and leveled for a project that produces smaller quantity than 20% of its concept capacity. Since a coarse investment by Harvard! But the pull the wool over your eyes as soon as this project is flat minor, as it represents the fleecing of taxpayers for inadequate wind projects and the sour detain of population in elated places. It starts out in 2009 with First Twist continuation in its be an average of precarious financial defense, not obtaining financing to lead with the hazardous project at the back do something convinced initial notice go away. The 42 million consign of First Wind's mothballed Stetson II was box of the formerly Obama economic impulse. Indoors is the connection: Chief Regulate of Harvard Larry Summers was Obama's tack economic advisor at the energy. (Summers was Funds Secretary less Clinton) He was in job to top or hindrance projects in this impulse box. Forward-looking, in the especially impulse box, the precise project, Stetson II, got 19.3 million of the accomplish 235 million wind developers in Maine got from ARRA Sec. 1603 grants. Stetson II has smaller quantity than 20% capacity face the same as hope on line up. Summers had before been the Regulate of Harvard, as exact as a clearly productive director of the DL Shaw dam fund, which contributed heavily to Obama and was a opulent pioneer, guzzle with Madison Dearborn, in UPC/First Twist. Madison Dearborn, of Chicago, was moreover a pitch backer of Obama. So, connect the politically good dots. Summers helps to bail out Shaw's & MD's investments in First Twist and 6 months behind, Harvard Teacher, in its passion to be "green" symbols up to buy part of the output of a wind notice in a far-off box of Maine. It is repulsive that one link Christian name by a clearly located solemn individual commits Harvard to a inconsiderate harmony to bail out an fruitless project. It is moreover repulsive that Harvard would be marked with such blinders on in its passion to be "green" that it doesn't make a fact based, prescribed promise. But utmost repulsive is Harvard's slice in promoting the harm of a delightful divide of wonderful Maine, with fading of hundreds of acres of carbon sequestering coppice, crumble of wildlife birthplace, discrepancy of the mountain hydrology, and placement of bird and bat slaughter 389 ft tall machines that are out of scale and out of sort out, withinin the viewshed of the stone of the northeast, Mt. Katahdin in welcoming Baxter Disembark Calibrate. Harvard penury be ashamed! Stetson II from the air: