And Solar fries them.... maybe the environmentalists just need to shut up about their precious birds if they every want to see wide-spread green deployment. On the other hand we have all seen their NIMBY behavior when you try to put wind turbines near their expensive beach homes or solar fields near their ranches.
Obama Lies Again
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And Solar fries them.... maybe the environmentalists just need to shut up about their precious birds if they every want to see wide-spread green deployment. On the other hand we have all seen their NIMBY behavior when you try to put wind turbines near their expensive beach homes or solar fields near their ranches.
I have a small one installed on my property. Not an eyesore like a regular wind turbine and has a lower wind speed threshold for generating power. Thinking of getting another one later this yr.
I agree with you that vertical access wind turbines are less of an eyesore than regular turbines. As a homeowner, they are easier to install and maintain.
Two weeks ago, I was in meetings in Cambridge MA, one of the guys was from Germany. He was trying to get the local town to approve a very small wind turbine on his roof, but they would not because they viewed it as unsightly (in reality it is barely visible). He can have solar panels on the roof but no small wind turbine. I told him to go back, claim the device was an anemometer (which they are not allowed to regulate because it is weather recording equipment) and then install it.
KXL oil is NOT an export pipeline
http://energytomorrow.org/blog/2015/february/feb-24-ihs-study-kxl-oil-is-not-an-export-pipeline
For as long as the Keystone delay and debate has been going on, critics of the project have tried to misinform the public that Canada is just using the US to export its oil to the rest of the world. Well today, another creditable study is proving those critics wrong. According to a new report by IHS CERA:
“Most, if not all, crude oil that would be transported via the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast would not be exported, and the vast majority of refined product (about 70 percent) derived from it would be consumed in the United States”
President Obama who has often dismissed KXL as an export pipeline should take note of this study and his own State Department findings that the Canadian oil sands would be consumed here. Not to mention the president’s National Export Initiative calls for increasing exports; any petroleum products that are exported would not only help reduce our trade deficit but could also help us meet this goal.
(More at above url)
http://energytomorrow.org/blog/2015/february/feb-24-ihs-study-kxl-oil-is-not-an-export-pipeline
For as long as the Keystone delay and debate has been going on, critics of the project have tried to misinform the public that Canada is just using the US to export its oil to the rest of the world. Well today, another creditable study is proving those critics wrong. According to a new report by IHS CERA:
“Most, if not all, crude oil that would be transported via the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. Gulf Coast would not be exported, and the vast majority of refined product (about 70 percent) derived from it would be consumed in the United States”
President Obama who has often dismissed KXL as an export pipeline should take note of this study and his own State Department findings that the Canadian oil sands would be consumed here. Not to mention the president’s National Export Initiative calls for increasing exports; any petroleum products that are exported would not only help reduce our trade deficit but could also help us meet this goal.
(More at above url)
Forget About Keystone XL – Canadian Crude Is Coming
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forget-keystone-xl-canadian-crude-223258770.html
While Congress and the White House continue to wrangle over the Keystone XL pipeline extension, the oil industry is taking matters into its own hands.
Markets are primed for an influx of Canadian crude oil, but with pipeline transport off the table for the foreseeable future, producers have built alternative modes to meet the demand. The problem is, recent disasters have soured legislators and environmentalists on road and rail for moving oil.
(More at above url)
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/forget-keystone-xl-canadian-crude-223258770.html
While Congress and the White House continue to wrangle over the Keystone XL pipeline extension, the oil industry is taking matters into its own hands.
Markets are primed for an influx of Canadian crude oil, but with pipeline transport off the table for the foreseeable future, producers have built alternative modes to meet the demand. The problem is, recent disasters have soured legislators and environmentalists on road and rail for moving oil.
(More at above url)
Ex-treasury secretary stumps for Keystone
http://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20150407/281496454798952/TextView
http://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20150407/281496454798952/TextView
"Shipping oil by rail is a 'dangerous' activity dating back to the 20th century" - such a quaint, more innocent time
In the early days of oil, the development of pipelines was driven by two issues. First the high prices the railroad owners charged for shipping oil. The second being the oil train wrecks that regularly wiped out entire towns.
You would have thought the U.S. would have learned its lesson about not using rail to ship oil over 100 years ago. Sadly we have not.