While the Offshore Wind Energy “Task Force” [headed by Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William (Bill) Mason and partially funded (and more than partially focused) by the Cleveland Foundation which is headed by alternative energy enthusiast Ronn Richard] has been measuring the ice thickness on Lake Erie off of Cleveland, Ohio - a brand new third generation of turbine blades is being installed in wind farms in California.
Notice compound curved blade tip and votex shedding reinforcment rib at blade base. (who is manufacturer?)
Clevehoga could have been doing the same if the “Task Force” had installed land based turbines four years ago. But why put turbines on land in our back yard? That could produce jobs (Paradis Inc. transport from Brooks, Minn. shows that there is work in rigging and hauling the blades) and upset the Ohio Coal Lobby which just got the AMPOHIO coal plant passed by the City of Cleveland. No, Mr. Mason and Mr. Richard went NIMBY [1]. Chose to go to the moon…and the Cuyahoga County Commissioners put up a million of our tax money to pay for the trip.
Instead of installing land based turbines similar to those installed in 2004 by the municipal utility in Bowling Green, Ohio, the “Task Force” has been pretending to figure out how to do what has never been done before…Put in fresh water turbines exposed to pack ice about 3 miles off of Cleveland in Lake Erie.
Is Clevehoga dumb, dummer, or dumbest? Or corrupt, corrupter, or corruptest?
Photo (composite) taken 2/11/09 on California Highway 58 east of Boron at intersection of Highway 395.
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Links:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY
[2] http://smtp.realneo.us/system/files/wind-turbine-blade-highway-.jpg