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The Pity of the Winds, by Robin Timmerman
Meet young police officer Pete Jakes and his Turkish-born wife, Ali. Pete’s last posting was as a Canadian soldier in Afghanistan. After a serious brush with a roadside explosive, he decided to switch careers and look for peace in rural Ontario. Unfortunately, the Jakes chose to come to Middle Island, population 4,500, where a proposed wind energy project has set the community into a tailspin. For millennia, Hawks Nest Point, a wind-swept rocky spear stabbing out into the lake, was literally left to the birds. Now an energy-hungry world has caught up with it. People want to harvest the wind. The Jakes find themselves setting up house amidst a weird potpourri of bird lovers, money-hungry real estate operators, and mysterious vandals in the night. Then tragedy strikes when a worker falls to his death from the demonstration turbine tower. Pete doubts the official “accident” verdict, but he must find proof for his suspicions. As Pete delves further into the motives and actions of the local islanders, tempers erupt and a murderer lurks under the wailing winds at Hawks Nest Point.
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Ontario Wind Turbine Map
Some more light reading:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/08/06/wind-energy-is-extraordinarily-expensive-and-inefficient/
Wind power expensive!? Really?!
A direct link to the Paper at the GWPF:
http://thegwpf.org/images/stories/gwpf-reports/hughes-evidence.pdf
Enjoy — like we didn’t know this eh? But still…
More summertime reading and a bit of math…
Pumped Storage — Will it work?
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
The main problem with gravitational storage is that it is incredibly weak compared to chemical, compressed air, or flywheel techniques (see the post on home energy storage options). For example, to get the amount of energy stored in a single AA battery, we would have to lift 100 kg (220 lb) 10 m (33 ft) to match it. To match the energy contained in a gallon of gasoline, we would have to lift 13 tons of water (3500 gallons) one kilometer high (3,280 feet). It is clear that the energy density of gravitational storage is severely disadvantaged.
Enlightening eh?
Explore the site — for other lessons…
Summertime – and the violin – is playing
London, Ontario – Water Oopsy!
Story start:
June 13, 2012 11:00pm
That sinking feeling . . .
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/06/13/19875186.html
Update:
July 19, 2012 7:11am
City sues over water leaks
LAWSUIT: Repairs to the $57-million reservoir are expected to cost millions
http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/07/18/20001836.html
Oops! – who originally – made the bad deal?
I’m pretty sure a true story written by one of the wind victims here in Ontario would make this book look like a fairly tale!
It’s like nobody – is watching!
….’[excerpt] money-hungry real estate operators,’