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2007-09-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2007-09-06 06:22|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 ......But while the waters off Cape Cod have given abundantly to the Kennedys, these same waters have also cruelly taken from them. First came the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969, when Edward Kennedy seemed to show more concern with keeping his presidential hopes alive than with saving a passenger in his car.

Thirty years later (almost to the day), the Kennedys' best prospect for returning to the White House, John F. Kennedy Jr., crashed off Martha's Vineyard at the helm of a plane he was too inexperienced to safely fly -- taking with him his wife and sister-in-law.

By this spring, Ted Kennedy had become the most prominent opponent of an offshore wind farm that he might be expected to support -- only this one hits too close to home. As if arranged by fate in a Greek tragedy, the project is proposed for Nantucket Sound, within view of the Kennedy compound, several miles away.

Excerpt from an article by Jack Coleman, a former Cape Cod Times political reporter who supports "The Wind Farm."

http://www.windfarmersalmanac.com/

Posted by Besoeker 2007-09-06 08:04|| 2007-09-06 08:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Doesn't matter. They will continue to vote for him, as it is there religion.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-09-06 09:05|| 2007-09-06 09:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy

Might have something to do with being an idiot.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-09-06 09:42|| 2007-09-06 09:42|| Front Page Top

#4 So, to sum up:

1) Wrecking your car while DWI and then deserting the passenger, leaving her to die: OK!

2) Opposing an environmental project: OMG WE WILL OPPOSE YOUR REELECTION!

Posted by gromky 2007-09-06 10:11|| 2007-09-06 10:11|| Front Page Top

#5 Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy

Might have something to do with being an idiot.

Nope. That would be a reason to support him.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-09-06 10:52|| 2007-09-06 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 2) Opposing an environmental project: OMG WE WILL OPPOSE YOUR REELECTION!

Opposing an enviromental HOAX. Electriacl appliances require constant power and there is no solution to store elctricity efficiently and without massive damage to envirmenet (components in battetries are highly dangerous). The usefulness of wind farms is zero, zilch, nada. Except for lining the pockets of manufacturers and nuturing the wet dreams of the greens.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-09-06 10:56|| 2007-09-06 10:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Due to variability, wind farms displace only 3-4% electrical generating capacity. The other 96-97% of generating capacity still has to built and spinning, ready to take over at any time. Stupid decisions like this is why windswept Danes pay 2-3 times what Americans pay.

Posted by ed 2007-09-06 11:15|| 2007-09-06 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Traveling west I saw lots of windfarms and windmills being erected everywhere. About 1/2 the windmills were not spinning. I assume the wind was too fast or too slow.
So based on a non-scientific view out the car window I would say.. %50 duty cycle.
This implies the need for geographically (windolgy?) distributed mills and a 2X or 3X over engineering.

Posted by 3dc 2007-09-06 13:24|| 2007-09-06 13:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I don't care. I just want to see em built to piss off Ted Kennedy...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-06 13:36|| 2007-09-06 13:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Given the energy needed to manufacture, transport and maintain them, will any given wind turbine exceed that value in its operational lifetime?

Posted by eLarson 2007-09-06 15:54|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-09-06 15:54|| Front Page Top

#11 will any given wind turbine exceed that value in its operational lifetime?

If simply attempting to build them causes Ted Kennedy's fawning syncophants to turn on him and bring him down in an orgy of fratricidal strife, they'll be cheap at twice the price.

Posted by Mike 2007-09-06 17:56|| 2007-09-06 17:56|| Front Page Top

#12 Let's face it, he is a huge target.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-09-06 18:41|| 2007-09-06 18:41|| Front Page Top

#13 Look, let's be serious, if the damn windfarm can get build who cares about the cost/benefit ratio.....

A Kennedy is going to loose his head via Parasailing, gliding or drunken Pier Climbing... NOW THAT'S GOTTA BE WORTH SOMETHING!

Posted by Thomas Woof 2007-09-06 19:13|| 2007-09-06 19:13|| Front Page Top

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