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- Are you interested in becoming an organizer in your area?
- Yes
- Tell us about your experience with alternative energy:
- I head up the Internet news group Kansans for Wind Energy. I have been promoting wind energy in Kansas for the last three years as a way to help our struggling small towns. I have been lobbying against the building of coal plants in Kansas because this would slow the development of wind energy in Kansas.
- What excites you about this campaign?
- T. Boone Pickens is a credible spokesman for this issue. I believe he can get the politicians to listen. This can be great for the depopulation zone that runs from Texas up to Canada and reverse the trend of people leaving these great little towns.
- What do you want to do to help?
- I want to continue to send information to my group Kansans for Wind Energy. We are working to push the Kansas Legislature away from the development of coal plants and towards the development of wind energy. So far we have defeated the development of the proposed coal plants at Holcomb Kansas.
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Smoky Hills Wind Project is being built in two phases 20 miles west of Salina Kansas just off I-70
The Smoky Hills Wind Project is being built in two phases 20 miles west of Salina Kansas just off I-70. This wind farm will be able to supply the electricity for about 75,000 homes. By comparison, Salina has about 20,000 homes. It will be completed by November of this year. There are 120 landowners and some 26000 acres involved however the project will use less than 2% of the land and that includes all roads, turbine foundations and maintenance buildings. The area economic impact will be sizeabl… Continue
Posted on July 13, 2008 at 8:00am —
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We are all older now, but I really like the coffee table! The turbine is not really visible in the photo. Do you have a drawing, or perhaps some data on its performance. It's just curiosity. I assume you applied for a patent long ago. Did one or more issue?
Frank Eldridge was our wind guy. He retired and went to live in Hawaii after I left MITRE in 1980. He told me about several bold new designs for wind turbines, and I recall that he liked yours. We did not give DOE advice on contracts for support (we could not do so under our FCRC arrangement). Do you have some pictures or details of your concept? I never saw your design.
e-mail to your rep. You type in a few key strokes and
it auto adresses the e-mail to all your reps and the GOV.
of your state based on zip code. Has a sugested draft of a letter to send. NEVER EASYER. Spread the word to click on the ACTION CENTER at the main web site.
that I know of. Our average wind speed is 13 MPH at 6 feet off the ground and faster yet as you go up. and the plant is more than 15 miles from center of garden city and 4 or 5 south west of
holcumb. The wind blows out of the south or north so does not seem to bother any body. In comparison I live 3 miles from a Huge feed lot that is east of me. I only smell manure 2 or 3 times a year when the wind does not blow hard and when it is in JUST exactly the right direction.
another angle is our soil very high ph. So the acid in the acid rain is very good for it. To make a comparison we have to ADD
1000's of pounds of S04 to the soil to bring it down to neutral.
Long and short IF your going to have a coal plant We want it in our back yard!! IF you look at the numbers NO one thing will fix our energy needs. IN fact if we adopt them ALL we will still not get over half of our needs SO we will need some coal some where. Perhaps we should put it where it does the least harm??
It is the folks in Topeka ( maybe only one nice blond headed woman) that are agaist it. The locals are for it.
it just makes us have a narrow base to suport wind and CNG.
The chinese have a saying
"If a man has a 1000 freinds he can always use another
but no man wants another enemy".
In sales you want to give them a choice between SOMETHING and SOMETHING. are you for wind power and compressed natural gas and coal or are you for wind power and compressed natural gas and clean coal.
lets make it a win win choice.
We will need the coal plants to pay for the electric lines to get the solar power transported. I am looking for republican and democrat suport. We will need the solar, wind and coal and compressed natural gas to get us out of the whole we are in.
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Mark Ritter