Take a ride by the Portsmouth wind turbine and see for yourself how a local wind turbine failed, broke down months ago and provides a source of renewable energy that cost the taxpayers three times the cost of current electric rates.

The Portsmouth high school wind turbine suffered a catastrophic gear box failure back in May of 2012.This is another project that has the RIEDC invested in. The RIEDC did nothing to steer the town away from a startup company.

It's after Thanksgiving and the turbine stands as a monument to commercial wind turbine failures worldwide.

Local politicians have said the turbine that broke down after only three years is still a good investment. They are telling taxpayers that the turbine made $400,000.00 in three years.

The locals don't tell you that the turbine requires about a million dollars worth of repairs and a maintenance plan of $80,000.00 a year just on a new gear box and the blades may have also failed. In addition the gear box could fail again in a few short years

Wind turbine repairs over one million ! Here are the facts : Over one million

Page 19 table 2 :

Subtotal, gearbox replacement cost (non-recurring)$695,200.00

Page 20 : Three wind turbine blades at $100,000.00 each = $300,000.00

BLADES
The LM 34.5 blades are identical to blades used on other 1.5 MW wind turbines, which have had a history of manufacturing defects and remediation for limited portions of the production run approximately around the time the Portsmouth blades were manufactured. Portsmouth should contact LM as soon as practical for a blade inspection and serial number check against blade serial numbers with known manufacturing errors.

http://www.portsmouthri.com/documents/Turbine_Gearbox.pdf

I just heard from an unimpeachable sourse in Bristol: The Turbine Tower itself is deteriating at an Alarming Rate: RUST.....

Yea Yea Yea..This is getting STUPID. BILL I have recently been your supporter...WHAT ARE you doing......?? Never mind. Don't answer...

Just take this down already!!!!

The DEMOCRATS Now in charge will FIX the Turine...and RUN the the Town a Half Million Dollar "Turbine DEFICIT" Every year from now on. The turbine IS Nice to look at when it's running...

Why Portsmouth is trying to keep this alive is a mystery. When a patient is beyond recovery the doctors will sit down with the Family and get them ready for the worst.

Every day this thing sits still without spinning the bond payments continue.

Mistake # 1 buying the wind turbine. AAER Inc had been building 1.65 Megawatt turbines prior to 2008. When the town of Portsmouth put out a bid for a 1.5 Megawatt turbine (under 3 million) the Canadian company AAER came out with an optimized version of the A-1650 type turbine. The turbine built for Portsmouth is one of only a few. One important fact is that the blades of the turbine are 7 feet longer than what they should be . The Portsmouth turbine is a mongrel made up of parts from two types of turbines 1.5 MW and 1.65 MW .

It was built for the three million dollar bid and the town got the cheap turbine they bid for !

http://www.ecoreporter.de/Nachrichten-Anzeige.47.0.html?&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[pointer]=326&tx_ttnews[year]=2007&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=20038&tx_ttnews[backPid]=15&tx_ttnews[sViewPointer]=0&cHash=86075a34fb

29.03.2007 Adhoc-Meldungen
29.3.2007: Meldung: AAER - Correction to news releases regarding Fuhrländer

Wind power…Alleged that it’s sustainable … it burns no fossil fuels…it produces no air pollution. What’s more, it cuts down dependency on foreign oil, all untrue!. That’s what the people of Meredith, in upstate New York first thought when a wind developer looked to supplement the rural farm town’s failing economy with a farm of their own -- that of 40 industrial wind turbines. WINDFALL, a beautifully photographed feature length film, documents how this proposal divides Meredith’s residents as they fight over the future of their community. Attracted at first to the financial incentives that would seemingly boost their dying economy, a group of townspeople grow increasingly alarmed as they discover the impacts that the 400-foot high windmills slated for Meredith could bring to their community as well as the potential for financial scams. With wind development in the United States growing annually at 39 percent, WINDFALL is an eye-opener that should be required viewing for anyone concerned about the environment and the future of renewable energy.
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Windfall/70155482?locale=en-US&mqso=80030196&mkwid=sCBd7F4jS&gclid=CIGB2d2F6bMCFYN_QgodpCwAhQ
Exposing the downside of wind turbines, director Laura Israel's illuminating documentary underlines the harmful facets of harnessing wind power, including the constant noise and potential for financial opportunism.

another netflix Carbon Nation
2010NR1hr 22m

Average of 33,891 ratings:
3.8 stars

Bypassing politics and fingerpointing, this forward-thinking documentary zeroes in on enterprising individuals -- from a wind farmer to a solar-panel retrofitter -- who are devising business-minded ways to avert the looming climate crisis. The cross-country expedition yields encounters with Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson, Earth Day founder Denis Hayes and former CIA director James Woolsey, along with everyday pioneers in low-carbon living.

Good solutions are always welcome. People not knowing the true causes of things is not. Watch HAARP:Holes In Heaven. Also watch Aerosol Crimes. The patent holder of HAARP Dr. Bernard Eastland openly says in this documentary that HAARP can manipulate the weather. Manipulate or modify not make.

The radicals are taking over the environmental movement. Yes, as a political weapon & a political cult of true believers aka useful fools enable a looting of the public treasury..

Navy plan
for turbines
concerns
U.S. agency
‘In view of the
challenges of high visibility
turbines in
this sensitive location,
it is incumbent on
the Navy to consider
alternatives to land
wind turbines that
might achieve the goal
of reducing energy
consumption.’

Representatives from Portsmouth,Rhode Island in the last three years spent many hours going to cities and towns of Massachusetts and Rhode Island telling locals and politicians the benefit of commercial wind. These cities and towns need to be notified about the ongoing wind turbine fiasco in Portsmouth.

The same representatives need to reach out to all the communities today and tell the real truth about commercial wind and what a colossal failure happened in Portsmouth.

Local Portsmouth officials claim the town owned AAER 1.5 MW wind turbine business failure had come as a surprise. The Town of Portsmouth spent years looking at brand name wind turbines like GE and Furlander .They spent almost four years figuring out if they should buy a small 660 Kilowatt turbine like the Abbey or go with a larger 1.65 Megawatt turbine.After four years of so called "Due Diligence" they went out and bought a mongrel 1.5 Megawatt turbine from a start up commercial wind turbine company ! Why ? because it was cheap and they were deceived by the wind industry !

The wind industry is a bunco scheme looting the taxpayers every day !

“Bill Carson”
Good golly man! I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a naysayer quite as negative as you. I mean yeah…the Portsmouth WTG has some problems. Maybe wind-generated electricity in general may have some problems. But that doesn’t mean we can’t, or shouldn’t, strive to overcome them and perfect the process. Do you think other forms of electrical generation were perfect on first attempt? Of course they weren’t. Nuclear, hydro, solar, etc. all had to return to the drawing board. Like any form of energy generation, it took time to perfect those methods. You appear to have a broad understanding of the wind-generated electricity industry. Maybe instead of being such a proponent of complaining about some setbacks you could actually make some constructive suggestions to make it work. I had a CO in the military that would often say: “Don’t tell me why I can’t. Tell me how I can.” Imagine if after one failure at flight the Wright Brothers would have given up. Lighten up Bill.

The new Town Council gets Sworn In tonight.