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GREEN HOME SHOW #3: Renewable Energy News: Part 1 The State of Delaware and wind power
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Music & Introduction (Paul) - 2:30
Introduction -Welcome to our third show maybe your first, but our third ..we are starting to get the hang of This, I think .so... who are we? Well let's see... ... ..
My friend and researcher extraordinaire, is my very talented and ever so humble buddy Doug Hunt .Practitioner and stat boy and now... avid environmentalist.
I am Paul Hughes . a guy just like you who is concerned about the condition of our Planet and I want to do something to help .
I have a working and educational background in the Green field and I want to make a difference. So we are providing a weekly place where people can get helpful Green information and up to date green News. Please write in and make it your show also Mostly we are educating ourselves and trying like you, to make the necessary personal changes .recycling is my next challenge, or more to the point remembering to recycle...
Oh Yes . I need to finish replacing all of my light bulbs with low mercury fluorescents, well any way...
We are also Clear Channel radio at WILM 1450 am, which has been committed to this project from the start and who remain a steadfast partner in our quest to reduce our energy consumption, and pollution.
We'll try to blend in a little humor to keep things fun, but pay attention there is a moral and a solution in every story we present
We will do our best to entertain and educate as we all move forward and adjust our lives to better our lives and the future of our planet. Good luck, keep listening, remember every situation is different and the playing field is changing all the time ... ..
Remember... ... Doing something, anything, no matter how small ALWAYS COUNTS
Each week we are visited by guests and the show has many educational characters, such as The Green Fox, On Location with Cletus ( what is he Doug? ), Trash Man and Solar dog, Strange and Great Moments in Green History, Sister Mary Green, and Others. Follow their adventures and mis-capades each week .
And all of this is made possible by our dedicated Sponsors... ... .
Thank sponsors - Suntrust Mortgage, CMI Electric & Energy Services Group and
Myecoagent.com and of course Mark Unruh for such great music
So let's get to this weeks show
Today's guest(s) - Governor Russell Peterson we are so very happy to have this
visionary here. He has a lot of insight into our past, present and future. His credentials go far beyond his tenure as Delaware's Governor and we're honored to have him as our guest. We will be asking him to speak to several different topics we think you will enjoy.
Today's show topic or theme - Delaware's Environmental Challenges 2007. Changing energy policy, Global warming, Wind Turbines, etc and what we can do to help
So Thanks again for joining us. Keep doing what your doing , fixing brunch, cleaning the house, recovering from Point To Point , but keep a pen and paper close by for helpful info and Web addresses
Today's Green Update (Paul) - 2:30 Sponsored by: SunTrust Mortgage
- One of the knocks on wind power has been its affect on birds and other flying mammals Bats They get caught or collide with the wind turbine blades ...So I decide to do a little research as I was curious to know a bit more about the stats so
- Birds and Bats Face daily threats more deadly than wind .
- 500 million killed annually in US alone from collisions with Buildings, cars, communications towers, homes, power lines, pesticides, etc Didn't know we had that many birds on the whole planet.
- Steps to Minimize = Not in Flight Path, Minimize Tension wires, power lines go underground or in our case here in Delaware underwater ..
- New Blade Designs are minimizing bird deaths
- Placed on already disturbed land... .Farms, wastewater facilities, etc..
- John Flicker President of the National Audubon Society says You can't count the carcasses from the pollution from Coal and Gas Burning Furnaces... and if we let Global warming accelerate we will lose many more species .
- For Every 10,000 birds killed by human activities, wind turbines account for only one death
- Pretty interesting statistics and food for thought ..which leads us into our next SEGMENT .
On Location w/ Cleatus (Doug & Paul) - 4:00 sponsored by CMI Electric
This week's On Location segment has us in Atlantic City, New Jersey where we are investigating the Wind Mills near the Atlantic City Boardwalk. To bring you more on this story we go to Cletus T. Beaumont, our Forensic Road kill Pathologist who's on location in Atlantic City. Professor?
Well Hello there Doug, can you hear me? I'm not sure how long we can milk this Road Kill theme, but we're safe, at least for today. I'm standin' below these 5 eeenormous Wind Mills here in Atlantic City and believe it or not, I can have a normal conversation well, as normal as a Roadkill Patholoigist can have. These Wind Turbines are quieter than a moment of silence at a funeral, and thank God ‘cause we went out last night and I'm a tad hungover and I just don't think I could take a lot of noise this mornin'. I don't want to elaborate any more than that except to say "what happens in A.C. needs to take a flight to Vegas to die";. Anyway you just gotta see how these beautiful generators work.
Professor? Tell me what exactly are you researching?
Well late last night I was researching the Black Jack Table and a waitress named Daphne. Did you know there are 52 Cards in a deck if you take out the Jokers? I don't think it's a coincidence that there are also 52 weeks in the year .
Professor, what research are you doing for us? You know the large turbines in A.C.?
Doug, you can wear any kinda head coverin' you want here. They don't discriminate at the Taj Mahal. I've seen Pink baseball caps, yamakas, hondakas, cowboy hats, bowlers and yes, even turbans ..
I'm sorry Professor I meant wind TurBines.
Oh, I'm researching the effect of the windmills on the birds and bats that come through here. You know, these new turbines they're makin' now are taller and the blades move slower and are less harmful to the airborn critters. Frankly I'm a little disappointed ‘cause I haven't found many dead critters to study. I am a Roadkill Pathologist afterall. Only found one and it was one a them French Canada geese that musta got lost. Anyway, this particular windfield that's what we call a collection of these windmills used to generate power this windfield is built on the grounds of a wastewater treatment plant. This land was already in use and is not a "nature habitat"; or "flyway"; as such. It's not like this was a place where all the seagulls would come to hang out, although I did have some fried seagull last nite and you know it tastes just like chicken ‘cept saltier. And this seagull wadn't killed by the turbines. I actually found it stuck in the grill of one of them new electric hybrid cars. In fact I used the car's batteries to cook the bird. Didn't know you could do that did ya? Sort of like a mobile microwave
Professor, please, tell us about the turbines?
Well Doug, they have 5 turbines at this facility, producing enough electricty to meet 35 to 60% of the power needs of the Waste Water Treatment plant. I figured putting these large turbines on the wastewater treatment grounds was going to be like putting a big fan behind your toilet, but it ain't bad. By puttin' the windmills here, they've also reduced the number of flyway deaths. They do tests with radar and visual observation and such to make sure we don't take out too many of our wing-ed friends. And it sure takes a lot less time to build these suckers than a coal fired power plant.
How big are these things Professor?
These babies are tall, 397 ft tall. I mean this has actually become a tourist attraction here in AC they have tours just for people to come see these large windmills. It's quite impressive. Only problem is summa the people are bettin' on ‘em like they was roulette wheels only they never stop spinnin'.
Professor, was there any reason why that particular location was chosen? I mean beside the fact that it was already being used for something else?
Well Doug, it's pretty windy here you know Windmills need a minimum average wind speed of at least 10 to 13 miles an hour to make wind power payoff. Wind speeds are broken into classes 1 through 7. 10 to 13 miles per hour is considered a class 3. Down here we're somewhere between a class 3 and a class 4. Not everywhere is good for wind power, even if it might seem windy. Mostly windmills have to be placed in the mountains and coastal areas, but also in the great plains of the mid-west. Ah, the mid-west. Kinda reminds me of the time I was cooking some up some squirrel stew back home in Kansas. The squirrel was a little tough so I
Thank you professor. For more information on Wind Power, you can go to awea.com or to windenergy.com. We'll be right back after this commercial break. Don't go away.
