Wind Turbines Are Beautiful

From another popular news site: “Paris – Wind is the fastest growing renewable energy in Europe – making up a third of new energy here, with 20 turbines added every working day in 2008, according to EU statistics. What the European wind energy industry now wants is to expand – offshore. Ocean winds are a stronger and more predictable form of energy than the ones on land, and the industry is pushing a $57 billion investment to allow broad-winged turbines to spin at sea. Offshore turbines are also seen as a solution to complaints from Europeans who do not want the gargantuan turbines in their backyards. Complaints that the turbines ruin ocean views have slowed US efforts to get a project started off the coast of Massachusetts. The US has virtually no offshore wind energy, though the Obama administration has started to work on the issue.” My own opinion is that turbines actually decorate the ocean. I think they look cool coming out of the water. Just be careful that you don’t smack your boat against one of the pylons.

Wind Farms

It's Saturday but, so what. We can still talk on a Saturday and we can most certainly write also. Just to give you an example of the energy behind numbers. Take NCEN (Nacel Energy Corp), for example. This is a company that deals in harnessing wind power, like National Wind (boy, what a name!!!!) The stock was at $4.60 back in May. Then it took a steep dive (actually, more of a roller coaster ride) down to fifty cents in August. Now it's at $1.37, as of Friday. Had I purchased 50,000 shares sometime in August, I would have profited about $40,000 as of Monday morning. However, that's the trouble with penny stocks - very high volatility because of investors wanting to make a quick profit. Be careful where you park your money. Be conservative, unless you're the type that can take a hit and move on. I'm not. By the way, that's Hans Rosenfeld on the left, with one of his robots. I think it's battery powered.

Environmental Me

I'm not a green person - not even close. I waste water, electricity, gasoline, and natural gas. I don't recyle. I litter the streets with gum wrappers. I don't care about endangered species. I never discuss the environment with anyone. However, there is this company called National Wind, LLC (don't laugh, it's true), that generates power using huge windmills. I think this may be the answer to the energy shortage and our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. I just wish they had come up with a more serious-sounding name. That's not a wind farm to the left - but it could be.

Kennedy

I picked this up from an investment newsletter I get on a regular basis, although it had already made the news a few months back. Politics as usual....

Voters in Massachusetts have expressed overwhelming support for an energy-producing wind farm project that has been opposed by Sen. Ted Kennedy. The Cape Wind Project would erect 130 windmills in Nantucket Sound, off the coast of Massachusetts, and could provide three-fourths of the power needed by Cape Cod and nearby islands, which is now largely supplied by coal-fired plantsThe Cape Wind Project has been "frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included," wrote columnist Froma Harrop, who is on the staff of the Providence Journal. A book by Peter Schweizer, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy," also disclosed Kennedy’s efforts to torpedo the wind farm. "The Cape Wind Project would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis," Schweizer explained."The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn't be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family's favorite sailing and yachting areas."
– NewsMax

That's not the Kennedy castle on the left - it's an old European castle with a huge, protective moat around it. The Kennedys don't need a moat, they have something a lot better - friends in very high places.