Windpower = Jobs
My friend anon wrote me and pointed out a great article about windpower jobs. The bottom line of the article is that Windpower techs are in great demand and that wind companies are literally being banned from training classrooms because they are offering the students jobs before they graduate.
What does this mean to Delaware? It means that we could be the home of highly sought-after technicians and our schools, like DelTech, can become places that windpower companies come a-trolling for talent. If only Charlie Copeland would say the word…
Tags: Energy and the Environment, The Economy, windpower jobs copeland Delaware energy
Making Delaware a hub to compete on regional markets! If we do that we are going to dominate the region. Then we create the basis for future reserach and have a centralized system through windfarms and our power companies and push for the decentralized program to move ahead and open the markets up to citizens so they can make energy and make money. Stage one is to get the centralized portion through, stage 2 is to get a power company to embrak on the democratization of power production so everybody makes money.
Stage three is we dominate the regional markets and make money for our state and for ourselves. Stage 4 is we branch out into regional markets and beyond with our home grown technology.
I hope this gets through so we can use our non-renewable energy wisely create new sources and gain a foothold in the regional markets.
This is the kung fu of energy development and production. We better do this and start thinking about the future of our state and how we are going to compete on the markets.
Great idea. Let’s get rid of these Bluewater carpetbaggers and make this a state funded initiative.
If you disagree, then you are clearly corrupt.
hahaha. It can be both.
As long as it operates for the benefit of the citizens and that is made clear in any grant we give them.
We need the inital private investment and technology to get started. And we want to be fair so that everyone gets a share of profits. But it would be a quantum change to think of all of our interests instead of only a minority interest position.
Anyone who does not buy it, read John Nash. (before he went crazy he was a brilliant economist his PhD. was on this.)
This system of economics….
When Willet Kempton first presented the wind farm proposal at a PDD meeting, he envisioned a public-private for profit large farm that would reap millions for Delawarens.
Like the new dam in China that will deliver the same amount of electricity as 13 nuclear power plants, we should be going back to the drawing board with wind for Delaware.
During this week’s hearings, the focus should be about how to put together a better deal for the rate payer.
The cynic in me is wondering if opening it up like you say is something that McDowell would favor?
Nancy,
That is called the centralized portion of the plan.
We have got to get them to support it it is a matter of extreme importance. We may not realize it but it is a matter of dimishing resources and economic self destruction or the development of a sustainable and expandable system. I do not know if you guys know how the world has leap frogged ahead of us in this area, but I do.
Once that is done, we need to move to decentralized with solar, ethanol, bio-diseal, and soy or invest in surgar cane ethanol in Brazil. This way we encourge individuals who farm to farm, individuals who own homes to have solar on their homes, individuals who are entreprenurs in a local sense to rent rooftops, and sell enegry back to the grid. This is how China does it; it combines elements of a central system with a very strong element of local free market capitalism. It comes directly from Nash’s revision of Adam Smith. You can see how he developed this in the movie a beautiful mind.
But we have to do this as a state and do it on our own. If we do our policies reflect the new reality we live in and our state and people move upwards and outwards and not so parochial and down on both the econmic scale and social scale in relation to Pennsylvania or Maryland who will do this. If one of them gets this benefit faster then we do, we might as well turn off the lights and shut the windows at the state house becuase they are going to control our power sources for the next two centuries or so. I am hoping our legislators can think past the minority interst and reach toward a majority interest; this way we begin a period of enlightenment in energy development and we do not displace anyone. Delaware has a strong tradition of doing this. Please if you are out there and reading this, send anyone -who may not be supportive of this – my explanation and discussions and let them know this is absolutely critical for Delaware to develop a real competitive energy strategy for the 21st century.
Jason, where you there when Willet presented?
Have you been following the process?
This is not about getting in the way of the wind farm. It is about the future potential that is there for us.
I am not going to blame you for jumping on the bandwagon that I am a tool but you probably have a gut feeling that I speak truth to power, even if it is the power that the lefty blogosphere is mustering to force this particular scenario through.
We need to get rid of the back up plant that is mucking up the deal and we need to open it up so that the farm can grow to the maximal size. We also should address that all of Delaware utility customers who will benefit will pay into this.
We need to get more federal and state $$ invested too.
I look at the bigger picture and I see a better deal than what was tacked together in secret, you don’t?
Brian,
I am not advocating the great dam in China, particularly (there are huge horror stories attached to it) but was pointing it out for the value of this sort of infrastructure that is government driven.
Why didn’t a single congressional rep advocate for our wind farm for this year’s energy bill?
We need wind pork not nuke pork.
We need to squelch the Delmarva lock on our future and I don’t trust ANY of these players to do this right if it isn’t open. I hope all of you all who want to criticize me will get down to Dover and keep your eyes and mouths open where it counts. Walk the walk.
Hi Nancy,
I want to make it clear that the plan listed above will turn our state into producers. If we follow it, I promise youwe all win. I have seen it work and transform whole communites. It makes sense and it works well, everybody profits and it everbody stands to gain from it. If we adopt it we are going to be fine, if not, well we will stagger along for a while, but not very long and then we will have a real crisis. I have actually seen both occur. I would prefer our state to take the former course rather than having to shut the lights off in the state house becuase we cannot afford the bills.
Please continue to walk the walk. And please make this appeal to John to Jack and to anyone else who will listen; I do not want this state I love so much to fall into that situation.
I didn’t ask for the hearings. I understand that most of the GA wanted them.
Is it delay? I can’t answer that. But since it is what it is, we must use the hearings to vet the entire scope of what can be done for DE.
Thank god it is an election year.
Get some alternate candidates ready, people. And start a wind farm PAC. The money will do the talking.
Dear Nancy,
Please ask them for one thing: Faster Please. Before we begin the shut down electricity for the poor and middle classes as well as state functions. I have seen this happen before it is not pleasent.
Most of the GA did not ask for these hearings.
I thought I would try and bring this thread back to liberalgeeks’ orignal point with another example of John Carney’s hard work to try and get this sucker done.
Wind power firm offers partnership with Del Tech.
liberalgeek – if I didn’t know better, I’d say Carney reads your posts.
I was thinking the same thing…
Yeah, what a hero JC is, fighting for something 90 percent of the public wants. Only 90 percent of the public wants it.
As long as we’re on math, with all due respect, Nancy, I’ve been unable to find a single legislator beyond McDowell and perhaps a nameless other or two who wants these hearings. Gilligan all but said that yesterday with Rick Jensen. McDowell doesn’t even have the gonads to admit it. Sorry, but this is why his head belongs on a pike — he’s a coward as well as a liar.