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Local employers to buy wind power (Ithaca barf alert)
Ithaca Journal ^
| Wednesday, August 7, 2002
| By VICTORIA E. FREILE
Posted on 08/07/2002 4:57:56 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ITHACA -- Ecological responsibility and leadership has always been part of GreenStar Cooperative Market's stated mission.
So when GreenStar heard about the opportunity to partially power the grocery store with wind-generated electricity, market general manager Patrice Jennings said store owners did not hesitate to sign on to a wind power program offered by New York State Electric & Gas and Community Energy Inc.
(Excerpt) Read more at theithacajournal.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: energylist; geneva; greenstar; hobart; ithacais; thecityofevil; windpower
Ecological responsibility and leadership has always been part of GreenStar Cooperative Market's stated mission...But apparently not economic efficientcy.
Only in Ithaca, the City of Evil, would a business brag about spending money needlessly.
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To: X-USAF; governsleastgovernsbest; LibKill; gaspar; bentfeather; NativeNewYorker; drjimmy; Atticus; ..
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
To use wind energy will cost GreenStar $3,100 extra per year TRANSLATE: 'To use wind energy will cost GreenStar's customers $3,100 extra per year.'
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hobart and William Smith Colleges, the first college in New York to incorporate wind power as an energy source on campus, plans to use 441,000 kilowatt hours of wind-power per year, about $50,000 of wind energy, not including the additional $8,800 feeComing next, the annual round of protests against tuition hikes, fundraising letters to alumni, lobbyists descending upon Albany for more handouts...
To: Behind Liberal Lines
To be sure, there seems to be a lot of wind in Ithaca. Or at least, hot air.
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posted on
08/07/2002 5:27:41 AM PDT
by
LibKill
To: *Energy_List
*bump
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posted on
08/07/2002 5:50:08 AM PDT
by
Fixit
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I was at a Durham Bulls game last night. While waiting outside the stadium for our entire group to arrive before proceeding to our skybox a lady walked by with one of those "Ithaca Is Gorges" shirts on. As she walked past me I said "Ithaca is the City of Evil." She either didnt hear me or ignored me.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
What's so bad about this? The power company has successfully branded it's product as green and is charging a surplus for that branding. There are customers ready to buy that branding.
This is no different than any other company that works to make their products 'cool' thru branding and marketing. EG Nike commanding high prices for its tennis shoes based on branding distinctions (you will be 'cool' if you wear our shoes) rather than based on actually selling better tennis shoes.
In effect, these folks are selling 'cool' power. Not my cup of tea; but if there's a market for it, producers will find a way to make money off of it. No skin off my back.
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posted on
08/07/2002 6:11:10 AM PDT
by
ffrancone
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I think they should invite in America's number one source of wind power, Jesse Jackson. Recycling his BS could probably match the output of a typical nuclear power plant.
To: capt. norm
I think they should invite in America's number one source of wind power, Jesse Jackson. Recycling his BS could probably match the output of a typical nuclear power plant. LOL! And unlike a nuclear plant the excess bovine excrement has the added advantage of fertilizing the nearby plant life making for lush green foilage. The Greens should jump on this one. :-))
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posted on
08/07/2002 7:12:20 AM PDT
by
mc5cents
To: Phantom Lord
You
know what you should be wearing to those games...
To: ffrancone
What's so bad about this? The power company has successfully branded it's product as green and is charging a surplus for that branding. There are customers ready to buy that branding. I have no quarrel with the power company. I simply note that these idiots are willing to pay a premium for their power simply to be "politically correct."
Which seems harmless until you realize that these idiots are the same ones who have infiltrated the Ithaca government and given us idiocy like spending $500,000 to install solar panels on a publicly funded library (in cold, dark, upstate NY).
Can wind power on other taxpayer funded buildings be far away?
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I've lived here 6 years and that is the first time Ive seen someone wearing one.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
They have the gaul to say they "care about the environment," windmills kill migrating birds! What is the matter with those dummies?
"City of Evil" bump
To: martin gibson
To use wind energy will cost GreenStar $3,100 extra per year. The market plans to use wind power for 25 percent of its annual $90,000 electric bill,25% is a pretty flacid commitment.
GreenStar needs to charge their customers an extra $12,400 per year if they were really serious about this.
To: bentfeather
Go to Palm Springs and see all the lovely windmills. Actually, its not very pretty. Would you want that in your backyard, to power some city 100s of miles away?
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posted on
08/07/2002 3:42:57 PM PDT
by
virgil
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