Meretricious: Plausibly significant but actually false and insincere; specious. Also, pretentious, deceptively pleasing but intrinsically rotten. From the Latin
meretrix: a prostitute.
Meretricity: 1. Electricity produced by meretricious machines that seek to convert wind energy into modern power. 2. Electricity subsidized by meretricious politics. See also oxymoron, since wind technology cannot, of itself, produce modern power, and crony capitalism, since wind subsides could not exist without it.
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By Tim Sakahara
KAHUKU (Hawaii News Now) –
The fire at the Kahuku wind farm is contained but environmental concerns within the community have spread including to the North Shore where First Wind is building another win ...
By Clyde MacDonald, Special to the Bangor Daily News
July 30, 2012
Our three Penobscot County Commissioners made an astute decision today when they decided to defer action on whether to grant an advance tax increment financing deal to the wind ...
SUNDAY, APRIL 01, 2012
A recent wind turbine fire in Germany exposes the risk of constructing wind farms in drylands and wild lands subject to wildfire. The image below of a turbine explosion and fire in Scotland, illustrates the danger.
And now we ...
With the politically declared objective to support renewable energy sources and to increase their share in the overall energy supply significantly, wind turbines have developed rapidly over the last few years. In addition to the expansion of location ...
August 25, 2012
Credit: By Miriam Raftery | East County Magazine | eastcountymagazine.org
http://www.syris.com.au/syrenew/index.php/renewerg/39-wind/99-turbines-in-bushfire-prone-regions
The San Diego Democratic Central Committee this week passed a ...
By Miriam Raftery
http://eastcountymagazine.org/node/10673
“This will impede firefighting efforts to a frightening degree…a wind-drive fire is not going to stay in the backcountry. We must not roll the dice…There are other, safer alternatives… ...
The answer is pretty clear when it comes to fires that make the
headlines; impressive videos of fires burning out of control, toxic black smoke
filling the sky, burning turbine blades, and other parts shooting through the…