SAPL has partnered with a firm providing DC/AC Plug-Out Inverter Kits for hybrids. A cable
connection is installed on the car’s Lithium battery pack, and the homeowner (or electrician)
installs a similar connector on the outside of the home. The other end of that cable connects
to the inverter in the garage or cellar, which is then wired to a Transfer Switch that is wired
to the desired circuit breakers at the main electrical panel. When the utility power goes out,
homeowner simply connects the cable between the car and the house, starts the car leaving
it in Park, pushes the “ON” switch at the inverter, and flips the main Transfer Switch from the
utility feed side to the car/generator feed side. The car turns on/off as power is needed.

My Prius Hybrid now powers my
home when we have a power outage.
Call SAPL for details 603-431-5089.
Total cost: Approx. $2,100

Inverter units can be portable for:
Power during a camping trip
Running power equipment at a job site
A portable PA system
A portable music concert amplification
system
Portable life-support systems
Remote environmental monitoring
equipment
3,000
Watt
(3KV)
Unit
Larger/smaller
Units Available

Your call will be returned
www.saplnh.org
E-mail: herb.moyer@comcast.net
Decentralized Power for All
PO Box 1136
Portsmouth, NH 03802
Phone: 603-431-5089

Leadership for a healthy planet and a safer world

Wind power coming close to fruition
By Jennifer Keefe
Special to the Sunday Citizen
Sunday, February 24, 2013
DOVER — Imagine powering the entire state of Maine without
using fossil fuels.

A 61-foot prototype for an offshore wind farm planned for the waters off the coast of Maine sits outside the Offshore Wind Laboratory at the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. It is slated to be placed at its offshore test site in May. Courtesy photo

Two pilot projects are working toward doing just that with offshore wind farms, projects that could result in a whole new industry for the Pine Tree State.

“In the U.S., we have a large offshore wind resource,” said Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center. “There’s about 4,000 gigawatts offshore — that’s enough to power the U.S. four times over.”

Dagher has been working on a prototype for an offshore wind farm for five years.

According to Dagher, there are 156 gigawatts just 50 miles off Maine’s shore, which is equal to 156 nuclear power plants. It takes 2.4 gigawatts to power the entire state.

And a major development in the university’s project is taking place in just a few months.

A fabrication of the turbine unit will be completed in April and towed from the Penobscot River to a test site off the coast of Maine in May. There, it will be anchored by pre-existing mooring lines.

This prototype, called VolturnUS, is about 61 feet high, Dagher said, and will be used to test the floating wind technology.

“If all goes well, this will be the first offshore wind turbine in the U.S.,” he said.

A separate pilot project called Hywind Maine, led by Norwegian energy company Statoil, is planned for federal waters off the coast of Boothbay Harbor.

This project just cleared a major hurdle with recent approval by the Maine Public Utilities Commission to support the project and provide an above-market rate.

Patrick Woodcock, director of Gov. Paul LePage’s Energy Office, said the PUC vote was a “significant decision,” but the governor’s office has consistently expressed concern about these projects increasing energy costs.

“We have concerns about the rate impact on electricity bills,” Woodcock said, adding the plan is also “vague” about the economic benefits brought into Maine from the developer.

Statoil has established a relationship with UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center.

Both projects have received about $4 million in funding from the Department of Energy, having been chosen among seven out of more than 70 applicants in a DOE competition for advanced technology for offshore wind.

The DOE will pick three out of those seven to receive the remaining funding.

In 2012, LePage put a hold on bonds to rein in state borrowing, which included funding for the offshore wind project. However, Dagher said they have partners backing the project who will match the costs.

The university’s full-scale unit — slated to be in the water by 2016 — would consist of two 6-megawatt machines that would float off Monhegan Island in about 200 feet of water and be grid-connected to shore.

Dagher said the whole unit is taller than the Washington Monument, and each blade is bigger than the wingspan of a Boeing 747.

The third phase, which is slated to be up and running by 2020, would be eight turbines producing about 500 megawatts from 20 miles offshore.

And by 2030, Dagher said the goal is a full-scale wind farm of about 170 turbines that would supply a total of about 5 gigawatts to the state of Maine.

“That could be used to put on grid in New England, throughout the region,” he said.

He said a cost-effective wind farm would keep electricity prices at about 10 cents per kilowatt hour by 2020.

He said the process is a “walk before you run” approach, but the overall intent is to greatly reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

“We want to keep some dollars in Maine by using our own resources,” Dagher said, noting the high costs of gas and heating oil. “We have no control over the cost of that energy over the long run. You can see why we’re looking at ways to cost effectively bring this energy back to shore.”

He said the energy could be used “in a variety of ways,” but the intent is to heat homes, or provide electricity for electric cars.

“Our goal here is to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and help stabilize these prices over the long run,” Dagher said. “These are very volatile prices. By diversifying energy infrastructure in the region, we’ll reduce costs in the long run. The New England region is very dependent on natural gas for electricity, but when you’re so dependent on one resource, you’re exposing the region to the danger of price increases or that resource becoming obsolete.”

He said more than 98 percent of the 2,500 residents who responded to a survey conducted by the University of Maine about the project were in support of deepwater offshore wind farms that are not visible from the shore.

1 Liberty Lane East, Hampton, New Hampshire 03106

Wednesday, September 26th at 6:30 PM
Portsmouth Public Library – Levenson Room, 175 Parrott Ave. (near the Portsmouth Middle School)

This is the last film in  the “Nuclear Dangers – Past, Present, and Future” film series sponsored by the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League (SAPL) and will feature audience discussion after the film.  It is free and open to the public.

The film has particular relevance for New Hampshire residents, since with the demise of the Yucca Mountain repository project in Nevada, a “plan B” approach could involve a granite formation repository, as was previously explored 27 years ago in Hillsborough, NH and in Maine.  The Seabrook plant has generated over 500 tons of highly radioactive spent fuel so far, all of which is stored on site.

For more information, contact SAPL at 603-431-5089 or visit their website: www.saplnh.org

The last film in SAPL’s “Nuclear Dangers” film series

MORE ON THE FILM:
Into Eternity is the first feature documentary to explore the mind-boggling scientific and philosophical questions long-term nuclear waste storage poses. Structured as a message to future generations, the film focuses on the Onkalo waste repository now under construction in Finland, one of the first underground storage facilities. Onkalo is a gigantic network of tunnels being carved out of bedrock that will start receiving Finland’s nuclear waste in 2020. Once the repository is full, in about 100 years, it will be closed and hopefully remain sealed for at least 100,000 years.  Into Eternity takes viewers deep into the Onkalo facility as it is being constructed and asks Onkalo representatives, scientists, theologians and others to address fundamental but challenging questions.

REVIEWS

“CRITICS’ PICK. I am tempted to call Into Eternity the most interesting documentary, and one of the most disturbing films, of the year so far… the way the movie and the people in it express their concern gives it a feeling of sublimity unusual in most environmentalist documentaries.”
- A.O. Scott, New York Times

“It might seem crazy, if not criminal, to obligate 3,000 future generations of humans to take care of our poisonous waste just so that we can continue running our electric toothbrushes. But it’s already too late to wave off the nuclear age, and Mr. Madsen’s film comes at a perfect time to join a worldwide conversation about what to do with its ashes.”
- Dennis Overbye, Science Reporter, New York Times

“Excellent. The haunting Into Eternity…is a rare hybrid: an information-packed documentary crossed with an existential art film. In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year.”
- San Francisco Chronicle

“Tackles a subject almost beyond comprehension …. one of the most extraordinary factual films to be shown this year. Why isn’t every government, every philosopher, every theologian, everywhere in the world discussing Onkalo and its implications?”
- Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian (UK)

“Recommended. What animates the film is the other worldliness of the under-construction project, and the paradoxes the finished Onkalo will embody. If Onkalo succeeds, it will become the longest-lasting product of contemporary civilization – which it might very well outlive.”
- Mark Jenkins, NPR.org

AWARDS & SCREENINGS

Grand Prize, Paris Int’l Environmental Film Festival (FIFE)
Grand Prize, Vision Du Reel – Nyon
Green Screen Award, IDFA, Amsterdam

Official Selection
Tribeca Film Festival
San Francisco Green Festival

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Extent of Concrete Degradation At Seabrook Unknown.pdf

“Knocking on The Devil’s Door – Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy”

(this film replaces the planned new film “The Atomic States of America”-not yet released)

September 12, 2012 6pm-8pm at the new Kingston Public Library; 169 Main Street Kingston, NH 03848
(603) 642-3521 www.kingston-library.org

A Detailed, Factual Indictment Of The Nuclear Industry And Nuclear Power

There were Three Major Unanswered Questions About Nuclear Power in the 1950’s:

1. Can we guarantee that there will not be a major accident and a meltdown of a reactor ?
2. Is there a guarantee that the low level  radiations that come out of these reactors are harmless ?
3. Do we have a way to deal with deadly nuclear waste ?

The answers to these three questions is still “NO”

Come to the free film showing and learn about the following:

Corruption within the nuclear industry; major corporations convicted of fraud and other illegal acts, but continue to be allowed to receive taxpayer subsidy guarantees to build new nuclear facilities

The truth about the health effects upon people caused by the radiation releases from the accidents at Three-Mile-Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.

The continuing worldwide threat posed by the radioactive spent fuel pools at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants

The present availability of alternative energy technologies to replace much of the installed nuclear base in the world

The conspiracy to suppress evidence of the dangers of nuclear radiation and the effects of the major nuclear accidents that have happened so far

The fallacy of a “clean” nuclear industry poised to save us from global warming

Corporate media lies about the nuclear industry, nuclear plant safety, and the harmlessness of nuclear radiation

The fact that the nuclear industry has spent close to $100 Billion on nuclear plants that have never operated for a single day.

The biological effects of different types of radiation

Depleted Uranium dust from Desert Storm 1 that is causing childhood cancers, infertility and gross fetal deformities

The nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection

The nuclear threat to all life on this planet

The Nuclearization and weaponization of outer space

The fact that Hopelessness in the population is viewed as a corporate asset

The nuclearization of our Democracy

The fallacy of our “Atoms for Peace” program

The “Nuclear Pinocchios” of the media industry

The public impact of activist opposition on the nuclear industry

The nuclear industry isn’t even built on the crumbling concrete such as is found at the Seabrook “nuke”; it is built upon lies

These are some of the experts interviewed in the film:

Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Nuclear Physics, CUNY

Ernest J. Sternglass, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus – University of Pittsburgh, Director of the Radiation and Public Health Project

Dr. Helen Caldicott, Pediatrician & Founding President of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute

Harvey Wasserman, Activist and Author of Solartopia! Our Green-Powered Earth

Dr. Vandana Shiva, Nuclear Physicist

Dr. Alexey Yablokov; his study determined that almost 1 million people have died as a result of the Chernobyl accident

Greg Palast, Investigative Reporter of Corporate Crimes & Racketeering in the nuclear industry

Kevin Kamps, Radioactive Waste Specialist, Beyond Nuclear

Aileen Mioko Smith, Exec. Dir. Green Action “Japan”

Karl Grossman, Author and Journalism Professor, SUNY

Ryan Alexander, President – Taxpayers for Common Sense

Joseph Mangano, National Coordinator – Radiation and Public Health Project

Dr. Janet Sherman, MD – Chernobyl Toxicologist, Radiation and Public Health Project

Cindy Folkers, Radiation & Health Specialist – Beyond Nuclear

Dr. Alice Stewart, whose studies in the 1950’s, discovered that medical X-Rays of pregnant women were a cause of childhood Leukemia

Dr. Chris Busby, European Committee of Radiation Risks

William “Trey” Taylor, President Verdant Power, Marine Renewable Energy