Charles Komanoff

Wind Power: The Anti-Fossil Fuel

Mercifully brief PowerPoint (just 5 slides) summarizing data and policy issues pertaining to U.S. wind power. Presented at May 2012 panel discussion on offshore (Atlantic Coast) wind power.

Non-technical paper rebutting notion that wind turbines displace little or no fossil fuels, April, 2009

"Whither Wind? A Journey Through the Heated Debate Over Wind Power," feature article in Orion Magazine (Sept/Oct 2006)

Letter to prominent academician and NY Times anti-wind blogger Stanley Fish, Sept. 2007

Op-ed, "In The Wind" (pondering an Adirondacks wind project through David Brower's eyes) (Albany Times Union, Sept. 18, 2005)

"Bixby's Landing" (the Robinson Jeffers poem excerpted in the Albany Times Union op-ed)

Op-ed, "Wind power's benefits outweigh risks to scenery" (Hill Country Observer, 2005)

Op-ed, "Wind Power Works" (Berkshire Eagle, Jan. 8, 2005)

Op-ed, "Wind Power Must Be Visible" (Providence Journal, June 6, 2003)

Open letter #1 to environmentalists on behalf of the Cape Wind project, Dec. 2002

Open letter #2 to environmentalists on behalf of the Cape Wind project, Jan. 2003

Letter to Riverkeeper director Alex Matthiessen, decrying Riverkeeper founder Robert F. Kennedy Jr's obstruction of wind power projects, May 2003

Correspondence w/ prominent windpower opponent Eleanor Tillinghast, in which she refuses to support her claim that wind turbines will not reduce fossil fuel dependence, Fall 2004 (PDF)