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Gone With The Wind--Why wind power may be bad for your health
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 7-30-09 | Tait Trussell

Posted on 07/30/2009 5:16:56 AM PDT by SJackson

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I haven't a clue if this is true, but the Obama solution will be to tell them to quit whining and take one for the team. Take a couple asprin too.
1 posted on 07/30/2009 5:16:56 AM PDT by SJackson
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PETA won't allow it anyway...knocks the ell out of innocent burds flying way too close, it puts field mice in a tizzy, and squirrels get too tired climbing the base.
2 posted on 07/30/2009 5:24:13 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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One would think they would go back historically and see if Hollanders are all whacked out.


3 posted on 07/30/2009 5:28:19 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Doogle

In Kalifornistan, they call them condor cuisanarts.


4 posted on 07/30/2009 5:29:31 AM PDT by Texas resident ( Boys and Girls, it's us against them.)
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:)


5 posted on 07/30/2009 5:30:44 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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There is also the positron emission problem.

The rotational energy produced by wind turbines in instances where there is alignment along the magnetic field line induces positronic displacement into the grid. This displacement remains in the current flow until utilized.

It is dissipated into your home, especially by resistance appliances like stove eyes, toasters and hair dryers.


6 posted on 07/30/2009 5:33:12 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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But that’s what gonkulators are for. I have one attached to every window.


7 posted on 07/30/2009 5:39:37 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: Doogle

Wind power, to good to be true.


8 posted on 07/30/2009 5:50:49 AM PDT by east1234 (It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
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One would think they would go back historically and see if Hollanders are all whacked out.

You mean the country with the "red light" district on Canal Street, and the "coffee shops" that smell funny?

-PJ

9 posted on 07/30/2009 5:54:48 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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The low-frequency noise travels farther than the audible noise, up to several miles. 

Although this is true, the effects also diminish rapidly following the inverse square law, and can be driven to a minimum by lowering the decibel level at the source.

IMHO, a major part of the problem is that scientific equipment has become sufficiently sensitive to measure previously undetectable levels of "noise". This provides egghead "researchers" with the "data" to imply negative health consequences when there are none. The only real "beneficiaries" are the parasitic lawyers who clog our court system with lawsuits base on this crap.

10 posted on 07/30/2009 6:03:44 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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Saul Alinsky rules

RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2304339/posts


11 posted on 07/30/2009 6:03:48 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . fasl el-khitab)
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See this link for how wind farms mess up weather radar.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2287639/posts


12 posted on 07/30/2009 6:17:36 AM PDT by blf1776 (Peepole, Peepole who need Peepole, are the luckiest Peepole in the world)
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"Noise from windmills has been compared with the low thuds of base notes from music,"

Very interesting article. But music has "bass" notes, not "base" notes. (Although as the father of ten year old who makes me listen to her favorite radio station in the car, there is a lot of "base" music out there these days.)

Hate to be a pill, but I strongly believe that these types of copy errors in a published article detract from the otherwise worthwhile points that are being made.

13 posted on 07/30/2009 6:18:39 AM PDT by Maceman
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For every 100 MW of wind generation, 85 MW of backup fossil power is required. In Texas, the figure is > 90 percent backup.


14 posted on 07/30/2009 6:24:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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Other reasons aside windmills aren’t reliable sources of energy or cost efficient. I have driven by the vast forest of windmills in southwestern Minnesota along Highway 23 on days when not one of the hundreds of windmills that stretch to the horizon were turning and on other days when only a handful were in operation. I have also seen very windy days when the windmills are idled because wind velocities beyond a certain point stress the massive rotors to the breaking point and they need to be shut down. The demand for electricity continues whether the winds blow or not.


15 posted on 07/30/2009 6:34:43 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
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The designs for smaller, individual turbines are better in this regard. Big propellers going through the air is not something I would want near my house.


16 posted on 07/30/2009 7:04:46 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Political Junkie Too

They have to self-medicate.


17 posted on 07/30/2009 7:36:58 AM PDT by tiki (True Christians will not deliberately slander or misrepresent others or their beliefs)
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***...alignment along the magnetic field line induces positronic displacement into the grid.***

Anything like the Positronic rays used to by Jane Fonda in BARBARELLA?


18 posted on 07/30/2009 7:56:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
For every 100 MW of wind generation, 85 MW of backup fossil power is required. In Texas, the figure is > 90 percent backup.

Someone I know who delivers parts to some of the wind farms in TX told me he sees a lot of broken turbines when he goes out to deliver. I am guessing they are more prone to breakage with less return, than say the electric plants at Calavera Lake or Braunig Lake near San Antonio. Anybody know?

19 posted on 07/30/2009 8:57:19 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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The demand for electricity continues whether the winds blow or not.

Yep. Texas is, by design, completely off of the US's grid - I guess so that if Obama is successful in instituting HorrorbamaCare & nationalizing those last remaining parts of the American private economy he hasn't already stolen we can beat a hasty exit from the Union without much interruption to our daily lives,lol).

But the state has become very wind-dependent over the last few years for power & has narrowly averted rolling blackout events a couple of times when the winds died down suddenly at windfarms in West TX. So now we're having to build all these $$$ newfangled backup generating plants powered by natural gas (fossil fuel!) to be able to kick in when winds collapse (usually, but as we saw in 2008, not always at night).

Heaven knows I'm no energy expert, but, as a lowly consumer, it surely seems to me that wind power is turning out to be neither as cheap nor as green as all the shills for the self-enriching racketeers in the Big Green Lobby told us it would be. By the time we get all the kinks worked out (if ever), all those ridiculously delicate $$$ turbines we were told would save us so much in the long term will have had to have been replaced many times over. God only knows what the ever-escalating eventual $/KW tab will average by the time all is said & done.

(I sure wish Envirwackolifornia would have been the state to serve as the guinea pigs on Wind Power - but as usual, the sanctimonious dolts at the Statehouse in Sacramento never put their money where their green mouths are, at least not where it counts.)

20 posted on 07/30/2009 9:28:17 AM PDT by leilani
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