Posted on 03/26/2011 7:01:11 AM PDT by detective
Wind energy took another blow—this time in Massachusetts.
Wind One is the 400-foot-tall wind turbine owned by the town of Falmouth, on the southwestern tip of Cape Cod. The residents of Falmouth initially welcomed Wind One as a symbol of green energy and a handy way to keep local taxes down. Electricity generated by the turbine would be used to power the municipality’s infrastructure, thus shaving about $400,000 a year off its utility costs.
Installed in the spring of 2010 at a cost of $5.1 million (with some $3 million derived through grants, government kickbacks, and credits), the huge turbine cranks out 1.65 megawatts of electricity during optimum conditions.
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I guess the green idiots have never turned a fan on. THEY ALL MAKE NOISE!
Minnesota has a “wind Power” project that adds about .5% of electricity to the grid, but my monthly statement has increased by over 10%. It says right in the bill; “Renewable Energy Subsidy fee.” And it is always over 10% of my bill, and has raised my monthly costs by 35 dollars per month.
It is grossly expensive and inefficient power and we are paying through the nose against our will, in order to support it.
And the all residents here are outraged about this, but the legislature ignores our complaints.
You know I live about fifty miles from a large place where a nuclear power plant was under construction, it was one of three are four that mr. Reagan cancelled, it was one of the dumbest acts the man pulled and I get pisssed every time I think about it. My point is you can be for or against anything you wish, but don’t tell lies about it, some kid may read it and think he is repeating the truth.
It's amazing how the enviros can simply look the other way when it's fellow enviros doing the damage.
Kinda' like when NOW saw nothing wrong about Clinton's treatment of women.
Can't help but think liberalism is the link, and it over-rides everything else.
Missed that part, huh?
Actually, I don't see a problem here. Evolution will take care of this. Birds will evolve to fly between the baldes. Very enviro. /s
Did not miss anything, change the design the noise problem will go away, if there is one. Now how much money has the tax payers given the same location in heating oil the last 30 damn years.
It’s a good way to confiscate more land. One wonders what resources are underneath the windmills.
Although enviros claim an ESTIMATED number of birds are killed annually, they have no EMPIRICAL data to prove their claims. Yes, birds are killed, but I don’t believe it comes anywhere near the numbers they’re claiming or there would be mountains of bird carcasses at the base of every turbine.
So, they’re charging full speed ahead to get these wind farms shut down. Even the Sierra Club cannot provide any EMPIRICAL data, they persist in using the term ESTIMATE.
These blades don’t move at the speed of a household fan, they’re rather slow and if a bird can avoid a car moving at 60-70 mph, why can’t they avoid a fan blade moving at 16-20 rpm?
Cats might kill an ESTIMATED 100’s of millions of birds each year, shall we ban cats? See how easy it is to make an unqualifed assumption based solely on the FACT that we do KNOW for CERTAIN that cats kill birds?
Page 6 of the following pdf discusses wind turbine fatalities and the faulty methods and “assumptions” environemntalists are using to “bump up” the numbers at Altamont Pass and other wind turbine locations.
Actually, no. We used to have a small 225KW hydro plant on the river in our town. It was built in 1913 by a local citizen. The Greenies & kayaker crowd leaned on Duke Power to tear the dam down. Our county protested, but lost the court case. Duke agreed to tear it down in exchange for the Eco weenies and kayakers agreeing NOT to challenge the renewal of licenses for 5 other, larger Duke Power hydroelectric dams in the area.
I will NEVER believe another "greenie-use Renewable Power" advocate.
Based on the estimates derived or reviewed in this paper, annual bird mortality from anthropogenic sources may easily approach 1 billion birds a year in the US alone (table 2). Buildings, power lines and cats are estimated to comprise approximately 82 percent of the mortality, vehicles 8 percent, pesticides 7 percent, communication towers 0.5 percent, and wind turbines 0.003 percent. Other sources such as mortality from electrocution, oil spills and fishing by-catch are also contributors but estimates were not made and we have not even considered the impacts from loss of habitat which could also be considered anthropogenic.
Maybe I should have said mega watt. There are far too many small ones to count them all but most were actuals used to provide power to a business, common all over new england. I was out driving around north of Greenville tn, years ago and found one a lot like the one in the picture, had no ideal it was there. The burlap crowd have many designs for one house power plants run off of water, free electricity, as long as you know how to maintain it.
“The burlap crowd”
Now that’s a new term for me! Mother Earth News types?
BTW, I am a fan of micro-hydro!
I was at a doctors office and there was a magazine there that had some stories about micro, I did some reading about it after that, found it interesting. If you lived where you had a good down hill run of water it would work well. Getting a speed governor working properly is the hard part.
I saw a 3 blade operate for about 8 months on top of a mountain in Boone, NC. After the noise and constant bird killings it was dismantled and sold for scrap. Cost? No one seems to know except it was built by GRANTS from the federal(us) government.
The story about the big ones killing birds is crap, they turn to slow. But I did have an owl hit my pickups window once at about 65 mph, killed the hell out of him and scared the crap out of me. “Almost”.
I may sue. Using Chaos theory analogies that say a butterfly flapping it’s wings on the Pampas may cause a tornado in the US, well how do I know that these monstrosities didn’t cause Katrina?
“but the legislature ignores our complaints”
Ah, but that’s what a ballot box is for.
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