Wind turbines of Tararua wind farm viewed from State Highway 3 near Manawatu Gorge. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: The three primary types of wind turbine--Savonius and Darrieus vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) and a standard horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT)--all with three blades, are spinning as if they are in operation in real wind. They are spinning at the same speed (mathematically); 30 rpm. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Wind turbines under construction in the Biglow Canyon Wind Farm (Photo credit: Wikipedia)No More Wind Turbines
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Combative
developer Donald Trump has signaled his intention to mount a legal
challenge against the Scottish Government over its decision to grant approval to a wind farm off the Aberdeenshire coast.
Speaking to the BBC Trump confirmed that he would instruct his lawyers to move against the scheme ‘fairly soon’ in a bid to preserve existing views from his new golf course at Menie, Aberdeenshire.
Commenting on his legal team Trump said: “They are as incensed as I am and as many people in Scotland are. This isn’t just Donald Trump. We have thousands of people all over Scotland that are absolutely incensed.
“I probably started that because I said something can be done about this.”
Trump recently unveiled plans to construct a 140 bedroom hotel on the estate, a development he has pledged not to progress should the wind farm be built.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, which is proposing the offshore wind farm, counters that renewable energy is essential to address climate change.
Speaking to the BBC Trump confirmed that he would instruct his lawyers to move against the scheme ‘fairly soon’ in a bid to preserve existing views from his new golf course at Menie, Aberdeenshire.
Commenting on his legal team Trump said: “They are as incensed as I am and as many people in Scotland are. This isn’t just Donald Trump. We have thousands of people all over Scotland that are absolutely incensed.
“I probably started that because I said something can be done about this.”
Trump recently unveiled plans to construct a 140 bedroom hotel on the estate, a development he has pledged not to progress should the wind farm be built.
The European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, which is proposing the offshore wind farm, counters that renewable energy is essential to address climate change.
This is what happens when transmission fails.
I
too have heard the gentle swishing of turbine blades at the observation
point on the Manawatu's Saddle Rd and wondered what people were making a
fuss about. More recently, I took the Manawatu Gorge walking track.
As we neared the top, I heard a noise that sounded like a diesel engine
pulling a heavy train through the gorge. I commented on it to our
guide. He explained it wasn't a train but the noise of a wind turbine
about 100m away. I'm now sympathetic to opponents of wind turbines.
MICHAEL LAWRENCE
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/letters-to-the-editor/8579544/Letter-A-diesel-engine-pulling-a-train
MICHAEL LAWRENCE
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/letters-to-the-editor/8579544/Letter-A-diesel-engine-pulling-a-train
Lawyer
Eric Gillespie and Wind Concerns Ontario are taking heart from a
Superior Court ruling that persons in the proximity of industrial wind
turbines can commence a civil action against turbine proponents and host
landowners when and if a wind farm development has been approved for
construction.
HOW MANY BATS HAVE BEEN KILLED BY WIND TURBINES SINCE 2008?
Wind turbines kill birds and bats. Bats are particularly vulnerable because
turbines are especially busy at night, when bats are everywhere but electricity
demand is at its lowest. Bats are struck by blades traveling 100-200 mph at their
tips or felled by “barotrauma,” sudden air pressure changes that explode their
lungs.
"Beware: exploding lungs" is not a sign one would expect to see at a wind farm. But
a new study suggests this is the main reason bats die in large numbers around wind
turbines.
The risk that wind turbines pose to birds is well known and has dogged debates over
wind energy. In fact, several studies have suggested the risk to bats is greater.
In May 2007, the US National Research Council published the results of a survey of
US wind farms showing that two bat species accounted for 60% of winged animals
killed. Migrating birds, meanwhile, appear to steer clear of the turbines.
Why bats - who echolocate moving objects - are killed by turbines has remained a
mystery until now. The research council thought the high-frequency noise from the
turbines' gears and blades could be disrupting the bats' echolocation systems.
In fact, a new study shows that the moving blades cause a drop in pressure that
makes the delicate lungs of bats suddenly expand, bursting the tissue's blood
vessels. This is known as a barotrauma, and is well-known to scuba divers.
http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/04/06/cut-fingers-cancer-bats-
and-birds-n1558519/page/2
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-make-bat-lungs-
explode.html
(4 photos)Wind turbines kill birds and bats. Bats are particularly vulnerable because
turbines are especially busy at night, when bats are everywhere but electricity
demand is at its lowest. Bats are struck by blades traveling 100-200 mph at their
tips or felled by “barotrauma,” sudden air pressure changes that explode their
lungs.
"Beware: exploding lungs" is not a sign one would expect to see at a wind farm. But
a new study suggests this is the main reason bats die in large numbers around wind
turbines.
The risk that wind turbines pose to birds is well known and has dogged debates over
wind energy. In fact, several studies have suggested the risk to bats is greater.
In May 2007, the US National Research Council published the results of a survey of
US wind farms showing that two bat species accounted for 60% of winged animals
killed. Migrating birds, meanwhile, appear to steer clear of the turbines.
Why bats - who echolocate moving objects - are killed by turbines has remained a
mystery until now. The research council thought the high-frequency noise from the
turbines' gears and blades could be disrupting the bats' echolocation systems.
In fact, a new study shows that the moving blades cause a drop in pressure that
makes the delicate lungs of bats suddenly expand, bursting the tissue's blood
vessels. This is known as a barotrauma, and is well-known to scuba divers.
http://townhall.com/columnists/pauldriessen/2013/04/06/cut-fingers-cancer-bats-
and-birds-n1558519/page/2
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14593-wind-turbines-make-bat-lungs-
explode.html
On
the outskirts of one of China’s most polluted cities, an old farmer
stares despairingly out across an immense lake of bubbling toxic waste
covered in black dust. He remembers it as fields of wheat and corn.
Yan Man Jia Hong is a dedicated Communist. At 74, he still believes in his revolutionary heroes, but he despises the young local officials and entrepreneurs who have let this happen.
‘Chairman Mao was a hero and saved us,’ he says. ‘But these people only care about money. They have destroyed our lives.’
Vast fortunes are being amassed here in Inner Mongolia; the region has more than 90 per cent of the world’s legal reserves of rare earth metals, and specifically neodymium, the element needed to make the magnets in the most striking of green energy producers, wind turbines.
Live has uncovered the distinctly dirty truth about the process used to extract neodymium: it has an appalling environmental impact that raises serious questions over the credibility of so-called green technology.
The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.
Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.
This vast, hissing cauldron of chemicals is the dumping ground for seven million tons a year of mined rare earth after it has been doused in acid and chemicals and processed through red-hot furnaces to extract its components.
Yan Man Jia Hong is a dedicated Communist. At 74, he still believes in his revolutionary heroes, but he despises the young local officials and entrepreneurs who have let this happen.
‘Chairman Mao was a hero and saved us,’ he says. ‘But these people only care about money. They have destroyed our lives.’
Vast fortunes are being amassed here in Inner Mongolia; the region has more than 90 per cent of the world’s legal reserves of rare earth metals, and specifically neodymium, the element needed to make the magnets in the most striking of green energy producers, wind turbines.
Live has uncovered the distinctly dirty truth about the process used to extract neodymium: it has an appalling environmental impact that raises serious questions over the credibility of so-called green technology.
The reality is that, as Britain flaunts its environmental credentials by speckling its coastlines and unspoiled moors and mountains with thousands of wind turbines, it is contributing to a vast man-made lake of poison in northern China. This is the deadly and sinister side of the massively profitable rare-earths industry that the ‘green’ companies profiting from the demand for wind turbines would prefer you knew nothing about.
Hidden out of sight behind smoke-shrouded factory complexes in the city of Baotou, and patrolled by platoons of security guards, lies a five-mile wide ‘tailing’ lake. It has killed farmland for miles around, made thousands of people ill and put one of China’s key waterways in jeopardy.
This vast, hissing cauldron of chemicals is the dumping ground for seven million tons a year of mined rare earth after it has been doused in acid and chemicals and processed through red-hot furnaces to extract its components.
Province Forced To Pay Millions For Expensive Wind Power On Super-Windy Weekend
Wind Turbines don't generate any power when they don't run and cost us a fortune when they do.
Figures from recording wind power generation in Ontario from 7 PM on Friday May 10, 2013 (off-peak rates kick in for the weekend) through to midnight May 12, 2013 show that wind produced 58,165 megawatt hours (MWh) and beat their old hourly production record several times. The 58,165 MWh at $135 per MWh cost Ontario ratepayers $7,852,276. At the same time, because wind power has priority over cheaper forms of electricity production in this province, we had to export 127,361 MWh at $20.40 per MWh. Worse, Ontario Power Generation actually ‘spilled’ or wasted clean renewable hydro power---probably as much as wind produced. We could have generated the same amount of power from hydro as wind at a cost of just $1,186,500.
Ontario’s Auditor-General has commented that wind power is produced out of phase with demand, and that the government never did a business case study for its renewable energy program. “Ontario electricity customers are stuck with a very large bill for power we didn’t really need.”
Wind Turbines don't generate any power when they don't run and cost us a fortune when they do.
Figures from recording wind power generation in Ontario from 7 PM on Friday May 10, 2013 (off-peak rates kick in for the weekend) through to midnight May 12, 2013 show that wind produced 58,165 megawatt hours (MWh) and beat their old hourly production record several times. The 58,165 MWh at $135 per MWh cost Ontario ratepayers $7,852,276. At the same time, because wind power has priority over cheaper forms of electricity production in this province, we had to export 127,361 MWh at $20.40 per MWh. Worse, Ontario Power Generation actually ‘spilled’ or wasted clean renewable hydro power---probably as much as wind produced. We could have generated the same amount of power from hydro as wind at a cost of just $1,186,500.
Ontario’s Auditor-General has commented that wind power is produced out of phase with demand, and that the government never did a business case study for its renewable energy program. “Ontario electricity customers are stuck with a very large bill for power we didn’t really need.”
Falmouth
wind turbines generate controversy. Sleep deprivation, elevated stress
levels, headaches, feelings of nausea – symptoms described by a number
of Falmouth residents living near turbines.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2189054120001/massachusetts-wind-turbines-generate-controversy/
http://video.foxnews.com/v/2189054120001/massachusetts-wind-turbines-generate-controversy/
The
Massachusetts commercial wind turbines have become a chronic problem.
The projects continued to deliberately bring health issues to
residential communities. They are permitted by the state of
Massachusetts.In many communities residents are
viewed as political enemies when they complain about their failing
health. The residents around commercial wind sites in several
Massachusetts towns have been perceived as enemies of the state.
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/falmouth-ma/THHEIPPIIPA85J4QR
http://www.topix.com/forum/city/falmouth-ma/THHEIPPIIPA85J4QR
Critics
point out that landowners rent their land to renewable generators,
whose wind farms are subsidised by extra levies on ordinary electricity
consumers. Tory MEP Struan Stevenson’s estimates suggest that the Duke
of Roxburghe could net £1.5 million a
year from a wind farm on the Lammermuir Hills. The Earl of Moray is
estimated to receive £2 million a year from a wind farm near Stirling.
The Earl of Glasgow could be earning upwards of £300,000 a year from
turbines on his Kelburn estate. --Tom Peterkin, The Scotsman, 16 May
2013
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/lairds-criticised-for-pocketing-wind-farm-subsidies-1-2932136
http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/lairds-criticised-for-pocketing-wind-farm-subsidies-1-2932136
Lairds criticised for pocketing wind farm subsidies - Environment - Scotsman.com
www.scotsman.com
THE
leader of the Scottish Government review of landownership yesterday
pledged to examine ways of redistributing the cash wealthy
Kingston Massachusett Board of Health & Wind Contractors $300.00 Bar Bill
BAD MOVE BEARS: AG complaint alleges BOH violated open meeting law, took illegal giftshttp://kingstonjournal.com/bad-move-bears-complaint-to-ag-alleges-boh-violated-open-meeting-law-received-illegal-gifts/
BAD MOVE BEARS: AG complaint alleges BOH violated open meeting law, took illegal giftshttp://kingstonjournal.com/bad-move-bears-complaint-to-ag-alleges-boh-violated-open-meeting-law-received-illegal-gifts/
BAD MOVE BEARS: AG complaint alleges BOH violated open meeting law, took illegal gifts
kingstonjournal.com
KINGSTON- Only an hour after the Kingston Board of Health (BOH)
recessed their April 22 public hearing on shadow-flicker---the BOH was
GREEN JOBS IN THE MIDLANDS … THINK AGAIN!
'These wind farms will be owned by foreign investors, erected using foreign equipment and staff, operated by a handful of permanent employees, the product sold to the UK, which will get the benefit of the carbon credits, power and not have to worry about the environmental impact. The benefit to this country will be so small in comparison to the reward that it is laughable that we are considering it at all.
One ray of sunshine is that the local property tax band that you are in will be reduced substantially. If you are within several miles of one of these machines you are certainly in the €0-100,000 band, and nearer to the zero than the top.'
WIND TURBINES WILL DOMINATE THE MIDLANDS
'These wind farms will be owned by foreign investors, erected using foreign equipment and staff, operated by a handful of permanent employees, the product sold to the UK, which will get the benefit of the carbon credits, power and not have to worry about the environmental impact. The benefit to this country will be so small in comparison to the reward that it is laughable that we are considering it at all.
One ray of sunshine is that the local property tax band that you are in will be reduced substantially. If you are within several miles of one of these machines you are certainly in the €0-100,000 band, and nearer to the zero than the top.'
'These wind farms will be owned by foreign investors, erected using foreign equipment and staff, operated by a handful of permanent employees, the product sold to the UK, which will get the benefit of the carbon credits, power and not have to worry about the environmental impact. The benefit to this country will be so small in comparison to the reward that it is laughable that we are considering it at all.
One ray of sunshine is that the local property tax band that you are in will be reduced substantially. If you are within several miles of one of these machines you are certainly in the €0-100,000 band, and nearer to the zero than the top.'
WIND TURBINES WILL DOMINATE THE MIDLANDS
'These wind farms will be owned by foreign investors, erected using foreign equipment and staff, operated by a handful of permanent employees, the product sold to the UK, which will get the benefit of the carbon credits, power and not have to worry about the environmental impact. The benefit to this country will be so small in comparison to the reward that it is laughable that we are considering it at all.
One ray of sunshine is that the local property tax band that you are in will be reduced substantially. If you are within several miles of one of these machines you are certainly in the €0-100,000 band, and nearer to the zero than the top.'
Wethington
files for new Fairhaven Board of Health election, hearing Wednesday-
Martin Suuberg, Mass DEP , to meet with the Board of Health to discuss
the sound study of the two industrial turbines on town land. The meeting
Tuesday, May 21."
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130521%2FNEWS%2F305210335
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20130521%2FNEWS%2F305210335
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Despite the negative propaganda, no one can deny the effectiveness of residential wind turbine in generating 100% clean and green energy. Many reports have highlighted the growing popularity of wind energy as an alternative to expensive power sources like electricity and fossil oil.
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