Wind Developers – Can they Keep their Promises?
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Wind Developers — Can They Keep Thier Promises?
WOWO Radio — Pat Miller Program
Larry Long & Nick Stanger from Whitley County Concerned Citizens, along with Tom Stacy from Save Western Ohio join Pat Miller on WOWO for a program discussing wind energy and the proposed industrial wind farm for Whitley County.
Lots of great information!!
Remember…
Sometimes we need to step back and reflect on how we got where we are today. Seeing things in perspective can help us make better decisions today. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Why the Wind Power Industry Could Be the Greatest Scam of Our Age — Three Lies that Prove It
From National Wind Watch:
Scarcely a day goes by without more evidence to show why the Government’s obsession with wind turbines, now at the centre of our national energy policy, is one of the greatest political blunders of our time.
Under a target agreed with the EU, Britain is committed within ten years — at astronomic expense — to generating nearly a third of its electricity from renewable sources, mainly through building thousands more wind turbines.
But the penny is finally dropping for almost everyone — except our politicians — that to rely on windmills to keep our lights on is a colossal and very dangerous act of self-deception.
Read the rest at National Wind Watch.
“Big Money” Discovers Huge Subsidies for “Wind Energy”
In the US, “wind farms” are now being built primarily for tax avoidance purposes, not because of their environmental, energy, or economic benefits. The tax breaks and subsidies have more value to “wind farm” owners than the revenue from the sale of electricity they produce… 2/3 of the economic value of wind projects come from tax breaks.
Who are the winners and losers in the wind energy game?
Electrical Energy, the Stimulus Package & You
Let’s start with the assumption that we have some serious energy problems. A businessman steps up and says: “I have a product which will significantly help.” Our first impulse would be to say “great”. But, what should we say next? Maybe this presentation will help:
Wind Farm Would Interfere with Doppler Radar
From WANE-TV:
When I heard the story on our newscast about a wind farm possibly being constructed in Whitley County a red flag went up for me. It’s something that most people don’t think about, but certainly something that meteorologists think about. This is not a theory, there is hard evidence to support my claim.
Let’s take a look at what has happened near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There is a wind farm in an adjoining county there that is playing havoc with the National Weather Service Doppler radar.
Here is a picture of the considerable clutter that is caused by a wind farm. (Doppler radar is very sensitive to winds.) This wind farm is located about 30 miles away from the radar site.
Read the rest at WANE-TV.
Dairy Farmer Speaks about Stray Voltage Effects
From National Wind Watch:
Scott Srnka speaking about stray voltage trouble on his farm:
“This is a five hundred ohms resistor here, this wire is hooked to my stall, this white wire is a remote ground rod way across way, way away from the buildings. So I can go shut the power off across the road and this will still read the same. So it’s coming out of the earth. And I’m four wired. When I shut my power off all four wires are disconnected. So my ground and neutral don’t even come to the farm either.
This is coming out of the earth getting on my stalls, and this is where the cows are living.”
In China, the true cost of Britain’s clean, green wind power experiment: Pollution on a disastrous scale
From National Wind Watch:
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.
Read the rest at National Wind Watch.
Do wind projects adversely affect proximate residential property values?
The most basic law of economics is that things are valued based on the “Law of Supply and Demand.” It is exceedingly obvious, all things being equal, that many people (due to view, sound, flicker, etc) would choose NOT to buy a home where there are wind turbines close by. (Whether they are right or wrong in their reasons is irrelevant.)
These beliefs would reduce demand, which clearly would have some negative impact on the price of such a property. The only real question is how much of an impact?
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Life under a wind turbine? See "WINDFALL", Sat Mar 10 & Sat Mar 17, 2pm. Peabody Library auditorium, Columbia City, IN.- Infrasound and Adverse Health Effects link #noise #setbacks
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- Tax dollars backing some "risky" energy projects link #bankruptcy #stimulus #subsidies