[nikos1121]

Can someone answer me something. We have a wind farm recently put up in our area. You can see it as you drive out in the country. It’s in the distance. THere must be fifty of these things and the number is growing.

EACH AND EVERY TIME I DRIVE BY THE PROPS ARE TURNING REGARDLESS IF THERE IS WIND OR NO WIND. ON DAYS WHEN THERE IS NO WIND THE PROPS ARE GOING.

How can this be? Is someone fooling us?

[Bill Dupray]

Liberal trick. They leave the fans on to make it look like they actually do something.

[HiramQuick]

That is what wind farms do ... create wind. Where do you think those breezes come from?

[willgolfforfood]

There could easily be enough wind 200 or 300 feet in the air to get these things turning. It’s not the wind 6 feet off the ground that makes them turn.

[pipecorp]

Generally @300 feet there’s enough wind to keep things moving

If you look up motorwind you’ll fin a low speed possibility for residential use which only requires 5kph or 2 mph to generate electricity...I think the big boys need at least 12-15 mph

also with the height of the towers , you can fit a lot of squirrels on little treadmills to keep the turbines spinning

[Valpal1]

Just because you don’t feel any breeze on the ground doesn’t mean there isn’t one “in the distance” and 400 feet up in the air where the blades of the wind turmines are.

[taxcontrol]

Wind is often “vertically stacked” meaning that the winds can blow, not blow, blow in different directions, but separated vertically. So it is quite possible and very common for there be less than 2 mph breeze at ground level but blowing 20 mph up at 100 feet.

[avacado]

They burn natural gas to power the windmills to keep them going even when there is no wind.

[taxcontrol]

Wind is often “vertically stacked” meaning that the winds can blow, not blow, blow in different directions, but separated vertically. So it is quite possible and very common for there be less than 2 mph breeze at ground level but blowing 20 mph up at 100 feet.

[atomicweeder]

Enviro-kooks are opposed to oil because oil is produced and sold by large corporations.

The environmentalist movement is really an anti-business movement. As soon as they learn the wind turbines and solar panels are produced by giant corporations, they will oppose those also.

[tiki]

Is it up in the hills or mountains? On our ranch, which is mostly mountainous there are places where the wind blows 24/7. My MIL lives up on the slope and the wind blows almost constantly there too while there isn’t a wisp of breeze down in the valley.