Falmouth, MA, Votes to Take-down wind turbines

Fox News Live (no link) | 2/26/13 | litton51@hotmail.com

[pabianice]

In April, 2011, Wind 1 went online near Falmouth, MA's waste plant. The 262 feet tall structure -- 10 feet taller than the Pilgrim Monument in Provincetown -- has blades that extend almost 400 feet, which is about half the height of the John Hancock Building in Boston, reported WGBH-TV. Complaints started almost immediately.

According to Fox, Wind 2 is ready to go online but the town said 'enough is enough.' The 262-foot eyesores have created a storm of protests from residents, many of whom blame numerous health problems on the turbine already in use. The blades' low frequency vibrations permeate every structure within several miles, making sleep impossible. Worse, contrary to the promise of Gov. Deval Patrick and the far-left state legislature, the cost per kilowatt-hour is four times that of commercial natural gas, which creates 50% of the state's electricity.

So the town government just voted unanimously to stop Wind 1, take-down Wind 2, and cancel Wind 3. The cost of taking down 1 and 2 will be approximately $5M per windmill. No estimate yet on canceling the contract to put-up Wind 3.

[pabianice]

If you've driven by the windmills on the way to the Cape you know how huge and ugly they are. I have to smile at the comeupance of the Liberals who forced these monstrosities upon the state. I pass the set of windmills near Mt. Wachusett almost every day. They are a static display of Leftist stupidity. But Liberals are satisfied that they were able to erect these monuments to 19th century technology -- as long as they themselves live far, far away from them.

[grobdriver]

(Insert laughing Homer Simpson here.)

[Vigilanteman]

One of my pipe dreams is that the rest of the country puts a non-renewable energy embargo on the Massholes and other libtard havens.

When they complain, we tell them to buld windmills, solar panels and other renewable energy sources.

After all, that's their prescription for the rest of the country and they should lead the way.

[Sirius Lee]

I honestly don't think they're ugly. Useless, yes. Ugly, eh...I've seen worse.

[saganite]

Link?

[driftdiver]

$5 million to take down? hogwash

It would take about $200 in explosives and then a few thousand to pay someone to cut up and haul away the remains.

[Lady Jag]

Good riddance. Not only are they hideous, they’re ridiculous expenses.

[pabianice]

Explosives? Are you mad? No Liberal would agree to such a noisy, dusty, disruption to the life cycle of the Cape Cod Lesser Red-nosed Sand Vole. No, they must be taken-down one 10-pound piece at a time, using only manual tools, and disposed of only by hazardous waste disposal professionals from Green Peace.

[cripplecreek]

Something I stumbled across that's very interesting. It says what we all know to be true about wind not being feasible and suggests what I have suspected about possible damage done by thousands of windmills.

Study: Wind power's role overestimated

"People have often thought there's no upper bound for wind power -- that it's one of the most scalable power sources," Harvard University applied physicist David Keith says.

The thought is based on the belief gusts and breezes aren't likely to "run out" on a global scale in the way oil wells might run dry, he said in a Harvard release Monday.

But an atmospheric modeling study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggests a law of diminishing returns when it comes to the largest of wind farms.

Every wind turbine creates a downwind "shadow" in which the air has been slowed by drag on the turbine's blades, so turbines have to be spaced far enough apart to reduce the effect of these wind shadows.

But as wind farms grow larger, Keith said, they start to interact and regional-scale wind patterns matter more.

Its basic high school physics children. I'm a highschool dropout and even I know that when you convert kinetic wind energy into electricity, you have lost that kinetic wind energy.

[bmwcyle]

I think the liberals should be forced to live with them and pay to keep them running.

[Ezekiel]

So the town government just voted unanimously to stop Wind 1, take-down Wind 2, and cancel Wind 3. The cost of taking down 1 and 2 will be approximately $5M per windmill. No estimate yet on canceling the contract to put-up Wind 3.

Mortimer: Tell him the good part.

Randolph: The good part William is, that, no matter whether our clients make money, or lose money, Duke and Duke get the commissions.

Mortimer: Well, what do you think, Valentine?

Billy Ray: Sounds to me like you guys a couple of bookies.

Randolph: I told you he'd understand.

[I want the USA back]

These things are a religion to the left. Blind, irrational dedication to something that is proven wrong.

The damned things kill birds! They disturb sleep for miles around.

[cicero2k]

Simple formula for the wind power sales team. Sell ‘em at nameplate power, produce at 25%. Cost per KW to purchaser: 4X.

This is what happens when a decision is made on an emotional impulse.

[muir_redwoods]

I imagine Massholes would be happy to send them to Texas or Nevada or some such benighted place. They should be forced to keep these monuments to stupidity and the law of unintended consequences for as long as the material will last.

[goldi]

And they’re going to put a bunch of them up in Nantucket Sound — enough to cover a 25 mile area — a couple of miles out to sea. No one will even notice them LOL.

[matt04]

Wait a minute. Shouldn’t they be protesting Pilgrim NPP and not “green” windmills if the left is to be believed.