GOD BLESS TEXAS
Posted on 08/17/2008 9:31:21 AM PDT by BlazingArizona
John Yancey leans against his truck in a field outside his home, his face contorted in anger and pain.
John Yancey doesn't like the Maple Ridge Wind Farm turbines and the deal his father signed for them.
"Listen," he says.
The rhythmic whoosh, whoosh, whoosh of wind turbines echoes through the air. Sleek and white, their long propeller blades rotate in formation, like some otherworldly dance of spindly-armed aliens swaying across the land.
Yancey knows the towers are pumping clean electricity into the grid, knows they have been largely embraced by his community
But Yancey hates them.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
He should think of it as the sound of money.
Still need oil to maintain those windmills .....
“Wind Power FUD”! :)
Oh, No, Wait - the kids would have had to pony up money. The Horror - The Horror.
How about the kid with the ultra light place. “Put a mill where I like to play and I'm gone”.
I hope dad leaves it all to charity cause he ain't gittin’ any at home.
This guy is taking the brunt of the impact of these wind-generation turbines so Ted Kennedy won’t have to.
Just imagine the smashed bird carcasses scattered all over the fields surrounding the towers, as they come WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH all day and all night.
I sense a huge NIMBY suit coming.
GOD BLESS TEXAS
And then: "This particular weekend is a busy one for Yancey's inn, which is hosting a huge watercross event -- in which snowmobiles roar across the pond, their speed keeping them from sinking."
Yeah, uh huh, sure, you have a problem with turbines yet you are a home to snowmobile events?
Something ain't quite right....
Does anyone have a non-subsidized breakdown of return on investment from windpower?
And all the birds that they kill. These wind turbines are a piece of crap.
They can put one on my land in NY - in a NY minute.
The two kids sound like a couple of ingrates. $6600 per mill times 195 mills = $ 1,287,000 per year.
But as long as Ted Kennedy can't see them, they aren't ugly, right?
The trip also made me conclude that the most irritating job in America may just be hauling oversized windmill components across Iowa during the road construction season.
Mr. niteowl77
So in the year 2047...;)
This is a great article for those who want to go beyond the hype and understand the real impacts and trade offs of wind power. They’re portrayed in a rosy glow in the McCain and Obama political ads. But nobody wants to live near one.
If you own the land you have that option
The libs see these as things of beauty, but if these were oil derricks, they would be foaming-at-the-mouth enraged.
After NPR aired a story last year about the terrible anguish caused by the noise emitted by these windmills, I made a special trip out there to see if I could hear them. My curiosity was peaked because in all the times I'd been there, I had no memory of any "swish" noise, or, for that matter, of any noise whatever, save for the occaisional noise of the cab drive motor (or whatever it's called) that operates to adjust the angle of the cab so that the plane of the turbine blade circle faces into the wind.
The first thing you have to know is this: when those blades are turning, the wind is blowing. It's very hard to arrange things so you can hear anything over the roar of the wind.
If you can get your hands over your ears so that you don't get blasted, and if you get really close to the turbine, you can hear a very slight mechanical whirr, and perhaps a little bit of 60 Hz hum, but that could have been my imagination. Definitely no "swoosh" or "swish" or any other sound that is in time with the passing of the blade tips.
I have to point out in the interest of full disclosure that the wind turbines near my house are big. From ground level to the top of the mast is about 250 feet. To the top of the blade circle is more like 350 feet.
For what it’s worth department: I crunched the numbers from some studies by the usual type enviro-wackos a while back. They were screeching about the number of birds being killed by the wind turbines per year in a paticular area. It came to an average of about 3 per month. Birds, like other species, quickly learn to avoid dangers.
LOL - oil derricks, gas drilling, strip mining, wind farms - I don’t care, so long as it pays.
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