Posted on 08/21/2010 11:29:03 AM PDT by paul in cape
Maine should focus on tidal and skip wind
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS158498914020100820
Ocean Renewable Power Tests Tidal Power System in Maine
Throws off the natural balance.
Actually, they are serious about it, too. Read what Holdren has written.
The wind pied piper merrily led the gullible along. Not one of the 385 who voted “yes” did any background research on damage these machines do? They all swallowed the promoter’s pitch, hook, line and sinker? There is an abundance of information all over about the problems these machines cause and it doesn’t take much effort to find it.
Granola-eaters or not, I don’t have much sympathy.
Large-scale land-gobbling solar and wind projects are nonsensical and impractical. They take probably 1,000 times the land of a conventional nuclear plant.
“From a few hundred yards away, they are completely silent.”
DID YOU NOTICE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WERE MOVING?
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The granole-types who live on the island voted 383-5 in
favor of the turbines 2 years ago.
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Sounds like that hope-and-change thang has left a sour taste in
some of these granola-types!
Doesn’t surprise me that many are not functioning. We say many that were idle, but then maybe the wind wasnt’ blowing hard enough. Seems to me that if we were to build tons of them in front of the Congress, the White House and every other politicians offices we would have more power than we could ever use.
MONEY. MONEY. MONEY.
GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED MARKETS. AL GORE.
If that doesn't help, then...
All of this 'green ecology' stuff was just a venue for the RICH to get RICHER.
The U.S. imported those cheap, crappy windmills from CHINA, amongst others.
They are unreliable, inefficient, take up large amounts of space, do not tolerate extremes of heat or cold, kill birds, emanate low frequency vibrations, which travel much further than higher frequency noise, and can even be deadly.
There is a harmonic (vibrational rate) that the body is very susceptible to. It is a very low frequency rate, and these windmills run around the same frequency, depending on windspeed.
Anyway, contracts for these windmills (major international DEALS) were made years ago, to the exclusion of any other type, so as to force sales (profits) to certain overseas manufacturers, who provided kickbacks to the politicians who ensured the deals.
Does it make sense now?
If you tour these WINDMILL FARMS, you will find many of them are damaged, or not even being used.
These newer (and much better) types of WIND POWER GENERATORS are mostly aimed at the HOME segment, because the NATIONAL sales market was miserably low due to IN PLACE CONTRACTS for FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS.
I.E., Even if you had a better mouse, you couldn't sell it to the government.
Actually, they do. And mostly we stick them out in West Texas where there is no scenery anyway, and almost nobody living anywhere nearby.
The largest and most productive wind farm in the US isn’t in California. It’s in Texas.
West Texas is where we saw all the turbines. We were driving back to Tennessee from Odessa.
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