Comments on: Wind Turbine Syndrome… Not!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:19:00 +0000

Regarding land needs, don’t exaggerate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sLt5gNAQs&feature=youtu.be&t=33m47s

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 13:12:00 +0000

I’m not calling them liars. The research is pretty clear about that. It indicates that people get themselves worked up over the idea… rather than any actual physical matters.

By: Alec Sevins

Alec Sevins — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:32:00 +0000

True, but I sure hope you’re not a mindless global warming denier. Critical thinking and objective reality is badly needed.

The core problem is that Man is living outside the limits of nature and calling it “economic growth.” Everything’s about meeting the “growing needs” of a runaway human population and true balance with nature gets ignored.

By: Alec Sevins

Alec Sevins — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:29:00 +0000

You must realize you’re essentially calling thousands of people liars, and the number of “liars” will grow as turbines creep into ever more rural areas. I call that green blindness and it’s just as annoying as right-wing denial of fossil fuel downsides. I can’t fathom how anyone claiming green credentials can witness massive destruction of natural viewsheds & soundscapes and just say “so be it, people need the electricity.”

The sheer scale of wind turbines on the landscape is what disturbs me the most. That, plus huge solar plants like Ivanpah, show that renewable energy has poor energy density and a very large footprint. We should at least try to limit these devices to existing rooftops or land that’s already had commercial use. Too much rural acreage is being sacrificed to these towering machines with dubious benefits and output that will always be transient.

By: Alec Sevins

Alec Sevins — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 22:20:00 +0000

Even if wind turbine noise doesn’t affect lucky human residents, it surely affects animals who have no genetic adaptation to such large intrusive structures (nor do we). And don’t forget bird kills, e.g. bald eagles now. We readily admit that subwoofer racket and numerous other artificial noises can ruin the quality of life, so why would 400-foot spinning towers in formerly quiet landscapes have no ill effects?

The visual blight is an even more serious problem. If someone entered a museum and painted a bunch of wind turbines on famous landscape paintings, they’d be charged as criminal vandals. Yet, when massive towers are laid down like industrial graffiti on real landscapes, they’re merely “green?”

I see as much denial over wind turbines as there is with global warming. People need to admit that Man is a very intrusive species, constantly disrupting and destroying nature to expand its population at the expense of others. An energy source isn’t benign simply because it doesn’t burn fossil fuels.

By: Dileepa Dharmasiri

Dileepa Dharmasiri — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 07:19:00 +0000

yes we should totally think about the outcomes before building any turbine ,

http://verticalwindturbines.blogspot.com/2012/07/outcomes-of-vawt-project.html

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:16:00 +0000

i’m sorry, but that is one of the most unscientific “studies” on the health effects of wind turbines that i could have imagined. please, look at how horrible the study methodology is there — it doesn’t even exist!

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:09:00 +0000

i know plenty of people who do, and who don’t complain about it, but are actually happy to have the wind turbines! the article above is based on science. show us some half-decent science backing up your claims and we’ll post it. so far, there isn’t any.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:07:00 +0000

if there was “plenty of documentation,” our article would look a lot different. sorry, but if you’re going to make a big statement, back it up with some facts.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 19:06:00 +0000

Heather: quite frankly, i don’t know what you’re talking about. we’re simply reporting on the science done around this topic. wind turbine hypochondria does not count as science.

By: Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:21:00 +0000

You didn’t have to state that you spend “most of your time” on the publications you write for; it’s obvious. Why not get out for a bit, go rent one of the plentiful residences vacated by those you direct your uninformed skepticism at? There are thousands of homes you could rent near those 5-story high wind turbines. Why not move in for a couple of months and write from there? Then you’d find that it’s isn’t the sound you can hear that drives people from their homes, amongst other factors, but the sound you can’t: infrasound.

I can’t wait to read your accounts from any of the ground zeroes available. Drop me a line when you set up house. Failing to take this route renders you just another trumpeter of 2nd hand views and information.

You can be a real journalist by following my advice or remain in the goldfish bowl as an armchair quarterback.

Get into the game Zachary!

By: ytreggah

ytreggah — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:08:00 +0000

Heather, In Massachusetts commercial megawatt turbines of the 1.5 megawatt class and above have been placed as close as 900 feet to residential homes. People have been made sick .There is plenty of documentation. In Falmouth,Ma. mediation has been going on longer than the peace talks at Panmunjom in Korea in 1953

By: ytreggah

ytreggah — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:00:00 +0000

There are plenty of people in Falmouth ,Massachusetts that would like to sell their homes but they aren’t worth anything anymore.The people that write these pro wind turbine stories never lived over night near a wind turbine when the wind is cranking up.
For years the wind industry has been hiding the dirty little secret about gear box faiures -

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 02:24:00 +0000

All the more reason to put them 6 miles off shore…

MrEnergyCzar

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:22:00 +0000

Isn’t this laughable? So any comment agianst wind turbines by people who are “anti-turbine” are suspect and biased……. But any comment by people who are pro-turbine are always fair and balanced and impartial?
This seems pretty classic liberal left thinking. If you oppose them, you do so because you have a bais agianst them and your not considered a valid source of information, but a bais for them makes you a reliable source of information.

By: savvyone

savvyone — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:42:00 +0000

My recommendation to you is that you spend a few months living near a wind turbine. After that, I’d like to hear what you have to report. It’s a living hell (sound, flicker effect and dead birds all over the place that have to be picked up). The proof is in the pudding.

By: ytreggah

ytreggah — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:57:00 +0000

http://falmouth.patch.com/blog_posts/massachusetts-renewable-energy-goals-fall-short#comments
Massachusetts Renewable Energy Goals Fall Short
Posted on December 22, 2012 at 5:44 am
Massachusetts Renewable Energy Goals Fall Short
Massachusetts wants commercial wind energy to play a role in its clean energy future. Governor Patrick has committed Massachusetts to a goal of installing 2,000 Megawatts of wind energy before 2020.
Two reasons look to stop the renewable energy goal of land based commercial wind turbines. The residential property owners who live around them and the excessive operation and maintenance costs of the turbines. These two reasons alone must be deducted from the 2020 renewable energy goal.
First, each time a new megawatt commercial wind turbine gets installed another local citizens’ group in that town quickly forms to curtail the operation of the turbines because of noise,shadow flicker,ice throw and real estate property devaluations.Groups of pro-wind residents living near wind turbines within weeks become anti- wind as soon as the 400 foot turbines start to spin. The operators of the turbines quickley find themselves in front of local boards and court.
Second, performance of wind turbines in New England showing that the economic life expenses of onshore wind turbines is very short in some cases between 3 and 5 years, not the 20 years projected by the wind industry and government projections.
The average load factor of wind turbines declines substantially as they get older, probably due to gear box failure. By as early as 5 years of age the contribution of an average New England wind turbine to meeting electricity demand has declined .
Many of the gear box driven megawatt turbines installed after 2008 will need expensive gear box replacements every 3 to 5 years. This raises the question of is it rarely economic to operate a wind turbine for more than 6 to 10 years? After 10 years they must be replaced with a new turbine or keep replacing major components .
Many investors, private owners and cities and towns expecting a return on their investment over 20 years will fall short of expectations. The gear box failures and the costs of a special crane to lift the gear boxes in and out contribute to the massive repair costs.

By: ytreggah

ytreggah — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:54:00 +0000

http://www.wickedlocal.com/falmouth/news/x1353223685/Wind-turbines-continue-to-divide-Falmouth-community#axzz2GGgidTU2
FALMOUTH —
The Wind Turbine Options Analysis Project met for three hours Dec. 18 to prepare its final report to the Falmouth Board of Selectmen, based on a seven-month evaluation by the Wind Turbine Options Analysis Process (WTOP).
Area residents waited nearly three hours before they could offer any public comments and expressed grave concerns that the impact of the turbines on their lives is being overshadowed by the WTOP’s focus on legal and financial implications for the town, and editorial language used in the 36-page draft that is still under revision.
The residents suggested a comprehensive health survey was needed for WTOP to understand the health hazards of the turbines, and they expressed disbelief that some WTOP members would not acknowledge the negative impact of the turbines on the property values of their homes. One resident claimed she has abandoned her home due to its proximity to the turbines and the resulting health complications.
Read more: Wind turbines continue to divide Falmouth community – – Falmouth Bulletin http://www.wickedlocal.com/falmouth/news/x1353223685/Wind-turbines-continue-to-divide-Falmouth-community#ixzz2GGgwgTH1

By: ytreggah

ytreggah — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 15:51:00 +0000

On December 14,2011 just over one year ago Stephen E. Ambrose, INCE (Brd. Cert.) and Robert W. Rand, INCE Member introduced the “smoking gun” of noise reports. The study points out and confirms the adverse health effects of large industrial wind turbines.

Infrasound is defined in dictionaries today : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound

Next is the wind turbine noise study prepared for the Town of Falmouth,Massachusetts

The Bruce McPherson Infrasound and Low Frequency Noise Study:
http://randacoustics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/The-Bruce-McPherson-ILFN-Study.pdf