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There are many hidden truths about the world of wind turbines from the pollution and environmental damage caused in China by manufacturing bird choppers, the blight on people's lives of noise and the flicker factor and the countless numbers of birds that are killed each year by these blots on the landscape.
The symbol of Green renewable energy, our saviour from the non existent problem of Global Warming, abandoned wind farms are starting to litter the planet as globally governments cut the subsidies taxes that consumers pay for the privilege of having a very expensive power source that does not work every day for various reasons like it's too cold or the wind speed is too high.
The US experience with wind farms has left over 14,000 wind turbines abandoned and slowly decaying, in most instances the turbines are just left as symbols of a dying Climate Religion, nowhere have the Green Environmentalists appeared to clear up their mess or even complain about the abandoned wind farms.
It will take a bit more time than originally hoped for to get five wind turbines up and running in Lake Erie.
Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation President Lorry Wagner says, "We definitely were a little over-ambitious. It's 2013. Our original goal was 2012."
There's still lots of work to do and lots of regulatory permits to obtain. Wagner says two or three are in hand with fifteen more needed.
The project need $100 million for turbines, plus more for a ship or ships to carry them.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
100% of our energy comes from the sun. Be it solar, atmospheric, geothermal, or fossil fuels.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
Wind Turbines rob energy from the atmosphere that would have served some other purpose.
Solar energy typically strikes the earth or is reflected back to the atmosphere. If we harness it, we change the dynamic.
Wave action can be captured, but at what effect on the ocean?
Geothermal can be exploited, but in order to get anywhere near the power we consume, what will it do to the inner processes of the Earth?
Originally posted by buddhasystem
reply to post by jibeho
You are linking to one of the more hardcore "global warming is a fiction" sites, and one that supports the idea that EPA should be eliminated and we need to drill drill drill.
[YAWN]Sorry, but I'll pass [/YAWN]
Since its creation in 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency has done more harm than good. EPA regulations cost more than 5 percent of our annual gross domestic product - the equivalent of the costs of defense and homeland security combined. Since EPA regulations have expanded, unemployment in America has increased by 33 percent. This abuse of power by the implementation of regulations infringes upon our basic constitutional rights.
Seventy-five percent of Americans believe that the size of the federal government must be reduced and with the imposition of such regulatory abuse, it is no wonder why. Americans are being treated as subjects of an administrative state rather than citizens of a free nation.
Pelamis (sea-snake in greek) electrical generators: giant steel tubes, 590 feet long, 13 feet in diameter and weighing 1433 tons. The four generators inside each Pelamis are filled with hundreds of gallons of hydrauic fluid, that is forced through turbines using the power of the motion of the sea to make electricity.
Up to forty of the 600 foot monsters are placed in an “array” – that industry PR men also like to call “wave farms.” Each “array” covers a couple of square miles of ocean.
Originally posted by mugger
reply to post by DrumsRfun
Tell me the acreage it takes up, to start? It takes up more than people think or even what the government puts out for their data.I have seen the mills up close, it decimates the land around them and makes it inert. It is no different than mining, fracking or whatever else.
Who is paying for all the start up costs? It is not a free enterprise. They can pay their own way as everyone else.
Add in the lack of regulation and we have a mixture for another raping of the country and the citizens that actually own the sites.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
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Wind Turbines rob energy from the atmosphere that would have served some other purpose. If we get anywhere near a significant amount of energy from it, then we have surely affected the natural cycles in the atmosphere.
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Originally posted by getreadyalready
Wow these responses are frightening!
.edit on 21-11-2011 by getreadyalready because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Aliensun
Can we has independent verification that 14000 turbines have truly been "abandoned?
that is an awful lot. Your source is not a good source for that data since it is heavily biased to say the least. At the wind farms ar still being built!
I stand in the center on this issure. There are pros and cons aboout the turbines that have not been fully addressed before they started handing out money fo outfits to throw them up. --And much of that money went to China for the turbines.