The wind salesmen who invaded Malone actually had their lawyers write a zoning ordinance to govern themselves and then tried clandestinely to sneak it into the Planning Board as a sample from another town. One provision would have allowed 400’ high turbines less than 500’ from a home.
In testing its own turbines GE found their overall net efficiency to be 10 percent!
On Samsø, a 55 kW Nordtank threw a blade through a window into an indoor swimming pool, according to one knowledgeable source.
We do not feel it makes sense to tackle one environmental problem by creating another
Nowhere can I find any mention of reservations expressed by either knowledgeable organisations or those who wish to protect the environment. Instead the Committee urges the Government to even greater efforts to produce a wholly unworkable electricity supply system to the ruination of the landscape.
A five-fold increase in wind turbines would only replace 1/1000th of the fossil fuel use in the UK.
In the mid-1990s, 14 men had been killed on wind turbines or working with wind energy. Since then six more have died, including the first member of the public, a parachutist who literally flew into a turbine in Germany.
If you weighed Zephyr, our wind turbine, it would tip the scale at a hefty 90 to 100 tons - about the same as 20 elephants.
We shall not be seduced by what appears to be 'green' renewable energy solutions which will make little real difference to fossil use. We are particularly concerned about wind energy...
To us these windfarms are a disaster in the countryside, we know their effect on ‘global warming’ is pathetically tiny, but to the Government they are seen as ‘proof positive’ to a gullible populace that something really is being done to reduce CO2 emissions.
