Farmers foolish enough to enter contracts with wind power outfits soon live to regret it. Having their land permanently contaminated by shredded fibreglass when turbines explode into balls of flame and/or their blades merely disintegrate (known in the trade as “component liberation”) is just one of a list of disasters waiting to happen.
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Green energy and fossil fuels are rising hand in hand. The growth-based climate framework is fundamentally broken.
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America’s wind industry is moaning about the lack of wind, much like the Ancient Mariner becalmed and befuddled by the weather.
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The claim that spreading wind turbines far and wide means you’ll have power around-the-clock is just more wind industry myth. Australia’s Eastern Grid provides all the evidence required to render that story plainly risible – and it can all be done with pictures.
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Solar energy is terrible for the environment in a number of ways, including the fact that large land areas must be devoted to it. At Forbes, Michael Shellenberger highlights another problem with solar energy: it produces vast quantities of hazardous waste, which are not being adequately dealt with.
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We are going to have to dramatically downsize the dream of a future in which we replace 150-year-old fossil fuel infrastructure with “clean energy” by 2050. That’s the message in a number of recent important reports and books. They underscore a number of problems with the renewables illusion, including the complexity of the task, the…
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Over the past years many landowners In Douglas County have been approached by Nextera Energy for lease and easement agreements on their land. Some have signed, most have not. Many people in the County have not even been aware that solicitation has been occurring for building industrial scale wind turbines. Often people are distressed that…
Learn moreWind turbine blades are made of fiberglass and are held together with epoxy resin. The epoxy resin contains bisphenol phosphate (BPAs). These particles are commonly known as microplastics, and they are spread through the air by the wind turbines as they delaminate over time (1). These invisible particles then end up in crops, grass and…
Learn moreMy wife and I purchased our home in 1991 near Waverly, Kansas, in Coffey County. It is a half mile section road so there is little to no traffic. Over the years we have purchased other properties on this road, so we now own 235 acres on both sides of the road from our house…
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Wind energy agreements pose financial potential for landowners, but do create legal risk. Beforeentering into an agreement a landowner should have the agreement carefully evaluated todetermine if the financial benefits of the agreement truly outweigh the associated risk.
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ESI Energy Inc. (ESI) was sentenced today in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for violations of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA), announced Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney L. Robert Murray for the District of Wyoming.
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Energy Engineer Bill Acker on the dangers of wind turbines.
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The town of Forest, WI has concerns over the end results of the Highland Wind Farm. Forest has spent more than half-a-million dollars fighting the project at the Public Service Commission. The devastation from the Shirley Wind Farm is a prime example as to why the town is fighting this project.
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“I am not from Douglas County, but I do live in the Kansas Reading Wind Farm. Not far from the windfarm office. At first, I was excited about the idea of the windfarm but when the process started, I realized this was in no way going to be a positive project for our community. First,…
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Several studies have shown that industrial wind turbines produce infrasound. It is produced by the gigantic blades passing the pole in a roughly 180-degree arc. The taller the pole, the greater the swath of infrasound. Infrasound is a sound below the normal hearing level. Dr. Mariana Alves-Pereira, who has studied infrasound for 30 years in…
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Wind energy generators are in rural locations for the simple reason that they need to be out in the open. That means construction companies must use gravel and asphalt surfaced roads to reach the many construction sites of the wind farm. This presents several problems to the people responsible for maintaining those roads.
Learn moreA Jackson County Highway Engineer, was among a group of engineers from across southern Minnesota, has examined the issues associated with the large loads hauling wind turbine parts through the county, and the toll those heavy loads are taking on the road system.
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Thousands and thousands of birds and bats are killed from wind turbines every year. The blades of the tower spin very fast, which either kills the airborne creature upon impact, or disorients it into a fatal-fall. Wind turbines are responsible for bird deaths around the world. In the United States alone it is estimated the…
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Utility-Scale Solar is a threat to our counties valuable agricultural zoning and Agri-tourism. Let’s preserve and protect our quality of life, economic growth, wildlife, agricultural land use, environment, health, safety, and rich history. Learn more about Utility-Scale Solar and how it can affect you. Here are some informative subjects and their websites for your convenience.…
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Leading edge erosion is well a known and problematic issue with commercial wind turbine blades. Erosion is the reason that turbine blades need to be replaced considerably more often that the industry’s proclaimed life of 20 years. Erosion is caused by dust, rain, snow, hail, bird/bat/insect strikes and wind friction. Modern turbines can reach speeds…
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Wind energy is terribly inefficient (approximately 35%) and requires another source of energy as a backup. The backup power must enable utilities to balance power grids when wind conditions aren’t optimum, which is often. All existing solar and wind power must have fossil fuel back up, while solar and wind power cannot be used as…
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We get our drinking water from surface and groundwater. It is a precious natural resource we cannot live without. Water quality and wind turbines do not mix. The wind turbines can have a negative affect the groundwater. Let’s look at the wind turbine. The steel tower of an industrial wind turbine is anchored in a…
Learn more“We have an acquaintance who is a crop duster based in Kansas, but works in several neighboring states also. When he was asked how the wind mill farms affected his business he gave several examples of negative issues. First of all, he said that he can’t guarantee the land owner that the treatment that he…
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