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Construction underway on wind farm
Construction is underway on Brown County’s first industrial wind farm.
Proposal in talks for new wind farm off Block Island
Deepwater Wind has reached a new power-purchase agreement with National Grid, which involves building a wind farm off the coast of Block Island. Regulators rejected an earlier contract in fear that would cost ratepayers too much money.
John Stossel Wind Power and NIMBY
From 2003, NIMBY and NRDC attempted to block wind farms off of Nantukett.
Global warming and use of fossil fuels?
The British government has announced that a wind farm will be erected in Essex giving power to 1/4 million homes.
In terms of reducing fossil fuels, every house in the country could be fitted with solar panels on the roof over the next 5 to 10 year period, creating jobs for installation and lowering our energy bill and decreasing the burning of fossil fuels.
Does anyone agree with this idea or have any ideas on what we can do. I’m getting ideas to write to the government on?
It would be great for developing countries, but as a “world leader” we should be leading the way. A mass change can be achieved, when i was very young i can still remember 4 star leaded petrol being used by all cars, when the change to unleaded was fazed in their was grumbles but now in 2006 every car is unleaded.
I believe a 10 year plan can be drawn up with tax incentives and grants to achieve this. Solar panels are not heavy and can be fitted directly onto most existing structures in the UK, then it is a case of the electrics, rough estimates from electricians i know say it could all be achieved in 1 day, for 1 house.
Thanks for your opinions so far, and i know some people believe climate change is part of the earths cycle, it may be, but not with the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that we dump.
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Wind Turbine Shadow Flicker and Noise, Byron Wisconsin
When industrial wind turbines which are 40 stories tall are sited too close to people’s home there is trouble with noise and shadow flicker. Wind developers deny these problems exist and in the state of Wisconsin want to put them 1000 feet from houses. That’s 350 steps. This video shows what happens when wind turbines are irresponsibly sited. The nation is slowly waking up to the downside of wind energy. Developers lie to residents about the impacts these machines will have on the landowners and neighbor’s lives. They take advantage of those of us who want to do the right thing for our environment by telling us there will be no problem with noise, no problem with shadows, and no problem with putting turbines in bird migration flyways. The truth will out, eventually. For the residents in the town of Byron, Fond du Lac county, the truth is what they live with every single day. There is a place for wind energy. It’s just not beside a person’s home.