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How do you feel about homeowners protesting electric generating wind turbines?

How do you feel about homeowners protesting electric generating wind turbines?

  • Wiind energy is great & complainers should adapt.

    Votes: 20 35.1%
  • Wiind turbines are good & property owners should be justly compensated for decrease property value

    Votes: 8 14.0%
  • I think Obama is an idiot

    Votes: 5 8.8%
  • I'd be upset if wind turbines went up interfering with my view

    Votes: 3 5.3%
  • The wind turbines should not be allowed to disrupt views

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • I think George W Bush ruined this nation

    Votes: 3 5.3%
  • Other, please explain

    Votes: 17 29.8%

  • Total voters
    57
I think their concerns should be more than just aesthetic reasons. They should also be concerned about a storm--tornado,etc--slinging one of those 90 foot blades through their living room.

What part of the country is this located in? I live in a country with a lot of typhoons and I have never heard of any problems with the many wind turbines in this country due to typhoons or earthquakes for that matter, both of which we have in abundance in Taiwan.
 
What part of the country is this located in? I live in a country with a lot of typhoons and I have never heard of any problems with the many wind turbines in this country due to typhoons or earthquakes for that matter, both of which we have in abundance in Taiwan.

Yea most of the American made wind turbines are rated in excess of 120 mph.
I don't think that will be a common thing.:lol:
 
I put other. I've heard that windfarms cause a constant humming noise that can drive some people crazy. That would be worse than just the looks of them. Besides they kill birds. Where's the outrage from the environmentalists.
Also, I thought progressives were all about moving forward instead of back.

I have ridden my bike past a couple of wind-farms on the west coast of Taichung and Changhua counties and I have never heard this humming noise you are talking about... I have also never seen dead birds in their vicinity.
 
If you have good constant class 2 winds or better, you can rely on wind energy for your home easily.
There are certain areas of the country where that is a very good investment.

Actually, she is paid by the windmill company $1000 monthly to allow 2 (very large) windmills to be built and operate on her property.
 
That's really cool, can't go wrong with it.
I thought so. That's a substantial check. Obviously, she has acreage in a high wind area. We drove by the windmills today on our way home, and I talked to a young lady running a fruit stand. They look like this:

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Wind turbines are a waste of time and money. It would take hundreds of them to generate the energy of just one coal fired plant. The coal fired plant could not be shut down because wind cannot be counted upon. You cannot fire up a coal fired plant by flipping a switch. It would have to be on standby during windy periods. Since climate change is a fraud, wind turbines are totally unnecessary.
 
Wind turbines are a waste of time and money. It would take hundreds of them to generate the energy of just one coal fired plant. The coal fired plant could not be shut down because wind cannot be counted upon. You cannot fire up a coal fired plant by flipping a switch. It would have to be on standby during windy periods. Since climate change is a fraud, wind turbines are totally unnecessary.

Thanks for your expert opinion... ;)
 
The owners of the windmills should be forced to pay royalties, the same way the oil companies do.

oil companies pay royalties based on the fact that they are drilling from under land that they do not own. Why should I pay royalties for a small wind turbine which is generating energy largely for my personal use on my own property?

You are comparing apples and oranges...
 
I've spoken with people who work in power generation. Wind turbines are very nearly useless as a large-scale source of power. When you consider the amount of power required to make the components, and the amount of power required to maintain the wind turbines and produce replacement parts for them, factor in the man-hours that go into same, the irregularity of the wind, etc.... the net production of electricity is low. Efficiency is low, VERY low compared to nuclear.

Even solar, with its high startup costs, is better because it is more predictable and the maintenance costs are far lower.

Wind turbines are little more than a green publicity stunt.

I suppose it depends on where you live. I live in a country which has abudant and reliable supplies of wind, tidal, solar, and geothermal energy. We are doing a better and better job of harnessing both wind and solar, but not so much yet with tidal and geothermal. Of course, we also have nuclear -- three plants online with a fourth to be put online in the near future...
 
The turbines are built in areas that are consistently windy. The power goes into the power grid along with the electricity from other sources.
 
Yea most of the American made wind turbines are rated in excess of 120 mph.
I don't think that will be a common thing.:lol:

We get at least one storm a year with winds in excess of that... sometimes more ... and I have never heard of a problem... We have more problems from our hydroelectric dams in typhoons than we ever do from our windfarms...
 
Here's an interesting video about wind farms
 
Well give me an example of exactly what your talking about in a residential area? I mean I don't think anyone is actually talking about the 200ft tall generators. Even the poll question says nothing specific about that.

Westfield - Ripley New York area in Western New York along the escarpment.
 
Wind turbines are a failed technoledgy, and have no place in a neighborhood. They're an eyesore, a noise poluter, and do not genorate electriciy relyably.

Without a mercy of doubt, this is being said "tongue-in-cheek".
Or, with a droplet or two of sarcasm.
 
Wind turbines are a waste of time and money. It would take hundreds of them to generate the energy of just one coal fired plant. The coal fired plant could not be shut down because wind cannot be counted upon. You cannot fire up a coal fired plant by flipping a switch. It would have to be on standby during windy periods. Since climate change is a fraud, wind turbines are totally unnecessary.

Wind turbines do not emit cancer causing smoke. Would you rather live next to a coal generating plant or a wind turbine?
 
Wind turbine apparently make a noise that effects animals.
 
the funny thing is, people who say wind power is unreliable, 'cause the wind stops blowing, don;t take into consideration that when the flow of coal stops, it won't start up again like the wind will, for a reliable source of power, i think a combination of wind, solar and hydro-electric power would see to all our needs, without the environmental trouble that comes with coal.
 
In my city, we have power outages all of the time...brownouts, especially during the summer months when demand is high. I'd think it would be a selling point to have a consistent, cheap supply of electricity. I love my solar water heater. :shrug:
 
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