Huge energy spill threatens no one.

[Scuba]

[edhopper]

1. Last Summer

there was sunlight flooding all over the place.
Oh the Humanity!

[seveneyes]

2. Judge sides, for now, with Falmouth wind turbine foes

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131021/NEWS/310210314/

Muse said he needed more information on the town's claims of economic harm that would be caused by limiting the turbines operation or shutting them down outright. He also wants more information from the Andersons about the harm directly caused by the continuing operation of the turbines.

[NYC_SKP]

3. How many residents are actually complaining? Two???

What a shame, meanwhile fossil fuel generation enjoys zero complaints by these citizens.

How convenient.

[badtoworse]

4. Looks like they did a crappy job siting them.

There are recommended setbacks for wind turbines to avoid problems like this and in many localities, they're required by law. Typically, the setbacke are at least 500 feet and requirements as high as 1000 feet are not unusual. If the town didn't have enough land and took a screw the neighbors attitude, they deserve to be shut down.

[Glassunion]

5. No... This is what it looks like. (pic heavy)

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. One locally did that recently

and the second project is not generating power either due to ironically (and known to residents) lack of winds.

But these days I refuse to post anything that has to do with this. I just (and I am not religious) pray that we do not have a turbine fire in the middle of a Santa Anna.

[Glassunion]

8. I'm out east, so the chance of a fire spreading are minimal.

I am aware that wind does kill wildlife, mainly bats and birds. However I feel it is the lesser of evils. Solar is not the best up here, especially in winter. But I'll take wind over coal, nuclear, natural gas, etc...

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. The problem is where some of these facilities have been sited

and recently one of the guys doing all the bird studies showing less bird takes was convicted of fraud in his reports of... bird takes. But I refuse to post that here. It is like a religion that wind has no down sides.

Like all technologies, it has it's down sides.

[Egnever]

11. Wow

Those are some crazy pics

[Glassunion]

13. Still safer than the non-renewable alternatives.

[SidDithers]

7. Careful. Those things can explode and throw their blades more than a mile...

and don't even get me started on the cancer clusters caused by stray voltage.



Sid

[jmowreader]

9. A hurricane also qualifies as a wind spill

I've helped recover from four of them. They cause major destruction.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

12. Ever heard of Katrina? N.T.