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The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 4 – Windplants are highly efficient and provide power for significant numbers of homes.
Stop Ill Wind drills another hole in the industrial wind boat. #4. Windplants are highly efficient and provide power for significant numbers of homes. The press often prints this inflated fiction as truth. It’s actually a throwback to the 1940s … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 5 – Wind technology is noiseless and creates few disturbances.
From stopillwind.org # 5. Wind technology is noiseless and creates few disturbances. Tall wind turbines in concert with each other, especially those sited on prominent ridgetops, create profound noise reverberations extending out for more than a mile, sounding like “a … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 6 – Windplants will reduce the mining/burning of fossil fuels and lessen dependence on foreign oil.
From stopillwind.org #6. Windplants will reduce the mining/burning of fossil fuels and lessen dependence on foreign oil. Nonsense. Here are the facts: Foreign Oil Wind only generates electricity. Electricity generation is only part of our energy production. Sixty percent of … Continue reading
Just a little reminder – wind won’t replace coal. Sorry, but it’s just a fact!
Which begs the question … what the heck will it do? Anyway, FactCheck.org writes in its article, Hot Air on Wind Energy – “Don’t expect wind power to replace coal as the nation’s main source of electric power, whatever Obama’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ken Salazar, wind replace fossil fuel, Wind v Coal
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The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 7 – Industrial wind developers are interested only in providing a public service
From StopIllWind – Drop by for a huge library of facts about Industrial Wind Energy. #7. Industrial wind developers are interested only in providing a public service. All the false and misleading claims which this industry makes for itself work … Continue reading
A Conversation with Jon Boone – Industrial Wind and the Environment
We again welcome to our forum Jon Boone, an environmentalist with much knowledge about the wind industry. A few weeks ago, he spoke about wind technology as a problematic supplier of energy in A Conversation with Jon Boone – Toward … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 8 – Wind technology consists of “wind mills” on “wind farms.”
Another gem from StopIllWind – Drop by for a huge library of facts about Industrial Wind Energy. Number 8 – Wind technology consists of “wind mills” on “wind farms.” As if 400-foot tall differentially moving turbines were bucolic Dutch windmills, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dutch windmills, wind farms, windmills
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The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” False and Misleading Claims … Number 9 – “Those who are concerned about windpower are not true environmentalists”
I’d thought about waiting a day or two before posting the environmental illusion, but this showed up in an email interchange – “Wishful thinking about reducing dependence on fossil fuels should not be an excuse for becoming an environmental terrorist,” … Continue reading
The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” False and Misleading Claims … Number 10 – “Locals who oppose the wind industry are NIMBYS”
Over the next few weeks, courtesy of Jon Boone’s Stop Ill Wind web site, we’ll count down the windpower industry’s “top ten” illusions. To begin, since many of us who continue to ask questions are considered such, we present: Number … Continue reading
California has a novel idea to protect birds and bats. Don’t build wind plants where they fly! UPDATE: VIDEO SHOWS WHY!
Video link courtesy of Jon Boone: Now to the original text: According to the Californian.com, a new “Report paves way for wildlife-friendly wind power in Monterey County.” So, exactly how do they achieve this ground-breaking harmony between endangered species and … Continue reading
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