Category Archives: Windpower Industry False Claims

The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” false and misleading claims … Number 8 – Wind technology consists of “wind mills” on “wind farms.”

Posted on November 9, 2009 by morgan

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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The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” False and Misleading Claims … Number 9 – “Those who are concerned about windpower are not true environmentalists”

Posted on November 3, 2009 by morgan

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 →

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The Windpower Industry’s “top ten” False and Misleading Claims … Number 10 – “Locals who oppose the wind industry are NIMBYS”

Posted on November 2, 2009 by morgan

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 →

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