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Webinar Invitation: Wind Turbine Syndrome - Myths and Facts, Thurs. Feb. 11 at 11am EST
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What's below is sponsored by a pro-wind government sponsored "working group" here in Michigan. Be sure it will be a hatchet job. May be it's time for the rest of us to show up in force to make a po…

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Charlie commented on Long Islander's blog post 'Wind Turbine Syndrome meets Hollywood'

apparenlty the noise issue is being raised to a national issue. http://betterplan.squarespace.com/todays-special/2010/3/5/5510-the-noise-heard-round-the-world-and-a-look-at-the-futur.html In my neighborhood lives a retired British accoustics engine…

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Charlie commented on Ron Huber's blog post 'Nearshore wind wannabes at Maine Fishermen's Forum face grimly silent lobstermen, scallopers, shrimpers'

Like Maine, here in Michigan, there is a big push for wind farms on land and on the Lakes. My view is the folks with inland problems need to increase the number of NIMBYs to the largest number possible as fast as possible. The offshore issue is an e…

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Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

THAT'S IT!!! And thanks for giving me a much needed laugh.

March 1

Long Islander commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

Joanne - do you mean Al Goreleone?

March 1

Charlie commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

Joanne, Europe signed the Kyoto treaty, america didn't. Europe has cap and trade, america doesn't. Windmills were state of the art technology throughout Europe (in the Middle Ages). America doesn't have that experience. Since there's no stomach in A…

March 1

Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

Ha! Love it, Long Islander! The mob indeed. The Wind Mafia! Adept at extortion, lies and bribery. But, I still want to know what group devised this scheme in the first place. Where did the idea come from? It involves nearly every nation so there mu…

March 1

Long Islander commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

Electricity is wonderful, but in some ways it is like heroin - and most of us are addicted. The wind power invasion of Maine is not dissimilar to new people muscling in on the heroin trade. They know that if they can carve themselves a piece of the…

March 1

Lisa Lindsay commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

Wow, thank you for posting these links . Joanne, you are right. This is so hard. But what is the expression about the the most difficult choice is usually the right choice? At least, that is what I keep telling myself.

March 1

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March 1

Joanne Moore commented on Charlie's blog post 'self guided wind farm tours with google earth'

I must say that I just spent a few moments in deep, deep despair. It almost got to me, the scope of the cartel we are up against is staggering. I wrote awhile back sort of tongue-in-cheek that we were being invaded but now I am in dead earnest - we…

February 28

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self guided wind farm tours with google earth

Google Earth has collected "street view" imagery for a high percentage of America and Europe's rural areas and most of that work has been done very recently so street view can be used to explore many existing wind farms. Below are some screen shots…

February 28

Charlie commented on Dan McKay's blog post 'Math On Highland Plantation Project'

I listened to an industry webinar about offshore wind. One of the speakers said offshore is about twice as expenseive as on shore. Conservation is the best bang for the buck in the short run. There's virtually no discussion of that. Instead we are s…

February 26

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Good news for the NIMBY's, reinforcements are on the way.

February 24

Ron Huber commented on Charlie's photo 'Monhegan'

A possible future that need never be.

February 22

Charlie and Art Brigades are now friends

February 21

Charlie commented on Charlie's photo 'Monhegan'

Yes, I make these Look at my total collection and you'll see a model of Mars Hill with turbines and with a 'turbine invader' version because, with a name like Mars Hill, that's impossible to resist. The models are reletively easy to make depending..…

February 21

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self guided wind farm tours with google earth

Below are some screen shots of a 250 turbine wind farm near Zeewolde, Netherlands. The wind farm is old enough that GE imagery shows the turbine pads. To explore the wind farm go to Layers in Google Earth and turn on "street view". Then go to Gallery and turn o

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Posted on February 28, 2010 at 6:50pm — 7 Comments

Good news for the NIMBY's, reinforcements are on the way.

The Nimby club is about to get a LOT larger because a Canadian developer has proposed to put 165 windmills on Lake St. Clair. This may be the first time in the US there is a proposal to put windmills in full view of a major metropolitian area and on water as precious to the locals as Nantucket Sound is to people on the east coast. (Where are those native american sunrise worshipers when you need them.)

Suppose the Canadian side of the lake is fully developed wiith turbines. For

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At 9:13pm on February 12, 2010, Ron Huber said…: What I envision, is two mills in the middle distance, and a forest of windmills in the background.
The two mills are in state waters, just beyond is federal waters, where the Ocean energy Institute wants to build an untold number of windmills in their quest for ....ammonia!