Comments - My comments on the Castine 1/8 scale test turbine and DOE repot submitted for the Aqua Ventus wind project - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T08:07:36Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A125456&xn_auth=noHere is a little more insight…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-02-22:4401701:Comment:1257322018-02-22T19:23:18.304ZJim Wiegandhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JimWiegand
<p>Here is a little more insight into the stupid little 20 kW test turbine and a comparison to the huge 6MW turbine planned the Aqua Ventus wind project. While the huge turbine may have 1150 times the cubic rotor sweep, the amount of killing rotor sweep is far greater. T<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;">he huge 6 MW turbine with the slower RPMs has a muchlarger killing areabecause birds can see past and through the spinning blades. With the small…</span></p>
<p>Here is a little more insight into the stupid little 20 kW test turbine and a comparison to the huge 6MW turbine planned the Aqua Ventus wind project. While the huge turbine may have 1150 times the cubic rotor sweep, the amount of killing rotor sweep is far greater. T<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;">he huge 6 MW turbine with the slower RPMs has a muchlarger killing areabecause birds can see past and through the spinning blades. With the small turbine birds will be clipped primarily on the outer edges of the blades. Birds will avoid most of center regions of te tiny turbine's rotor sweep because spinning at 100 RPMs, the sight plane is obstructed by the blur of the spinning blades. With the big turbines traveling at great speed but only rotating at about 12-18 RPMs over 50% of the blade length contributes to deadly sweep because birds are fooled and will try to fly through the rotation gaps. The industry has known all this for over 20 years but has covered it up because in their minds they need to sell their bigger turbines to America. So in reality when talking about deadly bird killing rotor sweep , the huge 6MW turbine planned for Monhegan Island, easily has several thousand times more deadly sweep than the stupid little UMaine 20 kW test turbine.</span></p> "Later after the turbines go…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-02-22:4401701:Comment:1254832018-02-22T06:47:09.486ZLong Islanderhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/LongIslander
<p>"<span>Later after the turbines go up they when asked how the turbines are so loud they just admit the "mistake" </span></p>
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<p><span>Sounds like "better to beg forgiveness than ask for permission" and "possession is 90% of the law". It's high time some of these shysters start going to jail.</span></p>
<p>"<span>Later after the turbines go up they when asked how the turbines are so loud they just admit the "mistake" </span></p>
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<p><span>Sounds like "better to beg forgiveness than ask for permission" and "possession is 90% of the law". It's high time some of these shysters start going to jail.</span></p> A word to the wise. In most…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2018-02-22:4401701:Comment:1256272018-02-22T02:12:29.482ZFrank Haggertyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/FrankHaggerty
<p> A word to the wise. In most of the Massachusetts wind turbine studies done to install wind turbines you have to look for what they do not put in the reports -not actually what is in them.</p>
<p>An example is 100 homes may be affected by noise - In Massachusetts this was what was in the Falmouth wind turbine study. The study before the Falmouth study they warned of two distinct types of noise "measured in decibels" and "human annoyance." They were not successful with warning about two…</p>
<p> A word to the wise. In most of the Massachusetts wind turbine studies done to install wind turbines you have to look for what they do not put in the reports -not actually what is in them.</p>
<p>An example is 100 homes may be affected by noise - In Massachusetts this was what was in the Falmouth wind turbine study. The study before the Falmouth study they warned of two distinct types of noise "measured in decibels" and "human annoyance." They were not successful with warning about two distinct types of noise so they just changed it to how many houses will be affected by noise. </p>
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<p> The other issue is the preliminary tests always show everything is OK --Later after the turbines go up they when asked how the turbines are so loud they just admit the "mistake" </p>
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<p>Look for what is not in the studies -Look at studies back around 2003 to 2005 </p>