UMO bird scientists show danger of wind farms in Maine!
on birds and wind power last week in Bangor given by some scientists at
UMO. They showed how tons of birds could be affected by wind farms in
different ways at different places around the state. You should get
them to talk to your local groups about this.....contact the biology
department - I think the head scientist was a Dr. Holberton
(spelling?). It was a good talk and will make the wind companies sit up!
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Comment by Ron Huber on March 7, 2010 at 11:33am
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Very useful though terrible information. The poor Italian birds... 'Fans without cages' That about captures it.
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Comment by Long Islander on March 7, 2010 at 9:19am
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Stan - great points on the tip speeds of the turbine blades. After reading your comment, I did a little googling and found some more interesting reading on this. For example:
"From miles away the blades look rather slow, but up close these huge blades move faster than a guillotine...This is the danger that is facing bird life across this land. High-velocity fans without cages. Sadly the red kite has just about disappeared from the Italian countryside because of these turbines. A woman from Nebraska called me yesterday because a wind farm is now planned for the habitat of the critically endangered whooping crane. This is all really Wall Street at work reaping profits from its outdated wind turbine technology...The actual avian death toll coming to Hatchet Ridge we will never know because it will be deliberately concealed, just as it is at virtually every wind farm in America."
http://www.redding.com/news/2009/mar/05/letters-to-the-editor-march...
"Many people, including myself, have been claiming an industry-wide conspiracy exists to cover up the staggering number of birds that are killed at wind farms each year. When the tens of thousands of turbines planned for America are placed in all the wind corridors, what has happened in Spain will end up looking like a picnic by comparison...The wind industry has spent millions and millions on a “green energy” campaign that is nothing but a lie...A recent report from Spain published by SEO/BirdLife claims that as many as one million birds a year perish at the wind farms in Spain. The report also claims that as many as 64 birds are killed by each prop-style wind turbine per year. This report strongly contradicts the published mortality figures reported by the wind industry in America. Environmental data in this country claims that at most 10 birds a year are killed by each prop-style turbine. These same understated figures will be put in any environmental impact reports...The public perception of wind turbines is that of slow moving blades turning in the wind on a ridge line. The power and danger of the prop design wind turbine is not well understood. Probably the hardest aspect for the public to grasp is that of “tip speed.”...The speed and power of these blades is what amputates the wings and heads off flying eagles. From miles away the blades look rather slow but up close these huge blades move faster than a guillotine."
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/04/20/turbine-blade-tip-speed-i...
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Comment by Stan Wood on March 6, 2010 at 6:09pm
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Hello Monique and Steve : I liked your editorial page comments. I have been involved in the Swan Lake watershed hydro project since 1979 when people were screaming about the virtues of hydro. Grants were rubber stamped and FERC came out swinging on those who presented an obstacle. The Town of Swanville was defined as an obstacle as we maintained the plan was over ambitious. Production figures were based on "design capacity" and we challenging the project's cost benefit. Our attorney did well having hydrological studies and proving our points. We still came out on the short end of the stick and Maine Hydro was issued a 40 year license with CMP paying a premium 12 cents a KWH. More recently hydro projects are routinely rejected for the migratory fish trade off, contracts were bought out and reissued at less than 6 cents.
But this is about wind power. The Bangor News says the turbine propellor lengths are 122 feet. Assuming a radius of 125 feet including the turbine the circumference would be ((pi*2)*r) or 785 feet per tip revolution. Propellors turning at a moderate 30 RPMs, a revolution each two seconds. Results are 785/2 = 391 feet of tip traveled per second. 391*60 = 23,460 feet per minute. 23,460*60 minutes = 1,409,400 feet per hour. Propeller tip speeds of 270 miles per hour. I would not want cars traveling 240 MPH going by my house plus this speed is letal to any living creature. I find it reasonable to expect faster RPM,s. I have not seen this made as a point. Also, anything traveling at over 200 MPH will be less than silent and can hardly claim innocence.
Stan Wood
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Comment by Joanne Moore on March 6, 2010 at 2:42pm
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When I stop to think about all the devastation industrial wind has created and will create if it is not stopped, I get really angry at people like Baldacci and King and others who would kill off our birds on land and in the Gulf of Maine with their vile wind turbines. Men like them have no souls, or if they do they must be little, dried up, raisin-like pieces of stone. Thanks, Scarlett for posting this information.
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Long Islander - I just found the newer UMO Bird Lab web link: http://sbe.umaine.edu/avian/
this seems to be a newer version.
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You can read up on the University of Maine Laboratory of Avian Biology at the following link.
http://www2.umaine.edu/avian/index.htm
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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