Farms: Science in the City: Altamont Wind Farms

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1. 4:32 Siemens 2.5 Megawatt
2. This is old the bird issue has been addressed.
3. I wish I could go there and film it myself! Watch Windmills of Oklahoma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKdW0aCALQo Comment, like and SUBSCRIBE!
4. Wind turbines were somewhat benign when limited to areas like Altamont (if one ignored the bird kills) but now they are just too big and widespread to be green in a rational context. The excuses made for their visual and audible impact are evil in many ways. These are gigantic structures infiltrating millions of acres of scenery. Why in the hell is that suddenly good for the environment? In pure economic terms, they barely perform as stated (wind is erratic) and require 24/7 traditional power backup because of that. When the industry says a wind "farm" will power "75,000 homes" it will only do that about 30% of the time in most cases, and often not when the power is truly needed, so that figure is very misleading.
5. I want to build one.
6. the ugliest things in the industrial history
7. Did you notice that a lot of turbines are not turning. The wind turbies pictured are incredible maintenance hogs. AC or DC they always have a governor mechanism similar to the "constant speed" governors on many prop-driven airplanes. Aviatirs will tell you these (much smaller) constant speed props are very difficult and expensive to maintain.
   
   Plus...you have to find daredevils to work at that height in that much wind.
8. watch top 10 countries by wind power generation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FHK8ALN3Hk
9. All Fossil fuel companies need to transition to “ENERGY” companies and embrace safer, cleaner and cheaper alternative energy.
   Wind Power Now Cheaper Than Natural Gas for Xcel, CEO Says – Renewable Energy World
   http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/articles/2015/10/wind-power-now-cheaper-than-natural-gas-for-xcel-ceo-says.html
10. You can have now your OWN Wind Power Farm on the screen of your phone with this beautiful live wallpaper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softieriders.wind
11. Wind energy is the future. There are always people clinging to the past. We are putting up thousands of turbines a year. You can't see the future, it's ok, we can. Thousands a year, thousands...
12. Out of all human hazards that kill birds 
    Buildings kill 55% of birds 
    Power lines about 15% 
    Domestic cats 10%
    Collisions with wind vehicles 10%
    Litter and pesticides about 9%
    And the remaining 1% is "other"
    10% of this "other" is from wind turbines
13. New tecnologie, watch TERMOLIC.
14. Have any of you seen this?
    
    
    http://www.businessinsider.com/solar-panel-makers-grappling-with-waste-2013-2
    
    http://www.businessinsider.com/a-chinese-solar-plant-is-shut-down-after-4-days-of-violent-protests-over-pollution-2011-9
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HSQYZSiu34
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSnzXo_1N-o
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw2qlYxeSj4
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tz9rrtRG8g
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaP-NySKjeo
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html
    
    
    
    http://tinyurl.com/q4r5cuz
    
    http://tinyurl.com/kc5wx8r
    
    http://tinyurl.com/oyka5l9
    
    http://tinyurl.com/pmpxvqp
    
    http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/wind-energy-firm-sues-block-bird-death-data-release/
    http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/03/are-your-solar-panels-toxic
    
    http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/the-ugly-side-o.html
    
    https://www.stanford.edu/group/sjir/pdf/Solar_11.2.pdf
    http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/solar-energy-isnt-always-as-green-as-you-think
    
    
    
    
    Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
15. +The Phantom Philosopher Don't put too much stock in the opinion of a homeopath.
16. The whoosh of the blades generates VAD (vibroacoustic disease), and is destructive due to the ILFN (infrasound and low-frequency noise) at even the mile to six mile range, some cite twelve miles, for living creatures, including people. Flicker from the blades cause problems such as seizures. The EMF (electric and magnetic field) effect is horrendous. These turbines use significant fuel energy if actually applied to a grid, requiring load compensation due to their non-dispatchable output. In fact, the units produce such a poor quality output it typically can only be counted as 'energy credits', not power for the grid. These towers and turbines should be placed in the city, really . . . but no one wants these in their city and I wouldn't actually wish it on them because they are not worth the cost, effort and losses they induce.
    
    So, they disrupt and poison the farm lands. They need to be cooled and need to be lit and need to be heavily lubed with oils and greases that need to be frequently replaced and should (properly) stay in motion so they don't break (which requires conventional power). The blades break regularly, requiring dangerous maintenance or replacement, and the mega-towers are even more costly to replace than their 'tiny' predecessors, so much so that it just isn't happening ... they are dangerous equipment (and rather ugly) when they reside rusting on the countryside.
17. I like these things. Also, did you know that more birds are killed by cats each year than by wind turbines?
18. clean energy is good.
19. Doug, Watch for my next article. I am going to explain very clearly how Altamont Pass is concealing tens of thousand of fatalities each year. My estimate is that Altamont is killing over 50,000 birds and bats per year. Across North America the industry uses similar but different tactics(which I will also provide) to hide millions of fatalities each year. 
20. I can not stress this enough to people...........From what I have see from looking at wind industry mortality studies, this industry and our wildlife agencies are so corrupt they might as well all be selling used cars with their odometers turned back at least 90% because this is how bad it really is. A generation ago these were the people we incarcerated and ran out of our neighborhoods. Now these same people have been put on a path of massive industrial blight and extinction of species.