I’d like to gather peoples opinions on wind farms as part of my Coursework?
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at
5:46 pm
I'd like to know how you feel about them, are they a good idea or do you hate them? please leave a little detail as to why you like them and why you don't. thank you 
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how could anyone NOT think wind farms are a GREAT idea?
only oil and coal companies would have a problem with wind turbines
they are pretty, i think, they dont make any noise, and they produce all that electricity without taxing any natural resources!
if people say they are ugly… i say… are they any uglier than the thousands of oil rigs that were once littered across america? that didnt seem to bother anyone
I really hate them. I live in a very windy area and so I don’t see why we need to produce even more. What’s the point of creating even more wind? Plus those unsightly windmills that create the wind look terrible.
I’m all for them! Some people complain that they are unsightly, but then so is a coal mine! Fields full of oil rigs aren’t exactly pretty either!
My biggest concern is the impact on the wildlife in the area; I’m not sure what that result would be. Especially on birds… But I’m sure there is a compromise to be had with some work and study.
It is a great idea. My brother in law wanted to put up several in South Dakota near Rapid City but was blocked by an environmental group because birds might fly into them.
i’m an electrician and i can tell you with confidence that they are not very good . they are on average 5% efficient.
if you do some research you will find that many people have invented ways to make energy for free, but they are either denyed patents or they are murdered and their research is confiscated.
if you control the energy, you control the world.
in the 70’s a man called Bruce De-palma from my country (New Zealand) developed what he called the N-machine.
When the N-machine was originally disclosed to the public, careful testing revealed output electrical power exceeding equivalent input mechanical power by 5 – 7.7:1
He applied for a patent, but was denied because the machine didn’t obey the laws of physics as todays western scientists understand it.
Nikola Tesla, the man who developed the A.C power system we use today, developed his system to supply all electricity to everyone for free without using any wires, but he was ripped off by Thomas Edison who was funding his research. Mr Edison stole his idea’s and pulled his funding then spread rumours that Tesla was crazy. They then destroyed all his inventions and burnt down his laboratory.
Edison knew that he would make alot of money if he was to charge for energy rather than give it away for free.
Tesla ended up dying as a poor and lonely man. upon his death, the CIA broke into his house and stole all the rest of his research, then burnt his house down.
whoops was that off topic
OK in moderation, but too many can be visually scaring on the landscape. If opportunity exists, offshore versions (like off the UK) are a better alternative.
Personally, my vote goes to generation of renewable energy by the underwater wave technology. Not so visible & creates aquatic habitat in the process.
For businessmen, like coal trading, they might think it is a good idea, it helps to improve the surrounding, not just only to pollute the surrounding. However, they still want to continue the business in coal. Perhaps just to earn more money and enjoy life. From the overall, it is good.
They’re a good idea. Once built, the wind farms are easily maintained and are the cheapest supply of electricity. They are built based on long term wind studies, thus over the long run you know there will be a given amount of wind. You don’t know when it will come but it’s not the only generating souce – the grids are already set up to rely on many generating sources and to automatically switch to the cheapest source available, so you just hook wind up to the grid and it can provide up to 20% of a grid’s baseload capacity.
Note – I am a skeptic of man-made warming (and at this point, of warming as a long-term trend). But wind power conserves coal, natural gas and nuclear, which produce other pollutants and which are in finite, even if substantial, domestic supply. Just because James Hansen and Al Gore are frauds doesn’t mean wind power is a bad idea.
And as for oil companies thinking they’re a bad idea – we in the US do not generate a significant amount of electricity using oil. We generate only about 2% of our electricity using oil. It’s a backup fuel, primarily used when gas prices spike.