"Fifty-two percent of these people [living close to a wind-farm] also found noise to be a problem. Some of the symptoms they complained about include nausea, headaches and tinnitus."

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090127/OPINION02/301279993

just like east, west, cascades

Marengo II
Goodnoe Hills
White Creek Wind Power Project
Marengo Wind Farm
Big Horn Wind Power Project
Wild Horse Wind Power Project
Hopkins Ridge Wind Farm

Such as solar or wind. Most energy companies provide you with a list of sites of renewable energy providers you can easily switch over to. It's only 7-15 bucks more each month! And you're doing something good for the earth, isn't it worth it?
just so everyone knows. I make minimum wage at a hotel. I can afford 7-15 bucks more a month.
FredHH- So now I'm stupid for wanting to do somthing good for the environment?
(Not to say that I don't do everything else in my power like ride buses or bikes whenever I can, recycle etc. etc.)
And even if thats the case and there's a huge conspiracy going on with my local solar/wind farm (which I doubt, I'm sure it's not as simple as you seem to think it is) What is the harm and how does it make me stupid in trying to do something good? I think you're the ignorant one here.
At least I'm TRYING to be apart of the solution and not the problem. can you say the same for yourself?

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wind-power-equal-job-power/story?id=9759949

Nearly billion in money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been spent on wind power, funding the creation of enough new wind farms to power 2.4 million homes over the past year. But the study found that nearly 80 percent of that money has gone to foreign manufacturers of wind turbines.

So Where Are the Green Jobs Obama promised?
Steel Rat - You didn't read the story and what you are whining about is not addressed in this story.
Steel rat - Last time I was in California I literally saw hundreds, possibly thousands of the windmills generating electric.

What you don't see to understand is that my article states that the money spent in the bailout did not create any jobs here in the USA. While we have manufacturers here in the USA, the money was shipped to an overseas manufacturer.

This was not what Obama promised and I am pointing this out.

If a wind farm works, more power too them. But I should not have to subsidize it with tax money. If it stands on its own and it can make money, then that is great. Otherwise don't force me to send tax money to Washington to subsidize a private company.

My BF wants to go to school to be a wind turbine tech. I want to find out where these farms are located to see where we would have to move to be closer to where he would work. I can't find a map, or list of wind farm locations, not even on wind power company websites like Vesta.

I only know of the Columbia Gorge wind farm in Oregon. (which is where we are now, and would probably like to stay.) When I google I only seem to find articles pertaining to NIMBY protests.
Thanks alot ACADEMY you obviously didn't read that I already googled this many times....

I have been wondering about the wind power, like windmills lately, here's some other things i wondered
Where is one of the largest wind farms in the world? how many wind turbines are on that largest wind farm?
which country generated the mostwind energy? How much did they generate in 2003?
which country generated 686 megawatts of wind enerrgy?
U.S. wind energy can power how many U.S. homes?

I recall the unintended consequences of forced use of ethanol (more toxic than regular gasoline) and the ban on DDT, the latter of which resulted in the loss of millions of lives lost to malaria. Wouldn't it be prudent to avoid such disasters? [below are excerpts. Please see link for entire article]

Can large wind farms tweak weather downwind?

By Peter N. Spotts | 06.24.09

A battle over a wind farm in our backyard – off the island of Martha’s Vineyard – has shown that folks can raise a host of objections over unintended consequences, real or imagined.
They’ve included hazards to boaters, hazards to endangered migratory birds, hazards to aircraft flying between the Vineyard and the mainland, and of course, hazards to the property value of big-buck homes with scenic views of Nantucket Sound. Oh yes, one can’t forget the installation of transmission lines to link the turbines to the utility grid. And that’s just for one relatively small wind farm.
Now researchers are looking at another potential “unintended consequence” – the likelihood that collectively, groups of large wind farms in one region could alter weather patterns downwind of the turbines in another region.
So far, evidence suggests that large collections of wind farms could have small but measurable effects on atmospheric circulation patterns, cloudiness, and temperatures over substantial distances.
……. if the whole Midwest “is somewhat roughened over a large area, then you could imagine having a large-scale impact on the atmosphere.”
…….. he and his colleagues are trying to refine their estimates with an eye toward wind farms of the future – “how to design wind farms in ways that make them innocuous,” he says.
At first blush, the thought of vast collections of wind farms affecting weather patterns seems a bit far-fetched. But scientists have long studied the effects that changes in the roughness of Earth’s surface can have on low-level wind patterns. And large, regional collections of wind turbines would rough up the surface. In effect, it’s like planting very tall trees (roughly 300 feet high).
Last year, Mr. Kirk-Davidoff and a colleague, took a more detailed look to figure out how and why the climate changed. They found that the presence of rougher landscape over large areas introduced “appreciable” changes in wind, temperature, and cloudiness.
At the moment, Kirk-Davidoff acknowledges, the work is “pretty speculative.” Real-world measurements of wind farms’ effect on wind patterns are few and far between. In 2005, scientists in Europe published a study of the effects that large off-shore wind farms had on wind patterns, using satellite-based radar. But no one so far has built collections of wind farms on continental scales.
Yet “the possibility of relying heavily on wind power is not unreasonable,” he says – especially in light of wind-energy’s potential as outlined in the paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
For Kirk-Davidoff, his work involves examining potential unintended consequences – at least the ones people can think up – “as the technology ramps up, so hopefully we don’t get into really surprising consequences before we have a chance to realize what they might be.”

http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2009/06/24/can-large-wind-farms-tweak-weather-downwind/

Paul... you are absolutely wrong!..
"Finkel writes that Robert Gwadz, a malaria specialist at the US National Institutes of Health, says the worldwide ban on DDT that eventually followed the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, which condemned use of the chemical, "may have killed 20 million children." The quote by Gwadz does not include the huge number of adults that have also died since "DDT become nearly impossible to procure" because "the chemical was outlawed by most of the world for agricultural use".

The deaths caused by malaria, however, are only the beginning of the problems caused by the disease. A far greater number of the continent's people are regularly afflicted by malaria, which often causes life-l

The most common pro-wind argument is that we are already losing lots of birds due to collisions with buildings, cars.... etc. Does this mean that Wind Farm supporters feel that they are entitled to kill their share of wildlife? Should the Wind industry be forced to pay the hefty fines that the oil industry pays for similar violations? Should Obama order a moratorium on any further wind farm development until we can be guaranteed that they will be safe to wildlife and the environment (as he has done with offshore oil development? Your thoughts?

"Bird deaths soar at wind farms"

by: Associated Press
Monday, September 21, 2009

"For years, a huge wind farm in California's San Joaquin Valley was slaughtering thousands of birds, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks and burrowing owls.

The raptors would get sliced up by the blades on the roughly 5,400 turbines in Altamont Pass, or electrocuted by the wind farm's power lines. Scientists, wildlife agencies and turbine experts came together in an attempt to solve the problem. The result?

Protective measures put in place in an effort to reduce deaths by 50% failed. Deaths in fact soared for three of four bird species studied, said the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area Bird Fatality Study.

The slaughter at Altamont Pass is being raised by avian scientists who say the drive among environmentalists to rapidly boost U.S. wind farm power 20 times could lead to massive bird losses and even extinctions.

New wind projects "have the potential of killing a lot of migratory birds," said Michael Fry, director of conservation advocacy at the American Bird Conservancy in Washington.

"There's concern because of the scale of what we're talking about," said Shawn Smallwood, a Davis, Calif., ecologist and researcher. "Just the sheer numbers of turbines we're talking about - we're going to be killing so many raptors until there are no more raptors, in my opinion."

Non-wind utilizes fined heavily

Some see a double standard for wind farms.

ExxonMobil pleaded guilty in federal court in August to the deaths of 85 birds at its operations in several states, according to the Department of Justice. The birds were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and Exxon agreed to pay 0,000 in fines and fees. In July, the PacifiCorp utility of Oregon was ordered to pay .5 million in fines, restitution and improvements to their equipment after 232 eagles were killed by running into power lines in Wyoming, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

That is far fewer than the estimated 10,000 birds (nearly all protected by the migratory bird law) that are being killed every year at Altamont, according to Robert Bryce, author of Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of "Energy Independence.""

http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/printerfriendlystory.aspx?articleid=20090921_298_0_Fryasu871005

Trevor..... So what you are saying is that the Wind industry wants its share of the killing!!! Sheesh!!

ok well im in science ok? here is a letter from a farmes: "The building of a wind farm here will unsettle the cows in my fields and that will reduce milk yields. This will seriously damage the income from dairy sales" <- true or false?

I'd like my town to build a wind farm. However, I know how local governments can be when it comes to paying for new projects. Will the federal government help defray some of the costs, if the city decides to build it?

y?
How do you buy into a wind farm directly?

There is a legal battle againt a 124 acre wind farm in the North East of USA.

Why would a wind farm need a warehouse?

Limited Liability Campany (LLC), S. Corporation, partnership, or sole proprietership
The wind farm is in western Texas where middle-aged parents already have extensive holdings in oil and cattle and two grown sons have had five years experience managing corporate wind farms.

1. Study after study shows that wherever wind development was put in place, natural gas demand went up and the environmental benefits were the opposite of what the advocates expected.

“Cycling” coal plants to accommodate wind generation makes the plants operate inefficiently, which drives up emissions. Moreover, when they are not operated consistently at their designed temperatures, the variability causes problems with the way they interact with their associated emission control technologies, frequently causing erratic emission behavior that can last for several hours before control is regained. Ironically, using wind to a degree that forces utilities to temporarily reduce their coal generation results in greater SO2, NOX and CO2 than would have occurred if less wind energy was generated and coal generation was not impacted.”

2. There is a huge disparity between installed capacity and actual output into the system. In many cases the actual output in the system is less than 20% and in some cases even far less.

There are other unsavory facts that are included in these graphics such as the area required by a wind farm compared to, e.g., nuclear power plant. The Roscoe wind farm in Texas occupies 100,000 acres for a bit less than 800 MW of installed capacity; the Palo Verde nuclear power plant in Arizona occupies 4,050 acres (4 percent of the Texas wind farm) but has a 500 percent larger power capacity (almost 4,000 MW.)

Even more obscene are the government subsidies that go into wind power. For an energy source that barely exceeds one percent of energy output, wind subsidies are per megawatt hour, about 60 times of the {content}.44 per megawatt hour that go to the mainstay of US electrical power output, coal and 100 times the {content}.25 per megawatt hour that go to natural gas, the two sources that account for over 70 percent of US power supply. Way to go for social engineering.

http://www.energytribune.com//articles.cfm/5623/Wind-Energy-The-Truth-Blows

http://library.thinkquest.org/20331/types/wind/problems.html

http://www.wind-power-problems.org/

http://www.mensetmanus.net/windpower/cato/probwind.shtml

ok so my project is to design an eco tourist resort. I have to do a map and a written piece explaning my reasoning and watever for why I put things where I did. I need to know where the best place is to put a wind farm in the southern hemisphere. Also is this the most eco friendly way of gaining electricity? any help is appreciated..thanks in advance

I am planning on setting up a wind farm in Africa and planning to export it to Europe in cannisters or cylinders. Will I be able to get a buyer even though I am not connected to any of the national grids?

Can I have a wind farm in my front yard? Solar?
How about coal driven turbines in my back yard?
Can I have a razor wire chain-link fence up against the sidewalk to guard it?
Do I get any money if I put electricity out into the grid?
Oh and it's all in an urban environment.

What type of land or enviornment is needed to have a wind farm?

It's for wind energy btw.here are the questions
i)How much power does each wind turbine produce?
ii)How many wind turbines are located in this wind farm?
iii)What is the total power output of the all wind turbines in this wind farm?
iv)What is the maximum and minimum wind speeds at which the turbines operate

What should be taken into consideration when developing a wind farm in a body of water (versus on land)? Are there any challenges that won't crop up with land-based turbines?

I was curious how profitable a wind farm may actually be in comparison to coal. What is the pay back period, maintenance costs, etc. Assume ideal wind conditions, 30 year life, and industrial size turbines. Also, what is the most efficient spacing? I read somewhere it's 1km.

Thanks

They have their initial cost, then basically after they produce enough energy to break even, all energy produced by a wind farm is essentially "free" So why aren't they more common???

We've had a bunch of wind farms pop up in my area and I was wondering how many homes each turbine could power.
Here's a picture of what I mean:

http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/images/2007/07/27/oregon_wind_farm.jpg

Hahaha where I am, it blows almost constantly.