Why is there no support for wind farms?

4 Comments

1. Matthew says:

   May 15, 2010 at 4:34 am

   I think most people think wind farms are pretty cool, but the reality is they are not as reliable and profitable as most people think. You need very large pieces of land (expensive), you need constant or near constant wind, and you need investors who believe thay will make money. And you need no one to sue you. It’s suprising the amount of opposition you can get from this seemingly benign energy source even offshore wind farms have been sued. (look up the opposition that’s happening on the east coast.) ( ruining the view of sail boaters ).
2. Soilguy says:

   May 15, 2010 at 4:34 am

   So far the opposition is NIMBY related (not in my back yard), from what I see. There may be legitimate concern about killing birds, but I think they’re really concerned about spoiling the view from the waterfront.

   I even heard that a local Indian tribe is suing to stop it, because there may be ancestral burial grounds somewhere under the Nantucket Sound.
3. Scrawny says:

   May 15, 2010 at 4:34 am

   Wind mills are huge, ugly and noisy. In addition, they are unreliable because they rely on the wind. Even the Netherlands with all of their wind mills don’t rely on them as a primary source of power.

   No one talks about the life-span of these monstrosities but I suspect that it is rather short in comparison to more conventional sources of power.
4. Jason says:

   May 15, 2010 at 4:34 am

   People just don’t like change.Especially when there is not a lot of money to be made form that change.