National Wind Watch
Since 2005, your source for research material and news about industrial wind energy
This web site provides the information that promoters of industrial wind do not. Armed with knowledge beyond their sales pitches, you can decide for yourself whether the elusive benefits of large-scale wind energy development are enough to justify the further destruction of communities, the environment, and individual lives.
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Two important books published in 2009:
• Wind Turbine Syndrome, by Nina Pierpont, MD, PhD • • The Wind Farm Scam, by John Etherington, Ph.D. • |
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High Impact
Industrial-scale wind energy is widely promoted as a clean and sustainable source of energy. It brings, however, many adverse impacts of its own which are often ignored or even denied. Of most immediate concern for communities targeted for wind power facilities are their huge size, unavoidable noise, and strobe lights day and night, with the consequent loss of amenity and, in many cases, health.
People concerned with the environment are increasingly concerned about the negative impacts of the giant machines and their additional supporting infrastructure on birds, bats, beneficial insects, and other wildlife — both directly and by degrading, fragmenting, and destroying habitat.
Considering these and other impacts, the construction of industrial wind energy facilities cannot be justified in most of the places they are proposed. They do more harm than good.
Low Benefit
And how much good do they actually do? The claims of reducing pollution or greenhouse gases appear to be greatly exaggerated. Wind is a diffuse and fickle resource. Despite decades of experience and substantial installations in Denmark, Germany, and Spain, the giant turbines have not been shown to reduce the use of fossil fuels on the electric grid — such as natural gas, coal, and nuclear — let alone gasoline for transport and oil for heating. For this reason, their ability to reduce carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming or pollutants that cause acid rain and health problems such as asthma is doubtful, despite their tremendous size and sprawl.
