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Documents presented here are not the product of nor are they necessarily endorsed by National Wind Watch. This resource library is provided to assist anyone wishing to research the issue of industrial wind power and the impacts of its development. The information should be evaluated by each reader to come to their own conclusions about the many areas of debate.
When the Wind Stops
Author: Hyde, William; and Webley, John
The other side of the wind turbine argument, from Kentish Weald Action Group (KWAG)
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Claimed and realistic carbon dioxide emissions savings and electricity generation
Author: Jefferson, Michael
Claimed and realistic carbon dioxide emissions savings and electricity generation from a proposed wind energy development at Airfield Farm, Hinwick, North Bedfordshire an independent evaluation prepared at the request of CLOWD (Campaign to Limit Onshore Windfarm Developments)
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Lightning Hazard Reduction at Wind Farms
Author: Kithil, Richard
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Incidents and images of damage to wind energy converters
Author: Alt, Helmut
“According to estimates by the German insurance association, GDV, a total of € 30 million were paid in premiums for insuring the wind machines compared to almost € 45 million paid in damages for plant outages (this corresponds to around 0.3 ct/kWh).”
From “The economics of wind energy within the generation mix” (”Energiewirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Windenergie im Stromerzeugungsmix”) [click to download]
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Why Wind Won't Work
Author: Boone, Jon
Between the: (1) uncertainty about what power sources wind energy would replace or avoid from minute to minute, (2) the operational inefficiencies inherent in switching conventional power sources off and on to accommodate wind’s continuously changing intensity, and (3) the emissions created in the construction and operation of the wind power facilities, actual measurement of emissions offsets due to wind installations is difficult to calculate accurately, and the results would vary from grid to grid. Moreover, consumers of electricity will . . .
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Save Western Ohio Q and A
Author: Stacy, Tom
Even in countries like Germany where wind power is fully deployed across the nation, its contribution to base load power – the part coal serves – is well under 10% of the power that wind supplies, which is about 25% of its rated capacity. That math leads you to wind power’s contribution to base load power at two and a half percent of rated capacity. So it takes forty gigawatts of installed windpower – 17,000 turbines to replace . . .
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Likely cost of electricity from Project Hayes
Author: Leyland, Bryan
3.8 Wind power stations impose additional frequency keeping costs on the power system that are greater than, for instance, from hydropower stations. From the point of view of system operation, the major problems with wind power are that it is unpredictable and that it can fluctuate very rapidly. These rapid fluctuations means that with wind power connected to the system, frequency keeping becomes more difficult and more expensive. At the moment, frequency keeping plant operates to manage fluctuations in the . . .
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Town of Magnolia (Wisc.) Wind Energy Systems Licensing Ordinance
Author: Town of Magnolia, Wisconsin
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Town of Chilton (Wisc.) Wind Energy Systems Licensing Ordinance
Author: Town of Chilton, Wisconsin
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Environmental Noise Guidelines: Wind Farms
Author: Southern Australia Environment Protection Authority
Wind farms need specific guidelines because wind turbines have unique noise generating characteristics and the environments surrounding wind farm sites usually have low ambient noise. …
2 NOISE CRITERIA
The general approach in setting noise criteria for new developments is to require compliance with a base noise level.
This base noise level is typically 5 dB(A) lower than the level considered to reflect the amenity of the receiving environment. Designing new developments at a lower level accounts for the cumulative effect of noise from . . .
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