Welcome to National Wind Watch
[ at www.wind-watch.org ]
Since 2005, your source for research material and news about industrial wind power
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.
For people concerned with the environment, the negative impacts of the giant machines and their supporting infrastructure on birds, bats, beneficial insects, and other wildlife -- both directly and by degrading, fragmenting, and destroying habitat -- are a growing concern.
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.
Furthermore, the claims of their benefit of reducing pollution or greenhouse gases appear to be greatly exaggerated. Despite decades of experience and substantial installations in Denmark, Germany, and Spain, the giant turbines have not been shown to reduce the use of other fuels on the electric grid -- such as 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 size and extent.
This web site provides the resources that promoters of industrial wind don't. Armed with information 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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