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Victorian Transmission Plan and Guidelines: impact on dairy farms
Author: Conheady, Joseph and Anna
Joseph and Anna Conheady’s submission to the Government’s (Stage 1) Renewable Energy public submission process. Some background info: In order to grow their dairy farming enterprise Joseph and Anna need worker accommodation. But the Victorian Labor Government and the Wind Industry have ganged up on all Victorian Farmers to stifle the expansion of farms. In 2021, the Vic Govt introduced a planning provision (Victoria Planning Provisions 35.07-6 Decision guidelines (13/10/2021 VC212)) to prevent farmers from building worker accommodation within 1km . . .
More »Construction photos: the Black Forest
Author: Various
In the Kinzigtal valley, 2021 (from Windradfreies Laufbachtal): On the Schauinsland mountain, 2023-2024 (from Susanne Hänßel at Schwarzwald-Heimat Bühlertal): On the Schauinsland mountain, 2023-2024 (from Unser Schauinsland):
More »Impact of offshore wind farms on a tropical depression through the amplification effect by the downstream mountainous terrain
Author: Deng, Shaokun; et al.
Highlights The evolution of a tropical depression is modified significantly by upstream offshore wind farms. The enhancement of convergence in the western side of the tropical depression is associated with gravity waves. Wind-farm wakes affect the low-level vertical wind shear through the downstream mountainous terrain. Abstract The influence of offshore wind farms in the northern South China Sea on a tropical depression far away (over the Beibu Gulf) is investigated through a fully coupled atmosphere-ocean model. Results show that in . . .
More »8 Steps Used by Windpower Developers to Create Agreements
Author: van Warmerdam, Carl
People who believe that offshore wind turbines can help solve climate change are misinformed. Because the facts are that they will not. Even the companies building them make no such claim. And the truth, based on facts, will always trump belief. I am not a climate denier, but you don’t have to be a climate denier to know that these things are bad and are doomed to failure. And you also don’t have to be linked to the fossil fuel . . .
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