lol.
Build windmills right on the shoreline. ^^^

It's cheap...^^^
but ineffective.

Or make Happy Hour at the gay bar all afternoon.......

waveslave said...




lol.
Build windmills right on the shoreline. ^^^

What an eyesore..Im all for alternative energy sources but fancy having to look & listen to that all day? Although being on the beach the surf would probably drown the noise.

What an eyesore..Im all for alternative energy sources but fancy having to look & listen to that all day? Although being on the beach the surf would probably drown the noise.

You surprise me! I'd have thought most windsurfers would love the idea of wind power, given that we have first hand experience of the power of the wind.

On topic - don't think this would deter kiters - the power lines at Altona certainly don't...

russh said...

The cost and energy to convert raw materials to harness the wind probably outweigh any generation benefit.

Yes - on the small ones you attach to your house. Definitely not true for the big ones that are correctly located.

My daughters been researching wind farms for a school project and there a few qualitative studies that associated wind farms with negative health affects on those living around them.

There's a lot of health claims being made around wind farms at the moment. To date there has yet to be a single peer-reviewed study that states that wind farms can cause health problems. It's all based on anecdotal evidence at the moment.

FlickySpinny said...

There's a lot of health claims being made around wind farms at the moment. To date there has yet to be a single peer-reviewed study that states that wind farms can cause health problems. It's all based on anecdotal evidence at the moment.

Too right it is anecdotal, a clearly biased anti-windfarm GP has interviewed less than a dozen families who presented with a wide range of symptoms (who are also pre-disposed to those symptoms) and blames wind farms, hardly what i would consider a thorough statistical or technical evaluation. Furthermore, all those interviewed were in North America, where planning laws allow turbines to be placed as close as 300m. The minimum setback in Australia is typically 3 times this distance.

I dont use the thumbs coz i forget they are there but ....
a red thumb does not mean you are sentenced to death!
nor does it mean that a persons comments are worthless or inappropriate,
I think red/green thumbs are a fast and concise way to acknowledge some ones point in a positive or negative light. You've no need to heed another's opinion, written or not.
About here is where an appropriate insult, sledge or personal attack would fit in nicely to round off my post, in reply to flickspinny, but due to the adult manner we are being encouraged to abide in light of current and recent offences, I will refrain.
Thus leaving my post drull, boring and devoid of entertainment for the readers...yes you have just wasted your time reading this, now back to the topic.

The windmills in albany make a hell of a noise- wwwwwwwwwwooosssshh, but they are a fair way from any residents, and you can see them for miles.
Makes you wonder (given their out put) why they chose this form of renewable energy over others in the early days. May have something to do with the aero space industry and its aquired knowledge mayb?

I heard that in Europe now the most efficient turbines were being placed out in the North Sea (out of site of land), that not only meant you didnt get people complaining but more importantly the wind was much better and the power generated more regular/reliable.

I can't remember which country but the person I heard being interviewed said that when they had an excess of power in their grid it was sold to the neighbouring countries (Belgium comes to mind as one that was buying the power). He ran a control centre where he could see the output of each turbine which was how they could see that the "best" ones were off shore.

I suppose here (Perth) it would be like putting them out past Rottnest but of course our weather patterns are quite different.

waveslave said...




lol.
Build windmills right on the shoreline. ^^^

interesting photo. just looking a the quality and state of those orchards, and the size of the blocks, I would be thinking that the poor farmer who previously was stuck with a poor ,marginal, small holding to feed his family with , now has a regular income leasing a tiny piece of dirt to the big power company.
presumably a kite hooked on a blade would get catapulted clear over the lot

russh said...

This makes for some interesting reading - again I read it with an open mind not for or against -

www.windturbinenoisehealthhumanrights.com/wtnhhr_june2007.pdf

That's a brilliantly impartial URL. When the Iraq war was looking to break out in 2003, I consulted the following website.

http://www.georgewbushdrinksthebloodofmuslimchildrenandhaliburtonaresatanists.com

sorry...Couldnt help myself..

Not sure that would deter hard core kiters.
It could offer the ability to do a true kite loop, now that would be extreme sport!!!!

Just have to make sure the hook up didn't damage the kite beyond it's ability to make a softish landing.
And the release was early enough to avoid a power dive into the dirt

Doesn't stop these guys.

russh said...

ginger pom said...


That's a brilliantly impartial URL. When the Iraq war was looking to break out in 2003, I consulted the following website.

http://www.georgewbushdrinksthebloodofmuslimchildrenandhaliburtonaresatanists.com

Well the poms and the yanks sure got it right didn't they!
So what do you belive - the spin put out by George and his english hand puppet or the web site you posted - they're both extremely innaccurate

I disagreed and marched against it in February 2003. Interestingly you didn't look at my link because I made it up, but then again I didn't look at yours either...

The point being that any url containing the words "human rights" and "wind turbine" noise is hardly impartial.

It shows we're spoiled in Australia to think that a bit of windfarm noise is a human rights issues, as opposed to in Africa where human rights issues concern more basic things like being able to vote, not be forced off your land, not having your kids massacred with machetes or your wife kidnapped by mercenaries.