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"I listen to the wind ~ To the wind of my soul"
"And upon the wind it's carried ~ Over the cities and the plains
You got time, you're on the mend, babe
And everybody wants the same
Everybody wants the same thing"
"Way our west in Texas ~ Where the cactus blooms are pure delight
Where the Milky Way smiles so big and bright
Where the wind goes across the rugged land all night ~ Going Ooo Ooouoo Ooouoo
Blow blow you West Texas Wind ~ Turn those turbines they panned an old friend
Power the future for the next generation - Crying Ooouoo Ooo Ooouoo Ooouoo ....
Renewable energy can swing!"
The Wind
Wind Power can be harnessed day or night, in the heat and in cold - but only if there is - wind. There is a race to produce
more efficient, and smaller wind turbines. Wind farms do harness much energy, but at same time lose a lot of potential energy
capture, and at best, must be replaced every 30 years.
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"How Do We Install a Wind Turbine? Find Out in 2 Minutes - ACCIONA (2018) [Land]
"How to Install a Home Wind Turbine" - "Ask This Old House" (2015)
Wind Wise Massachusetts [Grass roots]
"Wind Turbines Don't Make You Feel Sick but Spin Can" - Independent Australia (2013)
"Wind Turbine Sound" - U.S. Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office [Needs Updating]
"Wind Energy Noise Wind Farm Noise 2012 Science and Policy Overview" - Acoustic Ecology Institute (2012)
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| WHY DOES WIND BLOW? - National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration |
| OIL & GAS SEISMIC AIRGUN OPPOSITION |
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| GAS & OIL OFFSHORE DRILLING - Oceana |
"Grassroots Opposition to Offshore Drilling and Exploration in the Atlantic Ocean and off Florida's Gulf Coast" - OCEANA
| OIL & GAS EXPLORATION |
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| GAS & OIL OFFSHORE DRILLING SEISMIC SURVEY - NOIA |
"While geophysical surveys are widely used for oil and natural gas exploration, they are also used for a variety of other
purposes including siting for offshore wind farms and locating sand and gravel for coastal restoration."
"Comparing offshore wind turbine foundations" - Windpower Engineering Development (2021)
this idea be economically adapted into shallower 1-2-km (0.6-1.2-mile) holes simply to provide warm water for hydronic heating
and other purposes?
Certainly, we intend to do that too. This is not just about 20 km; there is plenty of value to unlock starting at 100-meter
deep holes.
"EPA Proposes Air Permit for Construction Activity at Revolution Wind Offshore Wind Project" - Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA)
FACT SHEET For: Outer Continental Shelf Preconstruction Air Permit 130 MW Offshore Windfarm South Fork Wind, LLC & Offshore
Renewable Wind Energy Development Renewable Energy Lease Area OCS-A 0517 EPA Draft Permit Number
"Orsted canceled two wind farms off the New Jersey coast and is reconsidering two others. Probably in some ways we were too
optimistic on some things," Hardy said. 'We got caught on the wrong end of some of these macro trends.' ....
The projects were key to President Biden's goal of 30 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2030, enough to power more than
10 million homes. Analysts now predict the industry will build less than half that, according to Bloomberg.
Theoretical and Technical Basis for the Optimization of Wind Energy Plants - by Vladimir Rotkin [Download entire Book] (2017)
"Why You Haven't Seen These Wind Turbines Around (Yet)" - DW Planet A (July 28, 2023)
PLACEMENT "This is What's REALLY Holding Back Wind and Solar" - DW Planet A (June 2, 2023)
"Wind Wars": "Inside the Communities Fighting Against Renewable Energy" - "Four Corners" (June 10, 2024)
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[Weather never leaves you alone]
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| SOME CURRENT & WIND INNOVATIONS |
| PHOTOVOLTAIC WIND TURBINES SYSTEMS UNDER BRIDGES |
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| CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN |
| DUTCH RECYCLING TURBINE BLADES PROJECT |
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| THEY ARE QUITE - TOO LARGE - EXPENSIVE TO RECYCLE |
| WIND TURBINE FARM DOWNED AFTER ONLY 14 YEARS |
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"Energy 101: Wind Turbines" - U.S. Department of Energy
"Wind Turbine Tour" - Dundalk Institute of Technology, Louth, Ireland (DkIT) (2012)
"Inside the Biggest Wind Turbine in the World" (2022)
Tour A Wind Turbine - U.S. Department of Energy (2016)
Portugal "Risky Business: How Wind Turbine Technicians Risk Their Lives to Keep Blades Spinning" - Insider News (2022)
"Strong Winds Damage Wind Turbines at the Lucelo Wind Farm in Spain" - National Wind Watch (2022)
Dangerous "10 Wind Turbine Fails" (2019)
Statistics.
"DOE Outlines Challenges for Wind. Will the IRA Help?" - Energy Wire (2022)
"WIND" ARTICLES - Energy News Network
"The Bugaloos" - "The Bugaloos" - Sid & Marty Krofft
BATS
"Dead bats are found beneath wind turbines all over the world. It's estimated that tens to hundreds of thousands die at
wind turbines each year in North America alone."
Conservation Status and Threats to North American Bats (APRIL 17TH, 2023) - The North American Bat Conservation Alliance (NABCA)
"Wind Turbines Burst Bat Lungs" - National Geographic (2008)
BATS COMPETELY AVOID SMALL WIND TURBINES
Observations using infra-red imagery7 and satellite tagging have both determined that bats appear to interact with turbines,
which may heighten collision risk. Roeleke et al. found that female Nyctalus noctula repeatedly came into close contact with
wind turbines during foraging flights and flew at heights that suggested a high risk of colliding with turbine blades. Bats
interact with turbines and changing their orientation when approaching them depending on wind speed. For tree-roosting bats,
this may be a consequence of individuals mistaking turbines for potential roosting sites or bats attempting to establish mating
sites at turbines9. However, this is unlikely to be the primary explanation in Europe, where most casualties are not tree-roosting
species. Increased prey availability around turbines is also a hypothesis for increased bat presence around turbines. Although
evidence suggests bats are attracted to large turbines, experimental assessment at small wind turbines found that bats
actively avoided them.
"Collision mortality is greatest for migratory tree-roosting species (Hoary Bat [Lasiurus cinereus], Eastern Red
Bat [Lasiurus borealis], Silver-haired Bat [Lasionycteris noctivagans]) and from July to October. Based on 40 studies
meeting inclusion criteria and analyzed under a common statistical framework to account for methodological variation, we found
support for an inverse relationship between bat mortality and percent grassland cover surrounding wind energy facilities."
"Bender details the 'fairly grim' long-term prospects facing Australian bats. 'More and more of our species can legitimately
be classified as in trouble, for all sorts of reasons. Habitat loss is the big one, global warming … towards little microbats … filament netting of fruit trees … and of course the wind farm
issue is potentially another bit of trouble on top of all the others."
BIRDS
"The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that between 140,000 and 500,000 bird deaths occur at wind farms each year.
The most significant threat is posed to species of large, threatened and high-conservation-value birds such as Golden
and Bald Eagles, Burrowing Owls, Red-tailed and Swainson’s Hawks, Peregrine and Prairie Falcons,
American Kestrels and White-Tailed Kites. Since large birds have much lower reproductive rates than small
birds (Golden Eagles, for example, have just one or two chicks in a brood less than once a year), their
deaths have a far greater impact on the overall population of the species."
MARINE ANIMALS
Construction of placing wind turbines in the sea is certainly disruptive to marine animals. Ongoing construction over years
and years - whether new or replacement disrupt marine animal life. There is ongoing "low noise" that the authors conclude
that is unknown of its affect, but are certain that there is disturbance beyond quality of life.
"Marine mammals use sound for foraging, orientation and communication and are therefore possibly susceptible to negative effects
of man-made noise generated from constructing and operating large offshore wind turbines. This paper reviews the existing
literature and assesses zones of impact from different noise-generating activities in conjunction with wind farms on 4 representative
shallow-water species of marine mammals. Construction involves many types of activities that can generate high sound pressure
levels, and pile-driving seems to be the noisiest of all. Both the literature and modeling show that pile-driving and other
activities that generate intense impulses during construction are likely to disrupt the behavior of marine mammals at ranges
of many kilometers, and that these activities have the potential to induce hearing impairment at close range."
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