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wind turbines haters
« on: February 27, 2017, 01:23:10 PM »
hello everyone .

i was wondering why there is too much negativity when it comes to small to medium scale wind turbines .
I know so many companies are trying to make some money so most small wind turbine are scam and medium scale wind turbine are not very cost effective.
PV are getting cheap as the cell production is subsidized by china 
But  both do require a good location to start with.
Both need some sort of maintenance.
PV are more inefficient than wind turbines, and require more space for the same power production.
But you can't find any bad reviews of PV .but wind turbines kill birds, polar bears, decrease property value of the whole neighbourhood, increase insurance fees ,fire risk ,noise complains …you name it .



« Last Edit: February 27, 2017, 02:46:13 PM by super64 »
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« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2017, 01:54:08 PM »
Please be very very gentle on the politics here.

We don't want to get it on us, of any flavour.

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« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2017, 01:58:15 PM »
DamonHD;
Nicer than me, I'd lock this thread quick.
OP, unless you have verifiable proof of this this.
DO NOT point fingers.


I'm sure you're not trying to incite but ,,,
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« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2017, 02:08:37 PM »
freedom of speech  ;D
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« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2017, 02:13:17 PM »
But really  type wind turbine on youtube .

my fav "Best Wind Turbine CRASH/FAIL Compilation HD 2016 "
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« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2017, 02:41:12 PM »
There is no freedom to speak at FL's expense if it just winds people up.

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Re: wind turbines haters
« Reply #6 on: February 27, 2017, 02:48:24 PM »
There is no freedom to speak at FL's expense if it just winds people up.

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ok edit it to be more about wind but really why alot of people are against wind power.

dont get me wronge iam a hugh wind fan but dont understand why ?
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« Reply #7 on: February 27, 2017, 02:54:36 PM »
freedom of speech  ;D
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« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2017, 04:18:39 PM »
Please be very very gentle on the politics here.

We don't want to get it on us, of any flavour.

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I would have argued for wind power and against the Op's statements but seeing the thread has already had the how you must think, what you must say finger waved before it gets started...... hardly any point is there?   ::)

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« Reply #9 on: February 27, 2017, 04:28:58 PM »
Check your local zoning laws to see why wind is not popular... hopefully this is considered non political lol As neutral as I can be on the subject!

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« Reply #10 on: February 27, 2017, 06:09:42 PM »
   You were fine until you brought up "Polar Bears". Now some are triggered.

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« Reply #11 on: February 28, 2017, 09:12:32 AM »
There is nothing wrong with small/medium sized wind turbines as long as you place theme where you would place a large/imdustrial size wind turbine. The problem is that the small windturbines often are place low in dirty wind, where they wont work. It placed properly they work excellent

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« Reply #12 on: February 28, 2017, 05:38:44 PM »
maybe some people got me the wronge way.

polar bears was just  trying to explain that some people will find anything to pick on wind turbines.

but realy there is a full article  about wind turbine bird/bats kill by the type of birds and numbers .



am just afraid that one day puting a turbine will be a crime .

am not selling fate , am not a man off fate .

i like wind turbines and hope it will not be banned in near future

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« Reply #13 on: February 28, 2017, 11:54:08 PM »
OK, I think I get it.  The OP is just saying "WTF" with all the bad press on wind turbines...  well, we all wonder the same thing, too.
One of the problems is that WT's are big targets sticking up in the middle of nowhere.  Tends to attract attention - everyone's attention for miles around.
Another problem is the WT's have visible moving parts.  In this day and age where every machine has safety covers, this is unusual, and adds to the alarm for some folks. 
Particularly those who are easily alarmed.
Accident rates, bat mortality, tonnes of CO2 not emitted... these are all abstract notions and statistics that get played with until they support any argument.  Yeah this subject can generate lots of cynicism...  better not to go there.

Look, you just have to put it behind you, and get on with enjoying it.  Either it's the intricacy of a working machine, or the creation of energy and putting it to use, or the noble effort to do your part to stop creating greenhouse gases, or a hundred other good reasons that building such machines is fun and satisfying...  Do it!

I just saw your build thread started.  Looks like you didn't need my advice.  Let's go see what you're up to!
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« Reply #14 on: March 01, 2017, 04:16:28 AM »
Thank you sparweb for understanding me .

if you saw my first thread ever in this fourm i was asking about safe ways to build a turbine .

because people scared me away from wind turbines .

just checking youtube was a bad experince for me .

so if i put a  wind turbine and somebody wanted to sue for no reason they will use all these false infomation availble as a proof of their point.

assumption is the mother all failure .

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« Reply #15 on: March 01, 2017, 08:58:54 AM »
Ahh, now I see what you were trying to say.
Sorry about the heavy-handedness , BUT it wasn't the way you came across.

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« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2017, 02:45:40 AM »
No problem man ,

the thing that got me was bat articles they even have numbers to support it

maybe we come up with a device to keep those bats safe from us  ;D

you bat killers all you care about is free electricty  ;D
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« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2017, 09:30:58 AM »
I have a pegasus 1500 (2m diameter) turbine. I have never seen a dead bird in the vicinity of my turbine. On the other hand,  I have removed 3 dead birds that have flown into a large livingroom window.

Bats i dont know. There are some, but I have never seen a dead one.

The turbine has been up for 2 years.

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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2017, 11:01:32 AM »
Super64, As a heavy equipment operator, I did the dirt work on 6 solar farms last year, from 30 to 55 acres. I can tell you that each one had to battle to be built. The not in my back yard attitude affects more than just wind mills ;-( 


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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2017, 12:41:38 AM »
Re: public opinion haters of windmills:  Part of a posting I recently made in the "Active Pitch Control" thread seems apropos here:

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Any windmills at all are "controversial".  "Oh NO!  They KILL THE POOR BIRDIES!"  Note that this meme started showing up right after a plan was announced to build offshore windmills that would have been visible from the Kennedy compound on Martha's Vinyard.  All of a sudden windmills went from earth-saving carbon-replacing green tech to sky-mowers cutting down migrating flocks and hunting raptors.

In fact windmills don't have any substantial impact on animal populations - especially as compared to a lot of other human activity that's not about to stop.  And small mills have the blades come by often enough that the animals generally notice them and stay away when they're moving fast enough to be a hazard.

Windmills have several ways to annoy people that leads to some not-in-my-back-yard effects, leading to attempts to zone them away.  They are sky-graffiti to people who liked the view without them.  Their moving shadows in sunlight can cause flicker that is a problem for people with vertigo or epilepsy, or just be annoying.  The vortices shed by a slowly turning mill can cause infrasound, which at some frequencies acts directly on the body's physiology to produce anxiety.  A poorly constructed or installed mill can tip over or throw pieces at dangerous speeds.  Most of these things can be mitigated or eliminated by good design, some don't apply to small mills or sufficiently rural sites.

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Regarding current recommendations for installing windmills vs. other forms of renewable energy:

Ten or so years ago, especially just after the introduction of rare-earth magnets, homemade windmills were comparable in price to solar panels, and both were practical power supplies, even competitive with grid power in some remote locations on good sites.  Practical wind generators could be constructed, erected, and maintained by a reasonably healthy and handy person.  Wind and solar were comparable in price performance (perhaps wind somwhat ahead) and the two complemented each other nicely - with solar providing good output in clear weather and daytime, windmills in stormy weather and around the clock - but with many sites having especially good wind in the midafternoon to early evening.

Now we've had another decade of progress.  Solar photovoltaic is semiconductor based, and has been benefitting from both its own form of Moore's Law and economies of scale.  This has improved the price-performance ratio drastically - to the point that it is becoming competitive with grid power even in urban settings and without government subsidies.  (Ten years of Moore's Law is a LOT of improvement.)  Battery storage has also had substantial breakthroughs which are just being deployed, and is achieving economy of scale also, driven by the electric vehicle developments.  Improved batteries help both photovoltaic and wind, but photovoltaic benefits more.  Windmills, on the other hand, are electromechanical machines of forms that were well developed a century ago.  Since the introduction of neo magnets they have had only modest improvements - and most of those have been concentrated in the large, commercial windfarm, mills, where large engineering and construction costs can achieve payback.  Small, homebrew, windmills have improved little since the introduction of neos.

So these days photovoltaic tends to be the best place to put your initial effort at renewable energy generation - at least if you have a good site for solar.  Wind still complements solar, especially in bad weather, so you may find it practical to add it later.  Or if your site is sun-poor, wind-rich, and rural enough that NIMBY isn't a significant issue, perhaps wind still will make sense as your first step.  (And if you have running water you can tap it might beat the pants off either of them.)

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« Reply #20 on: March 13, 2017, 08:48:27 AM »
it's the shear size of commercial windmills  that have made the public leery of them . they dwarf any landscape. who would want to live next to one?

 

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« Reply #21 on: March 13, 2017, 08:53:28 AM »
I wouldn't want to live within ice-throw distance, nor within shadow/flicker range, but beyond that I'm pretty used to all sorts of industrial structures around me in town and country, from pylons to cow-sheds to silage mounds to TV transmission towers with flashing lights on.

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« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2017, 06:49:22 PM »
it's the shear size of commercial windmills  that have made the public leery of them . they dwarf any landscape. who would want to live next to one?

Hear hear!

And the bigger the mill, the more power it produces per dollar of investment.  So they get bigger about as fast as engineering improvements allow.

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« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2017, 12:43:57 PM »
The really cool part , is watching a train load of the blades roll by heading out west.
Those blade cars dwarf even the coal carrying cars.

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« Reply #24 on: March 15, 2017, 11:38:13 PM »
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...Those blade cars dwarf even the coal carrying cars....

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« Reply #25 on: March 16, 2017, 10:08:17 AM »
Max. blade  88,4 meters .Siemens

Diy . blade  !.35 meters.


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« Reply #26 on: March 16, 2017, 01:54:57 PM »
That 2nd picture is what they look like rolling through our town too.
Others are being moved the last mile via Semi . I'll see if I can garner a pic for here.
These dwarf the little 1.5Mw unit just out side of town here.

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« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2017, 07:57:50 PM »
Suzlon used to have a blade plant 75 miles SW of me in Pipestone, MN.  The closed down when Suzlon went through some rough times in MN getting permits to put up turbines on Buffalo Ridge.


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« Reply #28 on: March 17, 2017, 02:29:18 PM »
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I find it amusing people will drive for miles to look at windmills and wax lyrical about the romantic gentle swish as they grind flour, or pump water. The dutch sell thousands of pictures of them.

Then stick a generator on them and make the blades out of GRP and stop calling them sails and it flicks a switch in some peoples head and they scream doom and gloom and wax on this time about the unconfirmed number of winged creatures that meet their demise entangled in the thrashing blades of these machines from hell.

I don't think people in rural areas and countries where a wind turbine is their only source of power will be jumping on the turbine bashing band wagon.

As  post script how many birds are killed in oil spills, or is that acceptable collateral damage.

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« Reply #29 on: March 22, 2017, 01:26:20 AM »
I find it amusing people will drive for miles to look at windmills and wax lyrical about the romantic gentle swish as they grind flour, or pump water. The dutch sell thousands of pictures of them.

Then stick a generator on them and make the blades out of GRP and stop calling them sails and it flicks a switch in some peoples head and they scream doom and gloom ...

Comparing an efficient "lift" type HAWT to a Dutch-style mill IS getting into the apples-to-pears territory.

An efficient turbine runs at a tip speed ratio of 6 or more (regardless of scale and the higher the more efficient, though you're getting into diminishing-returns territory above about 8 ).  If the furling fails during a wind storm with 100 MPH sustained gusts, the tips of those blades are approaching (or exceeding) the speed of sound - until the vibrations and/or centripetal forces cause an "unscheduled disably".  Then you have some very heavy chunks flying or spinning at about mach one...

A Dutch-type windmill coming apart in a severe storm can be expected to throw smaller and lighter chunks at speeds that are not in the same ballpark.
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« Reply #30 on: March 27, 2017, 07:29:48 AM »
just love watching them while smoking they have a relaixing effect
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