[ RadSafe ] I love wind farms

[Jerry Cohen]

YES! but wind power (and solar) is being touted as a replacement for the deadly 
nuclear and fossil fuel power generation that supplies electric power to the 
national grid. This is classic "Tinkerbell" reasoning which holds that if you 
want and believe in anything very strongly, it becomes the "truth". This 
approach to "solving" our energy problems is apparently held by our president 
and administration.--- so, maybe we shouldn't waste our efforts doing science.
Jerry Cohen



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From: "Brennan, Mike  (DOH)" <Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV>
To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) MailingList 
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Sent: Thu, March 8, 2012 8:59:07 AM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] I love wind farms

I think wind has a place, or perhaps a niche, in the energy scheme,
similar to that of photovoltaic solar.  It is good for as an off-grid
source to supply a non-continuous load.  The problems mostly come from
trying to scale it up and centralize generation for use on the grid.

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
[mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Steven Dapra
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 5:53 PM
To: radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
Subject: [ RadSafe ] I love wind farms

March 7, 2012


"To the nearest whole number, the percentage of 
the world's energy that comes from wind turbines 
today is: zero. Despite the regressive subsidy 
(pushing pensioners into fuel poverty while 
improving the wine cellars of grand estates), 
despite tearing rural communities apart, killing 
jobs, despoiling views, erecting pylons, felling 
forests, killing bats and eagles, causing 
industrial accidents, clogging motorways, 
polluting lakes in Inner Mongolia with the toxic 
and radioactive tailings from refining neodymium, 
a ton of which is in the average turbine - 
despite all this, the total energy generated each 
day by wind has yet to reach half a per cent worldwide."

    At:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/essays/all/7684233/the-winds-of-change.thtml

Steven Dapra

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