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Susan and RADSAFErs,
I can confirm the Guardian article. The euphoria has has been changed to
deep scepticism. One must be a really stubborn "environmentalist" to regard
the so-called "windfarms" as beautiful, nice and fitting into the landscape.
I have seen several of them both in Scandinavia, in Hawaii (Big Island) and
on the Spanish South Coast - and they look terrible, not to talk about their
noise. Some clever business men wanted to place a lot of them in an area of
Austria, which is a conservation area, where not even a motorway was allowed
to be built - their attempts have denied.
Wind power is a very modern way of fraud: Those financing wind energy and
invest into it, want to have their guaranteed financial return and of course
the government "has" to guarantee it. The federal electricity board has to
buy the electricity from those wind facilities at a price manyfold compared
to electricity from conventional generation - coal, water, nuclear. No
wind - no electricity - what a fine situation when an important sports event
is on TV! Finally of course the consumers have to pay, who could otherwise
be supplied with cheaper electricity. Investors make the big money, but the
consumers are usually not aware of this fact, because "green" electricity
fascinates the average consumer and those who realize the fraud still are
not pro-nuclear, simply because nuclear is regarded as being "the devil".
I wonder, when people will find out that they are cheated? Those complaining
about noise and the ugly view are of course not against wind electricity -
it should only be in others backyard.
Regards,
Franz
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Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Susan Gawarecki
Gesendet: Freitag, 07. Mai 2004 23:47
An: RadSafe
Betreff: A FLIGHTY WIND
The Guardian article (link below) goes into more detail on the wind vs.
nuclear debate in England.
--Susan Gawarecki
A FLIGHTY WIND
Wind Power Sparks Controversy Across Western Europe
In Western European countries, where thousands of wind farms are
sprouting up across the landscape, fierce bickering has broken out over
the benefits and drawbacks of wind energy. In the U.K. and Germany,
activists and rural residents are waging a ferocious battle against what
the Germans call "Verspargelung der Landschaft" -- the transformation of
the landscape into an asparagus field. While renewable energy in
general enjoys wide public support -- and heavy government subsidies --
in these countries, wind farms have drawn the ire of groups that claim
they foul the landscape, create noise pollution, kill birds, and cost
vastly more than most other sources of energy. U.K. conservationist
David Bellamy calls wind power "sheer lunacy" and says "it beggars
belief that some environmental groups say [wind turbines] are 'green.'"
In turn, Tony Juniper of Friends of the Earth U.K. calls anti-wind
forces "parochial, shortsighted, selfish, peddling falsehoods and
misconceptions." Wind-power advocates say that, in order to stave off
climate change and a resurgence of nuclear power, society needs to use
what clean-energy sources are available, and for now, that's wind.
straight to the source: The Guardian, John Vidal, 07 May 2004
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2426>
straight to the source: The Christian Science Monitor, Charles Hawley,
05 May 2004
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/cgi-bin/forward.pl?forward_id=2428>
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