Dear Ms. Bacon:
I'm writing in response to your email to WindWatch: a grass roots organization trying to protect YOUR interests, even if you don't recognize it. I hope you'll take a moment and read the following brief, partial explanation why it it really in your interest to oppose the proposed massive deployment of and expensive, ineffective technology. And why it's really not progress to do so.
The Edsel was also called ‘progress.’ So was using x-rays to see if new shoes fit our feet. Just because something is new doesn’t mean it’s better. Determining the truth in such matters takes time and hard work. As your parents probably told you, “The devil is in the detail.”
Well, I earnestly hope you will look at the details and not just rely on the over-blown and patently false claims of industrial wind developers. And don’t rely on the high hopes of environmental groups advocating the massive industrialization of rural landscapes. Read the fine print in the position statements of the more thoughtful organizations. You’ll find that they each support the concept of wind energy, but have concerns about how it should be developed. These concerns are routinely swept under the rug by the developers in their rush to make profits based on taxpayer funded incentives, rather than from the production of usable electricity.
As for what I want to have as my neighbor, my first answer is another neighbor who, like me, will do everything possible to conserve energy and reduce our carbon footprint. Many rural folks are in the lead on this. And we resent the profligate ways of urban folks who see the answer as once again raping the landscape. Strip mines, nuke plants, sanitary landfills, clear-cut forests: seems like the solution to every urban problem is to put it on the backs of rural America. We don’t have the votes or the money, so we don’t seem to have the clout. All we have is the truth, if we can get the urban-controlled media to tell it.
Before you continue advocating for the developers in the mistaken impression that you are doing something to reduce global warming, look at the growing evidence that wind ‘farms’ have little positive effect on this rising crisis. In fact, the data is more and more suggesting that the net effect of the current technology is to INCREASE, not lessen, greenhouse gas production.
The core of the problem is that we can’t rely on the meager amounts of electricity being produced by current designs. The wide, unpredictable swings in when and how much is produced mean that places that rely heavily on current wind technology are finding it unreliable. Check out the problems they have in Spain. Intermittent electric service is acceptable in third world societies as an alternative to NO electricity, and rural folks have never forgotten how to get along when the power goes off, but urban areas quickly descend into chaos. Is that what you are advocating?
If you were living on that one acre in Hardscrabble and a wind turbine next door was causing you health problems and you couldn’t afford to move because no one else wanted to live there either, what would YOU do? You could keep a stiff upper lip and think, “I’m taking one for the team,” and you’d be wrong. You’d only be taking the fall not for the environment, but so investment bankers could reap windfall profits.
As J.P. Morgan (whose company is now one of the biggest wind developers – Noble Environmental) once said, “There are two reasons why a man does anything: a good one, and the real one.” He also said, “I owe the public nothing.” And his company and the rest of the wind development industry continue to operate under the same cynical and corrupt immorality.
Best wishes in your search for truth and justice,
Wayne M.
wlmmail-wind@yahoo.com
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