Thursday 2 June 2011

AFRAID something happening in their backyard


I think every new innovation is subjected to harassment from the commons as folks imagine often pseudo scientific arguments to prevent something happening in their backyard.
There may or may not be merit with the questions raised herein. However at the end of the day she is asking her neighbors to also inconvenience themselves for mostly selfish reasons.
Like her I do not want a garbage dump next door or anything else for that matter. However, I recognize that I am part of a community and that I must share common responsibility for ameliorating inconvenience even at my expense.
The remarkable fact is that our wind turbines now produce power at the same cost point as a coal plant. That is a surprising and pleasant outcome for the past thirty years of effort. I can assure you that few were comfortable with the proposition thirty years ago and I am sure the first customers mostly lost on the deal.
For the folks who are convinced that something must be done, it is no big trick to build a nice cinder block wall between you and the problem to create an infra sound shadow. That should be sufficient to provide a good sleep and general protection.
Maybe we can mount a cow bell on the blades so that folks will know when they are getting too close to the infrasound effect.
In the event, according to the recent article in Scientific American we need to build 3,800,000 wind turbines. Most can be out on the Great Plains to provide extra income to those farmers no longer able to irrigate their farms from the aquifer.

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