[All] FW: Fw: Fire in the Sky!

[Andrea Chappell]

Hi Ginny,
Big red text headlines make me shudder since it is usually indicative of 
a story of National Enquirer quality to follow. Indeed, those photos 
make sensational images, but there's very little meat being cooked on 
their bones as a story! There are environmental impacts from turbines 
just as there is from everything we people do on this poor planet. I 
doubt the impact of these fires is significant compared to, say, a 
coal-burning plant during the run of a day. I did a very quick search 
and found that the newest turbines apparently have fire detection and 
suppression built in. Here is a company that offers the technology, 
including for retrofitting.
http://www.minimax.de/en/branchen/windanlagen/

I hope there will be better sources of energy in future. As much as 
turbines can make a pleasant appearance on a landscape when seen in 
small numbers, I've seen the mess it makes of a natural hillside, such 
as in places in California where there are 1000s of them in a small 
area. As much as I read that a nuclear facility is clean energy, I can't 
help but be troubled by the none too trifling detail of how we deal in 
the long term with its toxic and persistent wastes. If I had the choice 
of the two sources of power in my backyard, I'd still gladly stick to 
chasing windmills :-)
Cheers,
Andrea

On 3/6/2012 3:35 PM, Ginny Quinn wrote:
>
> This is something I have seen for the first time....and  it certainly 
> gives one pause for thought    about them being  environmentally 
> friendly.     You might remember that Judy Greenwood Spears  moved to 
> Wolfe Island and she agreed to many wind mills on her farm  a few 
> years ago.   Guess it seemed like a good idea then    ...but there are 
> more than the health complaints.  There was another group fighting 
> against letting the govt. give permission to the erectors of these 
> things  IN the water just off shore because  of the probable 
> contamination of the water with washing them down and oiling them 
> ....the old 'stuff' would drip down into  the lakes  contaminating the 
> water and endangering (more) the fish.  Ginny
>
> *Subject:* Fwd: Fw: Fire in the Sky!
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