Author Topic: Fans (Read 1124 times)

Peter Drouin · « **on:** February 26, 2015, 12:28:44 PM »

Do you guys have fans?

I see them going up all over, Not sure if I like them yet.

goose63 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 26, 2015, 12:42:27 PM »

Got them all over the place trying to get that warm air up here from Arizona

Bruno of NH · « **Reply #2 on:** February 26, 2015, 12:48:59 PM »

Peter is that in Rumney/North Grotten ?
If that's where it is my BIL logs in the winter at the wind mill site .
Jim/Bruno

Dave Shepard · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2015, 03:25:16 PM »

It's windy enough here, we don't need no stinkin' fans.

I really don't care to see them on the ridgelines, but I do like the idea of home grown renewable energy. There are a bunch of people claiming that they are being adversely affected by strange sound waves from them or something, but I think they just need thicker tinfoil for their hats and that would go away.

jmouton · « **Reply #4 on:** February 26, 2015, 04:09:12 PM »

there are tons of them here in michigan, especially in the middle of the state around mt pleasant, and in the thumb area , there is a hugh dock down in monroe ,mi, they put the parts on trucks and ship them down i-94 all the time , hugh loads and lots of them , they cost more than they produce , i heard it would take a really long time like 50 or so years to pay for one windmill, i know a person at detroit edison and he says they are just doing it to appease the people that want them ,,,maybe i didnt say it the right way but you get it ,,,

jim

Bruno of NH · « **Reply #5 on:** February 26, 2015, 04:42:24 PM »

The money in wind power is made by the company that puts them up.
They sell clean energy credits to the power company's that need it to off set the use of dirty power like coal .
The money's not in the power the wind mill produce.
Jim/Bruno

Peter Drouin · « **Reply #6 on:** February 26, 2015, 05:44:07 PM »

Quote from: Bruno of NH on February 26, 2015, 12:48:59 PM

Peter is that in Rumney/North Grotten ?
If that's where it is my BIL logs in the winter at the wind mill site .
Jim/Bruno

Yes, I saw them going to look at the 990 JD

47sawdust · « **Reply #7 on:** February 26, 2015, 05:58:42 PM »

With all due respect to Forum member BradS who makes a living installing them,I don't care for them.There is something kinda creepy about them.I also don't like the new love affair with massive solar farms.Small scale wind and solar I like.I think learning to conserve and live with less will serve us and future generations much better.

21incher · « **Reply #8 on:** February 26, 2015, 06:07:43 PM »

I would rather see them then a nuclear dome. The trouble is it takes so many.

Den Socling · « **Reply #9 on:** February 26, 2015, 06:18:05 PM »

I think they have a futuristic look up there creating clean energy. I like to see them.

loggah · « **Reply #10 on:** February 26, 2015, 06:26:01 PM »

Our tax money to the federal government subsidizes them , They are in no way practical,and will never pay for themselves!!!

I know this as fact,my nephew in an Engineer for GE windpower, installs and troubleshoots them and even he admits it!! but its a great job for a young guy !!!

Den Socling · « **Reply #11 on:** February 26, 2015, 06:38:29 PM »

Your tax dollars also goes to the oil industry.

loggah · « **Reply #12 on:** February 26, 2015, 07:01:18 PM »

I don't much care for that either!!

snowstorm · « **Reply #13 on:** February 26, 2015, 07:18:12 PM »

the only place around here that really wanted them was vinalhaven. an island 20 miles offshore. there power gets there by an under water cable. they have 3 windmills. before if the power went out they started a big cat genset. a really big one

Don_Papenburg · « **Reply #14 on:** February 26, 2015, 08:58:28 PM »

And them dad blame things are very noisy . MORE SO AS IT GETS WINDIER. Then there is the low sun strobe/flash effect. and my tax dollars wasted on ineficancy .

r.man · « **Reply #15 on:** February 26, 2015, 09:14:51 PM »

I heard some interesting numbers a few years ago. The article stated how much a windmill cost to construct and how many households of electricity it would produce. I took my hydro costs for the year, multiplied it by the number of households and came up with a yearly amount. Using these numbers I calculated that the windmill could be paid for in 10 years. This would only be the original cost and would not cover mortgage or maintenance costs but it seemed promising. We are also seeing lots of these popping up in Ontario and have also heard stories of people being bothered by infrasonic sound, very low frequency sometimes miles away.

JohnM · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2015, 09:58:50 PM »

To say I dislike them would be an understatement, to say the least. These 'fans' have quite literally split our town in half and after years of back and forth in the courts it appears we'll end up with five of them this summer. The former administration really hung the people of this state (Maine) out to dry on this issue (many of whom have nice lucrative jobs in the wind industry...shocking, I know $:-\$ ).

Maybe I just need to buy more tinfoil

just like those people who's lives have effectively been destroyed, whether from sound, 'flicker', loss of property value or a combo of all three. Shooting the messenger is such a cop-out.

redprospector · « **Reply #17 on:** February 27, 2015, 11:39:14 PM »

I haven't seen any around here close by. But I did see a few going by my desert property a while back.

These things are huge! Moving them by rail.

hacknchop · « **Reply #18 on:** February 28, 2015, 12:40:11 AM »

We have quite a few and more going in,trouble is we dont need them,apparently we are paying some of our neighbors to the south to take our excess power.In Sault Ste Marie there was a beatifull little farm all black dirt now its a solar farm what waste of good farm land.

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