{"id":10381,"date":"2010-10-11T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T18:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2012-02-03T09:13:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T14:13:31","slug":"editorial-wind-parks-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2010\/editorial-wind-parks-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorial: “Wind Parks? Really?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2014Eric Bibler, WTS.com guest editor<\/p>\n

I just discovered that Cape Wind’s<\/a> 25-square mile industrial plant in Nantucket Sound is in fact not a \u201cwind factory,\u201d a \u201csprawling open air industrial wind plant\u201d or even a \u201cwind farm,\u201d as I had supposed.<\/p>\n

According to Cape Wind, it is officially a \u201cWind Park<\/span>.”<\/p>\n

This is an inspired choice of words!<\/p>\n

I am already drafting letters to my local town selectmen asking if we can change a few names around here, such as: \u201cTrash Park<\/span>,\u201d \u201cSewage Treatment Park<\/span>,\u201d \u201cCoal Fired Electric Park<\/span>\u201d and \u201cMaximum Security Correctional Park<\/span>.\u201d (Well, we don\u2019t actually have one of those, but perhaps we can call the local jail a \u201cLiberty Deprivation Park<\/span>\u201d \u2013- or something like that.)<\/p>\n

I\u2019d also like to see if we can\u2019t change the name of I-95, to call it an \u201cInterstate Highway Park<\/span>,\u201d and I think we should have a few \u201cCell Tower Parks<\/span>\u201d and \u201cWater Tower Parks<\/span>,\u201d don’t you? \u00a0Perhaps that strip of the highway that runs past downtown Bridgeport, CT, can be rechristened a \u201cBillboard Park<\/span>\u201d — to avoid any confusion about its true purpose.<\/p>\n

Perhaps wind turbine noise should be renamed \u201cWind Turbine Mood Music<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

We could refer to the individual wind turbines as \u201cGleaming Energy Independence Mobiles<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

We could refer to the flicker effect as the \u201cWind Turbine Prankster Effect<\/span>,\u201d to recall the antics of an out-of-control eight-year-old who won\u2019t lay off the light switch.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the bird and bat kill aspects could be accepted as a \u201cNew Age Darwinian Wind Turbine Effect,<\/span><\/span>\u201d that gives a 21st<\/sup>-century twist to natural selection by encouraging the genetic selection of new super-species impervious to blows from the blades (moving at 180 mph) or burst lungs from abrupt changes in pressure.<\/p>\n

We could paint numbers on the offshore ones and claim they are an invaluable aid to navigation \u2013- if you can avoid hitting them.<\/p>\n

And we could all try to exert some self-control and refer to wind turbines on mountain ridges as \u201cWind Turbine Landscape Accents<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00b7<\/span>
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Eric Bibler is a writer living in Connecticut.\u00a0 (Yes, the glasses are real.)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2014Eric Bibler, WTS.com guest editor I just discovered that Cape Wind’s 25-square mile industrial plant in Nantucket Sound is in fact not a \u201cwind factory,\u201d a \u201csprawling open air industrial wind plant\u201d or even a \u201cwind farm,\u201d as I had supposed. According to Cape Wind, it is officially a \u201cWind Park.” This is an inspired choice of words! I am already drafting letters to my local town selectmen asking if we can change a few names around here, such as: \u201cTrash Park,\u201d \u201cSewage Treatment Park,\u201d \u201cCoal Fired Electric Park\u201d and \u201cMaximum Security Correctional Park.\u201d (Well, we don\u2019t actually have one of those, but perhaps we can call the local jail a \u201cLiberty Deprivation Park\u201d \u2013- or something like that.) I\u2019d also like to see if we can\u2019t change the name of I-95, to call it an \u201cInterstate Highway Park,\u201d and I think we should have a few \u201cCell Tower Parks\u201d and \u201cWater Tower Parks,\u201d don’t you? \u00a0Perhaps that strip of the highway that runs past downtown Bridgeport, CT, can be rechristened a \u201cBillboard Park\u201d — to avoid any confusion about its true purpose. Perhaps wind turbine noise should be renamed \u201cWind Turbine Mood Music.\u201d We could refer to the individual wind turbines as \u201cGleaming Energy Independence Mobiles.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,173],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}