{"id":15907,"date":"2011-07-10T17:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=15907"},"modified":"2012-01-21T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T17:29:16","slug":"size-matters-yikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/size-matters-yikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Size matters!  Yikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014<a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.thegreatforgetting.com','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatforgetting.com\" target=\"_blank\">Calvin Luther Martin<\/a>, PhD<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Just when you thought you&#8217;d seen everything &#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7 <\/span><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blade-550x235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blade-550x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blade-550x235.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Blade-550x235-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">The new <a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/news\/1062844\/Vestas-launches-V164-7MW-offshore-turbine\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/news\/1062844\/Vestas-launches-V164-7MW-offshore-turbine\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vestas164-7.0 MW<\/a> blade (courtesy of <a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/home\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">windpowermonthly.com<\/a>)<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><br \/>\nDon&#8217;t bother getting out your calculator: \u00a080 meters = 262 feet. \u00a0But remember, that&#8217;s only 1 of 3 blades.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s all the statistics on the <a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/news\/1062844\/Vestas-launches-V164-7MW-offshore-turbine\/','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.windpowermonthly.com\/news\/1062844\/Vestas-launches-V164-7MW-offshore-turbine\/\" target=\"_blank\">V164 7MW<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>swept area \u00a021,124 square meters\u00a0(227,319 square feet = 5.2 acres = 4 National Football League football fields with both 30-foot end zones included)<\/li>\n<li>blade length \u00a080 meters (262 feet)<\/li>\n<li>minimum hub height \u00a0105 meters (344 feet to nacelle from the ground)<\/li>\n<li>rotor diameter \u00a0164 meters (538 feet)<\/li>\n<li>tip height \u00a0187 meters (614 feet)<\/li>\n<li>weight \u00a0800 tons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What does 800 tons look like? \u00a0It looks like <a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.vincelewis.net\/RH400.html','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vincelewis.net\/RH400.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lebdig-539x488.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15934\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lebdig-539x488.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lebdig-539x488.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/lebdig-539x488-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #656563;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><br \/>\nNow, read &#8220;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/the-bigger-they-are-the-more-lfn-denmark\/\" target=\"_blank\">The bigger they are, the more low frequency noise<\/a><span style=\"color: #656563;\">.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"color: #656563;\"> <span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inner-ear-structures-400x352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5258\" title=\"Inner-ear-structures-400x352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inner-ear-structures-400x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inner-ear-structures-400x352.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Inner-ear-structures-400x352-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7<\/span><br \/>\nVestas says these monsters are for offshore use. \u00a0Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, if you look at the history of industrial wind turbine installation, you soon discover that what we all thought were monsters &#8220;back then&#8221; were designed either for remote places (i.e., not in your backyard) or out at sea or giant lakes.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what? \u00a0They wound up in someone&#8217;s backyard. \u00a0Lots of backyards.<\/p>\n<p>The take-home message being: \u00a0If Big Wind can finagle putting these &#8220;goliaths&#8221; in your backyard, chances are very good they&#8217;ll do it.<\/p>\n<p>How do they finagle that? \u00a0By continuing to deny infrasound\/low frequency noise, by continuing to claim these machines are as quiet as a babbling brook or refrigerator, and by continuing to bombard government at all levels with the <a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henny_Penny','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Henny_Penny\" target=\"_blank\">Chicken Little<\/a> message that planet earth <em>needs<\/em> these structures, everywhere (read: \u00a0&#8220;your backyard&#8221;), to save us from Global Warming. \u00a0And, of course, by merely moving them back a bit further (setback), to, say, 2000 or 3000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>So it goes. \u00a0(And if you insist on believing Big Wind&#8212;that these suckers ain&#8217;t gonna wind up in people&#8217;s backyards&#8212;I&#8217;ve got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. . . .)<\/p>\n<p>Or your backyard, where your neighbor (often an absent property owner) has signed a &#8220;sweet&#8221; turbine deal for 20 years, renewable up to 50. \u00a0(By the way, your town supervisor or a close relative of his has also signed a lease, which is why the supervisor thinks these wind machines are just the ticket for your township.)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My friends, you&#8217;re looking at the new Big Idol. \u00a0The new Golden Calf (of Hebrew tradition). \u00a0The new Sphinx. \u00a0From ancient mythology&#8212;a mythology which has not died, by the way. \u00a0It never died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;History&#8221; is not over; the past is not dead. \u00a0It never was. \u00a0This kind of mentality&#8212;colossal, planet-saving machines&#8212;is deeply woven into the fabric of western history.<\/p>\n<p>For the more scholarly among you, I strongly recommend reading\u00a0Norman Cohn, <em><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cosmos-Chaos-World-Come-Apocalyptic\/dp\/B000IMYHKY\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310401470&amp;sr=1-2','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Cosmos-Chaos-World-Come-Apocalyptic\/dp\/B000IMYHKY\/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310401470&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\">Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come:  The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith<\/a><\/em> (New Haven &amp; London:  Yale Univ. Press, 1993)&#8212;a peer-reviewed book, incidentally. \u00a0I also recommend my own, <em><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirit-Earth-Rethinking-History-Time\/dp\/0801847095\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310401402&amp;sr=8-2','','scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=1000,height=1000,left='+(screen.availWidth\/2-500)+',top='+(screen.availHeight\/2-500)+'');return false;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spirit-Earth-Rethinking-History-Time\/dp\/0801847095\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310401402&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\">In the Spirit of the Earth: \u00a0Rethinking History &amp; Time<\/a><\/em> (Baltimore: \u00a0Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992)&#8212;likewise peer-reviewed prior to publication. \u00a0(<span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">Credentials check: \u00a0I was a tenured professor of history at Rutgers University for decades. \u00a0I wrote the &#8220;best book in American history&#8221; in 1978, as judged by the American Historical Association. \u00a0I have been a National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. \u00a0I know what I&#8217;m talking about, here.<\/span>)<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/William-Butler-Yeats-278.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/William-Butler-Yeats-278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"278\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/William-Butler-Yeats-278.jpg 278w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/William-Butler-Yeats-278-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/a>William Butler Yeats<\/h6>\n<p>The Irish poet W.B. Yeats captured the message in &#8220;The Second Coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Turning and turning in the widening gyre<br \/>\nThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;<br \/>\nThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;<br \/>\nMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,<br \/>\nThe blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere<br \/>\nThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;<br \/>\nThe best lack all conviction, while the worst<br \/>\nAre full of passionate intensity.<\/p>\n<p>Surely some revelation is at hand;<br \/>\nSurely the Second Coming is at hand.<br \/>\nThe Second Coming! Hardly are those words out<br \/>\nWhen a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi<br \/>\nTroubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert<br \/>\nA shape with lion body and the head of a man,<br \/>\nA gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,<br \/>\nIs moving its slow thighs, while all about it<br \/>\nReel shadows of the indignant desert birds.<br \/>\nThe darkness drops again; but now I know<br \/>\nThat twenty centuries of stony sleep<br \/>\nWere vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,<br \/>\nAnd what rough beast, its hour come round at last,<br \/>\nSlouches toward Bethlehem to be born?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">\u00b7 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sphinx-550.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sphinx-550.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sphinx-550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/sphinx-550-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 \u2014Calvin Luther Martin, PhD \u00b7 Just when you thought you&#8217;d seen everything &#8230; \u00b7 The new Vestas164-7.0 MW blade (courtesy of windpowermonthly.com) \u00b7 Don&#8217;t bother getting out your calculator: \u00a080 meters = 262 feet. \u00a0But remember, that&#8217;s only 1 of 3 blades. Here&#8217;s all the statistics on the V164 7MW: swept area \u00a021,124 square meters\u00a0(227,319 square feet = 5.2 acres = 4 National Football League football fields with both 30-foot end zones included) blade length \u00a080 meters (262 feet) minimum hub height \u00a0105 meters (344 feet to nacelle from the ground) rotor diameter \u00a0164 meters (538 feet) tip height \u00a0187 meters (614 feet) weight \u00a0800 tons What does 800 tons look like? \u00a0It looks like this. \u00b7 \u00b7 Now, read &#8220;The bigger they are, the more low frequency noise.&#8221; \u00b7 \u00b7 Vestas says these monsters are for offshore use. \u00a0Maybe. Problem is, if you look at the history of industrial wind turbine installation, you soon discover that what we all thought were monsters &#8220;back then&#8221; were designed either for remote places (i.e., not in your backyard) or out at sea or giant lakes. Guess what? \u00a0They wound up in someone&#8217;s backyard. \u00a0Lots of backyards. The take-home message being: \u00a0If Big Wind can finagle putting these &#8220;goliaths&#8221; in your backyard, chances are very good they&#8217;ll do it. How do they finagle that? \u00a0By continuing to deny infrasound\/low frequency noise, by continuing to claim these machines are as quiet as a babbling brook or refrigerator, and by continuing to bombard government at all levels with the Chicken Little message that planet earth needs these structures, everywhere (read: \u00a0&#8220;your backyard&#8221;), to save us from Global Warming. \u00a0And, of course, by merely moving them back a bit further (setback), to, say, 2000 or 3000 feet. So it goes. \u00a0(And if you insist on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2011\/size-matters-yikes\/#rdmore\" >Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907"}],"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=15907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}