Wind farms

[Flyboy91]

Hi,

I previously posted a topic regarding the effect of windtrubines on aviation, my chosen topic for my dissertation. I'm looking at the social and economic impacts they have caused to airports, airlines and the obstructive obstacles they cause, as well as the impact on our landscape. I have created an online questionnaire (link below) to help me with my research and I'd be really grateful if any pilots or air traffic controllers would spend a short time filling this out. Its totally anonymous and only available to those over the age of 18 (uni ethics rules!) If you have any information or experiences on this issue please contact me on here or at:
[email protected] ([email protected])

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dExLQ1JCUW4wY2xLQ1ViQ3I4NmJhUUE6MQ#gid=0 (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dExLQ1JCUW4wY2xLQ1ViQ3I4NmJhUUE6MQ#gid=0)
If you know anyone else who may be interested in giving their opinion on this issue please feel free to pass on my questionnaire or give them my contact details. Thanks in advance!

flyboy91

[MungoP]

Unacceptable Visual Pollution of dubious value..
IMHO

[Moretimeoff]

http://us.mg6.mail.yahoo.com/ya/download?mid=2%5f0%5f0%5f4%5f100277%5fACzci2IAABJGUGJNBAp77G 7YXbY&pid=2&fid=Trash&inline=1&appid=YahooMailNeo

[Lucerne]

Survey Completed. Thank you for the medium. Now I hope they tear the bloody things down!!

[Lucerne]

They are an unacceptable safety risk. Why do CASA not clamp down on them??

[PicMas]

They also tend to cause high winds, notice how the wind is getting stronger as the blades turn faster!

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They also tend to cause high winds, notice how the wind is getting stronger as the blades turn faster!

:)

BTW: Did you know that wind turbines are designed (and sometimes also built) buy the same people who design and build aeroplanes using the same techniques? When studying aerospace engineering in the 1980ies, designing "wind energy converters" was already part of our syllabus.

Personally, I much prefer the sight of windfarms over cooling towers and 250 metre high smokestacks of nuclear and coal fuelled powerplants. Also, I invest my (little remaining...) money in renewable engeries. I would also feel better if the aircraft I fly would be powered by biofuel or something similar.

[chevvron]

What next: have you ever travelled the autobahn between Berlin and Szczecin? Windfarms polluting the landscape every 2 or 3 km; terrible sight!

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What next: have you ever travelled the autobahn between Berlin and Szczecin? Windfarms polluting the landscape every 2 or 3 km; terrible sight!

Have you ever travelled the Autobahn just 100km south between Leipzig and Dresden through the former GDR where lignite is mined from open pits and transformed to electricity on site? Compared to that, a windfarm is a heavenly view.
It's all just a matter of mindset. If you associate wind turbines with "clean and unlimited electricity" then the view becomes pleasing.

http://img.fotocommunity.com/photos/733417.jpg


And this is what the acid rain resulting from the lignite combustion does to the forests (this picture is from the "Erzgebirge" close by):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Waldschaeden_Erzgebirge_2.jpg

Do you really derive any pleasure from flying over that kind of landscape?

[jr of dallas]

For once our hopeless European Governements shoud follow the german example !

Germany Leads With Its Goal Of 100 Percent Renewable Energy (http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/germany-renewable-energy)

And for those wich are still very sceptical like I was...read this very interesting article about "storage" of green electricity by production of methane wich is in turn used in lovely Audi...

Green Car Congress: Audi unveils e-gas project: synthetic methane from the methanation of green hydrogen; series production of CNG models in 2013 powered by e-gas (http://www.greencarcongress.com/2011/05/egas-20110513.html)

So I'd rather fly over solar panels, wind turbines than freaking nuclear stations...

Le progrès est en marche ....:D

[cldrvr]

Careful with quoting old out of date links Jr. Since Merkel's kneejerk reaction to phase out nuclear, coal consumption used for electricity has actually gone up by almost 5% this year. That 100% goal is just a pinprick in the rearview mirror.

Merkel (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-19/merkel-s-green-shift-forces-germany-to-burn-more-coal-energy.html)