Wind Watch: It doesn’t feel like home anymore

It has been almost a year now since the Forward Energy wind turbines (Brownsville area) have went on line.

I have tried to keep an open mind and change the way I have looked at wind farms, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen.

I have seen a number of homes in this wind farm go up for sale. Some of the homes are lived in by people that were born and raised here in this township, but because of the issues from the wind turbines, they said it just doesn’t feel like home anymore. The homes for sale in our township that are in the wind farm project have not or still have not been sold. In more than one case, the prospective buyers have stated that they were uncomfortable living so close to a wind turbine or just did not want to live so close to a wind turbines in general. I guess so much for the submitted REPP study that states property values actually go up inside wind farms.

Steven Chu Addresses the National Labs | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine

# The DOE can quite literally “save the world” by developing a sound energy policy going forward, and invent new science that will provide new technologies.

# Our current use of energy not sustainable — have to move forward.

# We are facing something society has never been asked to do before: to deal with ominous problems with climate change. If half of the things climate science tells us are half true, we have a huge problem on our hands and the DOE has to work to provide those solutions.

# The Obama administration is creating a new Energy and Climate Change Council which will serve as a coordinating body including all stake holders in this arena. DOE is first and formost in this but Interior, Agriculture, Treasury and Defense etc. all play a role.