Wind Watch: World-renowned expert issues dire warnings to residents of Ontario

200 Picton area residents braved frigid temperatures Thursday night to hear about the serious health risks associated with Industrial Wind Turbines.

Dr. Magda Havas, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Environmental and Resource Studies at Peterborough’s Trent University and one of the world’s leading research experts in the areas of electromagnetic pollution, radiofrequency radiation, ground current and dirty electricity, delivered alarming warnings about the dangers to human and animal health, posed by Industrial Wind Turbines.

Wind Watch: Critics want to pull plug on ‘big extension cord’ through eastern Oregon

A plan to build a 298-mile-long power transmission corridor across eastern Oregon to Idaho is rankling residents who say it will spoil spectacular views and lacerate prime onion-growing territory.

Wind Watch: Pursuit of wind energy wrong policy for Ohio

Stupid policy is the pursuit of wind energy in Ohio. The fact that the Champaign County commissioners signed onto a wind lobby chain letter endorsing local wind development underscores the extent of their failure to understand the science of wind and its environmental impact.

Why is wind a poor choice for Ohio? Climate change. Whether or not you believe in climate change, erecting thousands of wind turbines will neither reduce carbon emissions nor eliminate a single coal-fired power plant because wind is not baseload power. Only hydro, coal and nuclear energy provide baseload power. Ohio is coal dependent and only nuclear can replace coal. Nuclear energy emits no carbon. William Tucker’s recent book, “Terrestrial Energy,” provides a thoughtful review of this.

Wind power is not green. Wind is a variable resource that neither blows all the time nor maintains a constant velocity. An uninformed public fails to understand the nameplate capacity of a wind turbine has nothing to do with how much electricity it will actually generate. Last October, Nicolas Boccard of Spain’s Universitat de Girona documented the mean realized value for Europe over the last five years as close to 21 percent. This means 100 square miles of wind turbines are needed to produce the same amount of energy as a one-square-mile coal plant. Five hundred square miles of turbines are needed to replace one nuclear plant.