Living In New York - Real Perspectives

They'd like you to think turbines are about 60' tall

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:12:10 -0400

Or maybe smaller. I almost laughed when I saw this. They're very good at taking photos like this. What is not clear is that the turbine is quite a bit farther back from the house and the windmill.

Those boxes near the turbine are, I think, double-stacked shipping containers, which would reach the house roof if they sat right next to it. Imagine the house that small and you're getting closer...

Wind Nacelle and Station Wagon

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:52:16 -0400

A nacelle, which houses the generator at the top of the tower, and our car.

Credits: John Sweet, Mustoe VA
Backbone Mountain in Tucker County, WV
14 October 2002
Full photo set at http://johnrsweet.com/personal/wind/windpix2.html

Size and Scale of GE Model Turbines

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:54:40 -0400

Wind turbines compared with the Washington Monument in Washington DC. The new GE turbine generating approximately 3-megawatts (shadow in background) would be shorter but have a larger rotor diameter (140 meters) than an experimental five-megawatt turbine.

Abandoned d'Entremont home Nova Scotia

Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:44:20 -0400

Here is a picture of the d'Entremont home in Nova Scotia, where their ancestors have lived since the 1870s.

Daniel and Carolyn d'Entremont, with their 5 children, had to abandon it on Feb. 21, 2006, because of "wind turbine syndrome," the cluster of symptoms being found around the world where people live near giant wind turbines.

Dr. Nina Pierpont of Malone, N.Y., has interviewed them as part of her research into this problem. She testified before the New York State Legislature Energy Committee on March 7. A 68-KB PDF of her testimony is available at AWEO.org. Here is an excerpt.

Worker and Nacelle

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:31:41 -0400

Mike Yagelski, an ironworker from Livingston, Mont., is dwarfed by the huge rotor that he helped set Thursday, Oct. 6, 2005, high atop a huge wind-powered generator near Judith Gap, Mont.

Semi Truck and Turbines

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:38:47 -0400

A semi truck navigates the gravel roads between wind turbines at the Wild Horse Wind Project construction site, Kittitas County. July 12, 2006.

Montezuma - 230' Turbines

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:17:10 -0400

A farm house near Montezuma, about 25 miles southwest of Dodge City, is dwarfed by a row of 13 wind turbines standing 230 feet tall.

Hull Light Dept's Turbine, Massachusetts

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:56:20 -0500

Hull Light Department's 240-foot-tall wind turbine was erected in 2001.