]> http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/quotes/1 en http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/dont_worry_well_write_it <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>The wind salesmen who invaded Malone actually had their lawyers write a zoning ordinance to govern themselves and then tried clandestinely to sneak it into the Planning Board as a sample from another town. One provision would have allowed 400’ high turbines less than 500’ from a home.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; John F. “Jack” Sullivan, Town Councilor, Malone, NY</p> </div> Zoning Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:04:30 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/ges_own_efficiency_tests <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>In testing its own turbines GE found their overall net efficiency to be 10 percent!</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; John F. “Jack” Sullivan, Town Councilor, Malone, NY</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:02:27 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/20_elephants_for_the_small_ones <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>If you weighed Zephyr, our wind turbine, it would tip the scale at a hefty 90 to 100 tons - about the same as 20 elephants.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Moorhead Public Service Commission, MN</p> </div> Fire, Lightning, Accidents Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/balance <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>We do not feel it makes sense to tackle one environmental problem by creating another</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; UK Countryside Commission, 1997</p> </div> Wildlife Impact Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/balance_0 <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>We shall not be seduced by what appears to be 'green' renewable energy solutions which will make little real difference to fossil use. We are particularly concerned about wind energy...</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; UK National Trust, 1999</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/unworkable <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>Nowhere can I find any mention of reservations expressed by either knowledgeable organisations or those who wish to protect the environment. Instead the Committee urges the Government to even greater efforts to produce a wholly unworkable electricity supply system to the ruination of the landscape.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Professor M.A Laughton, FEng, of London University</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/proof_for_the_gullible <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>To us these windfarms are a disaster in the countryside, we know their effect on ‘global warming’ is pathetically tiny, but to the Government they are seen as ‘proof positive’ to a gullible populace that something really is being done to reduce CO2 emissions.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Edward Luscombe, C.Eng., B.Sc. (Eng.), MIEE</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/too_many_for_too_little_output <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>A five-fold increase in wind turbines would only replace 1/1000th of the fossil fuel use in the UK.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; National Trust. "A Call for the Wild", May 1999</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/need_a_propeller <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>On Samsø, a 55 kW Nordtank threw a blade through a window into an indoor swimming pool, according to one knowledgeable source.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Paul Gipe, "Wind Energy Comes of Age"</p> </div> Fire, Lightning, Accidents Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/industry_means_accidents <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>In the mid-1990s, 14 men had been killed on wind turbines or working with wind energy. Since then six more have died, including the first member of the public, a parachutist who literally flew into a turbine in Germany.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Paul Gipe, "Wind Energy Comes of Age"</p> </div> Fire, Lightning, Accidents Sat, 22 Jul 2006 12:47:13 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/so_thats_why <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>I wouldn’t be against them [large wind turbines] if they actually worked.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; James Lovelock, eminent scientist, during an interview with the Guardian, London, 5/22/05</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Wed, 19 Jul 2006 21:55:56 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/think_youre_getting_pilot_payments <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>They led us to believe we would get a substantial amount of money from them by way of taxes and now they come up with kind of a loophole in it, wanting to get some sort of an exception.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; Ron Dustin at the Wayne County's hearing on wind energy developer's appeal of 2004 tax bill; The Wayne Independent 4/15/05</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:17:18 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/useful <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>Western Denmark used only 16% of its wind plant production in 2003</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; AWEO</p> </div> Cost & Efficiency Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:11 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/tilting_at_windmills <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>Look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants rise up, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; from "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes</p> </div> Court Cases Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:11 -0400 http://hamlin.livinginnewyork.org/sense_from_up_top <div class="quotes-quote"> <p>The Prince of Wales believes that wind farms are a "horrendous blot on the landscape" and that their spread must be halted before they irreparably ruin some of Britain's most beautiful countryside.</p> </div> <div class="quotes-author"> <p>&mdash; news.telegraph, UK, Oct 25, 2004</p> </div> Aesthetics & Visual Mon, 17 Jul 2006 13:17:53 -0400