It's a bit comical to lay out this story, but it's actually something going on in Germany today.
So for years, the folks planning wind-generators had mostly an open-door to planning, and in the placement of the wind-generators....yes, they might have put 'some' of the 29,844 wind generators in use....into some locations fairly close to the general public. No one is suggesting the number of 'bad-boy' generators, but if you drive around and gaze at placement....you might come to suggest that 10-percent (as a minimum) are too close to villages or cities.
All of this has lead to health issues (at least claimed) and anxiety over the placement issue. You now have communities who pressure the local mayor and city council to halt placement plans, and forbid wind-generators within proximity of the area.
So it came up over the past few days....the SPD Party is looking for a solution, and they've come to big ideas:
1. They want to offer people in these villages who are anti-wind-generators money (bribes) to accept placement, if their region is chosen for a wind-generator farm. No one says how much, and I seriously doubt that it's more than 40 Euro per month.
2. They want the permission to build or prevent building wind-generators.....to be taken away from local mayors/city councils.
You then lay these two situations out on the table, and most Germans just start laughing. The 'you-can't-be-serious' routine starts up.
You can imagine some farming village....fifty houses in this rural setting, and each house would be getting 40 Euro to just look the other way and pretend health issues aren't being created (yet to be factual, I might suggest). Where would the 2,000 Euro each month come from to pay off the village? Well....the wind-generators would have to have some extra tax on electrical power, which would put extra money into their pocket.....to pay this one single village. Everyone in Germany would be paying a 'whore-fee' in order for this bribe business to work.
But then you come to the whole purpose of a mayor and city council to work.....they are supposed to be your first line of defense over construction permits. And you'd take that authority away?
Here's the big deal....if the continual downward trend in wind-generators continue, and we go from 29,844 to around 20,000 by 2030.....where exactly will all this power come from, if the coal plants and nuke plants are shut down?
Yep, all of the original generators were built with time-limits designed into their placement, and as they get up to around 30 years old.....they need to have a new unit put up. That's not happening now....look at the statistical data for the past three years....a massive halt on new generators going up. It's mostly triggered by health worries and anti-wind-generator attitudes around Germany now.
Who drew up the two ideas for the SPD Party? Unknown. But these will probably hurt them in the long-run for potential votes in elections.
2 comments:
Just ask if they'd like to swap them for coal fired power plants? Maybe the folks near them should be on the receiving end of some compensation.
I'm glad to see you're qualifying the 'health problems' as unproven. I'm sure that amount of low frequency energy pushing around has to have some influence on animals but the inverse square law is pretty powerful.
As much as health issues are uttered, it's shocking that no German university has taken to this topic and assigned students to gather data. Part of me wants to believe that that they don't want to open the pandora's box to find that low frequency issues exist, and this rotational/hypnosis issue exists.
But if you look at the life-cycle issue, if this trend isn't corrected in the next two or thee years....there's serious grid shortages that you can forecast by 2025. All of this will bring back the nuke and coal plant discussions (which were closed for discussion in the past year).
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