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Is Wind the Answer?

Click here for an article from World Magazine that addresses whether wind and solar can meet our energy needs.
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People Are Catching On...

From: Smoky Mountain News The answer’s still blowin; but the times may be a’changin’ By Don Hendershot I was heartened recently by two op-eds I read in area newspapers regarding industrial-sized wind turbines in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The reasoned commentaries were written by individuals with firsthand knowledge of science, the scientific method, Appalachian history, energy emissions and the environment. The first commentary I saw, in the May 19 Asheville Citizen-Times, was written by John Droz Jr. of Morehead City and Greig, N.Y., and a frequent visitor to Asheville and WNC. He is a physicist and environmental activist. Droz believes critical thinking and common sense have been eschewed with regards to wind power for the sake of being green. He writes: “As a physicist and long-time environmental advocate, I believe we need aggressive and meaningful changes in our state and federal energy policies. This urgency, though, shouldn’t mean we abandon critical thinking — in...
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Nearly 600 gather for meeting on health effects of turbines

From the Wellington Advertiser by David Meyer "Nearly 600 peo­ple packed the cafeteria at Centre Wellington District High School on March 25 to hear about the possible effects of wind turbines on human health. As the audience heard from three speakers, more and more of them joined the Oppose Belwood Wind Farm group that organized the meeting. After the event, one man approached organizer Laura Humphrey and asked where he could make a dona­tion. He said he would sign a cheque that night for $500 to fight the proposal by Invenergy, of Chicago, to build 25 turbines in the Belwood area of Centre Wellington and into Dufferin County."... Click here for the entire story.
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