Wind Power = Public Enemy #1??
The front page of the S.F Chronicle today. What’s the lead story? Something about the tinderbox in Pakistan? Afghanistan? Kenya? Iraq? Oil coasting to $100 and beyond? The rapid devaluation of the U.S. dollar? No. Here’s what we get: THE DEADLY TOLL OF WIND POWER.
A bit of a dramatic headline, don’t you think? When paired with that sinister ‘robots in the fog’ photo, it seems to scream “WIND POWER IS EVIL!”. At a time when the world needs to embrace alternative energy, the Chronicle decides to find fault with a wind farm that is easy pickings. Focusing on the wind turbines at Altamont Pass in San Joaquin Valley, California, the article discusses the continuing bird kill caused by the old-school fast-moving, low to the ground turbines. Yes, many beautiful raptors smash themselves upon the turbine blades each year. Yes, this is fucking horrible. However, now is NOT the time to give anti-alternative energy proponents even a sliver of ammunition. All over the U.S., people are fighting new wind farms out of fear of lowered property values. Believe me, this article will only help the anti-wind power advocates. The Chronicle is so darned “liberal” (as if there is anything remotely liberal about lily-white, uber-rich NIMBY San Francisco) that it attacks ‘big business’ even when that big business is doing the right thing. What, may I ask, is the incentive for businesses to move toward a sustainable platform? When doing the right thing=making money = incurring the wrath of the mouthpiece of Hypocrisy City?
What of the birds killed each year by cars and trucks? Why isn’t that front page news? After all, news is a numbers game, right? The more killed in a suicide bombing, the closer the article gets to A1, right? Over 4000 birds were killed in 2004 by the Altamont turbines. How many birds were killed by U.S. drivers? BETWEEN 50 AND 100 MILLION. How many animals have YOU hit while driving? Unless you can say zero, or unless you’ve vowed to stop driving, you’ve no right to point fingers.
James Walker, president-elect of the industry-backed American Wind Energy Association, said the wind companies also want to save birds and are helping to fund the study of the problem. He also said wind power helps save bird lives by combatting global warming, which the National Audubon Society acknowledges as a threat to many bird species.
A bit tough to argue, don’t you think?
Also: Alameda County Supervisor Gail Steele…said both the wind industry and the birds need to be protected.“All environmentalists should support both things,” she said.
Amen, Gail.
The entire article is here.
birds, san francisco, wind power
Tags: animal welfare, environment, news
Procedure of loading batteries of an electrical vehicle by Aeolic system
The recharges of batteries, which supplies energy to the electric motor of a vehicle, will be carried out through an Aeolic System composed by the following elements:
-rotor
-generator,
-controller with load
-rectifier
The vehicle, being left over, will always have some air amount whose speed will be directly propertional to the same speed of the vehicle.
The air will enter in the autobody by the embrasures placed in the frontal part of the vehicle, and it will canalized towards the rotores.
The rotores could be one or more and they will be placed inside the auto body in a way not to hinder the advance of the vehicle creating friction.
The Permanent Magnet Generator (PMG) concurs of extracting the maximum
power by the rotor.
The controller with loads serves to prevent the damaging of the batteries.
The generated current will be “alternating current trifase†(AC) and will be converted from the rectifier in “direct current†(DC).
The generator, the controllers electronics, the rectifier and the batteries will be placed into the vehicle.
The direct current, finally, will be canalized, by a power cable , towards the batteries and it will recharge to them.
It will be also possible to load the batteries when the vehicle is stopped.
This is possible because the wind, investing the car from several points, will be put towards a rotor that will create described energy.
Purposes of the plan and advantages:
economic, ecological and social advantage.
the energy produced in march feeds the same march of the vehicle and there is no need to stop for the refueling.
development of an innovative system based on rotators and generators placed into the autobody.
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