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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Wind power is not a bad idea according to Mr Hirst, but placement of 450 foot towers has to respect property rights of adjacent property owners and operators of tower must prevent the windfarms from harming the local ecology.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from livescience.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. We are not against wind mills. We have numerous wind mills on our many ranches and farms. Read about our Flying X Ranch here http://www.seedlingsrus.com/SierraCountyRanch.html so you will see we do like windmills. We only we are concerned with their environmental and property rights implications. We are pro windpower as it is for the most part environmentally friendly.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the center of the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScience.com, : When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

This download shows a typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because windspeed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

During the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed technologically possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and digatree.com/Living Fences.

Tags: build your own wind turbine, skystream wind turbine, how to build your own wind turbine, wind turbine

Wind Turbine Generators.

More and more one hears of the environmental issues that have risen as well as the ways in which to help improve the environment. Many people are coming to appreciate the fact that we are destroying our world, and that we must take steps to improve the environment and environmental threats that surround us.

Wind turbines collect energy from natural air flow. When this happens, due to the function of wind turbines, the air slows down and then spreads, diverting it around the wind turbine device or devices.

Here is a condensed idea of how the wind turbine works:

1. The Betz Limit

o Betz Law or, the Betz Limit determined that the use of a wind turbine can generate almost fifty-nine percent of the energy that would flow straight through the cross section in the construction of a turbine.

o No matter what kind of wind turbine or wind turbines one has, regardless of design, the Betz Limit applies.

o Albert Betz, a physicist from Germany, discovered this fact: that a wind turbine works (almost universally) as an incredibly effective kind of energy net for wind power.

o Albert Betz made this discovery in the year 1919.

2. The Unpredictability of Windy Weather

o Because windiness varies no matter where you live, it is impossible to predict exactly how much wind can be generated over a significant period of time such as the yield per year.

o In addition, different places have different probabilities of amounts of wind distribution.

o The most frequently used piece of equipment used to determine the wind speed distribution is a two ? parameter Weibull distribution monitor.

o This piece of equipment is used to determine what have been termed 'distribution shapes? from Gaussian to exponential.

For example: The Rayleigh model

This is a specific form of the Weilbull distribution function. In such a case, the distribution shape should be a parameter that equals two. Imitating or mirroring the distribution shapes, the Rayleigh model of the exact hourly wind speeds and patterns of a particular area.

3. Higher Wind Speed

o Because in certain places there is so much wind power to draw from, a lot of the wind in such places comes in gusts or short bursts.

o Here's a good example:

When comparing the size of fueled power plants to the potential power of wind turbine farms, one will find that 10000 kW of wind turbine power is theoretically enough to produce as much power and energy as approximately one half of that, in power generation that is coal ? fired.

o Despite unpredictability, the annual reports of wind turbine energy output usually vary by only a few points from year to year.

4. Turbine Sitting ? when location is key:

o The general rule is that when a location has an average wind speed of ten miles per hour it is a perfect location for wind generators.

o Meteorology plays a very important part in the determination of exactly where to set up a wind farm or any other kind of wind turbine generator.

o Ideally, one wants a location with a constant stream of wind as opposed to turbulent, gusty high mph winds.

o The wind will virtually always blow faster at higher altitudes because of reduced drag from the sea or land, as well as the subsequently lower amounts of viscosity in the wind current.

o Very flat lands with smooth average speed winds are great locations for wind turbines as well.

5. Wind Parks and / or wind Farms of have many wind power turbines installed.

o Utility-scale wind turbine generators have to have limits for the operating minimum.

o This can prevent the application of a wind power generation system in especially cold areas

o There are, however, many experiments in the making. There are internal heaters, heating lubricants, and minimum temperature monitors to consider in the installation and use of wind turbines.

More and more one hears of the environmental issues that have risen as well as the ways in which to help improve the environment. Many people are coming to appreciate the fact that we are destroying our world, and that we must take steps to improve the environment and environmental threats that surround us.

Professionals have estimated that 1% to 3% of the Sun's energy, the energy that hits the earth, transforms into wind energy. To give you an idea of how much energy this is, in simple terms: it is about fifty to one-hundred times the amount of energy that is produced by plant life and biomass over the entire earth.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

The most obvious advantage is that wind power is totally free. Of course
you should invest in building a power generator but still this is a minor
investment compared to the bulky utility bills your household is getting every
month. Moreover maintenance costs are pretty low ? both time and money required
for windmill upkeep.

?

Green living is gaining a lot of popularity nowadays. The term includes
various activities all aimed at saving the planet and doing less environmental
harm with our day to day life and activities.

Part of the green living idea is using alternative methods for producing
power such as using wind or solar power instead of traditional power plants.

Advantages of wind power are numerous and we will mention some of the
main ones in the following lines.

The most obvious advantage is that wind power is totally free. Of course
you should invest in building a power generator but still this is a minor
investment compared to the bulky utility bills your household is getting every
month. Moreover maintenance costs are pretty low ? both time and money required
for windmill upkeep.

Wind power generators are environmentally safe way to producing energy.
They don't pollute the air or water and they don't need any kind of fuel to
run. Moreover windmills don't require large space top be built. In that sense
they are convenient for garden of any size as well as very suitable for farming
areas.

Another huge advantage of wind power is that it is available in areas
where central electricity is not available. Remote areas such as mountains or agricultural
areas can still have their own power supply without being part of the
electricity power grid.

Windmills are available is any size and for that reason they can supply
with sufficient power any size of household. Of course to make this happen,
wind speed and wind patters have to be taken into consideration too.

Since we mentioned the main advantages of wind power, it is good to say
something about the disadvantages too. Windmills are noisy and that is the main
consideration for many household when they consider constructing windmill in
their yard. Wind power turbines can sometimes interfere with nearby TVs and
that is why many household are reluctant to using wind power as an alternative
power supply source. Another significant disadvantage is that wind power is
very dependant on weather conditions ? power is produced only when there is
wind with sufficient force. On the other hand stormy weather can seriously harm
windmills.

Regardless of these drawbacks it is becoming more and clearer that
private individual as well as large scale businesses are looking for cheaper
and safer ways of producing energy. In this sense the advantages of wind power
are much more than the drawbacks and it is expected that it will gain more and
more popularity in the coming years.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Please not we are not against wind power , are for private property rights. Industrial wind power operations exist using wind resources and air space of neighboring properties.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from livescience.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James is not against wind power. James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences. James also owns many ranches which use windmills... see SierraCountyRanch.html to see one of his many ranches which does use wind power.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Please not we are not against wind power , are for private property rights. Industrial wind power operations exist using wind resources and air space of neighboring properties.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from livescience.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James is not against wind power. James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences. James also owns many ranches which use windmills....see http://seedlingsrus.com/SierraCountyRanch.html to see one of his many ranches which does use wind power.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Wind power is not a bad idea according to Mr Hirst, but placement of 450 foot towers has to respect property rights of adjacent property owners and operators of tower must prevent the windfarms from harming the local ecology.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: - The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. - It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. - Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... - There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. - There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? - The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com/scan. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences

Tags: wind turbine diagrams, Buy generator for small wind turbine, redriven wind turbines, Turbine

Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Please not we are not against wind power , are for private property rights. Industrial wind power operations exist using wind resources and air space of neighboring properties.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 (8 Jan. 2004); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

Digatree.com/scan. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James is not against wind power. James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences. James also owns many ranches which use windmills... see seedlingsrus.com/SierraCountyRanch.html to see one of his many ranches which does use wind power.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. We are not against wind mills. We have numerous wind mills on our many ranches and farms. Read about our Flying X Ranch here http://www.seedlingsrus.com/SierraCountyRanch.html so you will see we do like windmills. We only we are concerned with their environmental and property rights implications. We are pro windpower as it is for the most part environmentally friendly.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the center of the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from href="http://www.livescience.com/environment/04110
9_wind_mills.html">www.LiveScience.com , : When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

This download shows a typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because windspeed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

During the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed technologically possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences

Tags: building a wind turbine, home wind turbine generators, wind turbine manufacturers, 17 kva wind turbine generator

Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Wind power is not a bad idea according to Mr Hirst, but placement of 450 foot towers has to respect property rights of adjacent property owners and operators of tower must prevent the windfarms from harming the local ecology. Wind power plants if left unchecked could become a new form of DDT killing thousands of birds and harming the ecology of areas near the wind power plants.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com/scan. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com.

Tags: how wind turbines work, redriven wind turbines, wind turbine designs, Turbine

Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Please not we are not against wind power , are for private property rights. Industrial wind power operations exist using wind resources and air space of neighboring properties.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: - The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. - It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. - Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... - There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. - There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145 - 148 (8 Jan. 2004); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com/scan. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James is not against wind power. James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences. James also owns many ranches which use windmills... see http://seedlingsrus.com/SierraCountyRanch.html to see one of his many ranches which does use wind power.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: - The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. - It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. - Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... - There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect every-one's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com/scan This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hot dog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and digatree.com/Living Fences.

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Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Wind power is not a bad idea according to Mr Hirst, but placement of 450 foot towers has to respect property rights of adjacent property owners and operators of tower must prevent the windfarms from harming the local ecology.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from livescience.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: -The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. -It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. -Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... -There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. -There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 ( 8 Jan. 2004 ); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

digatree.com. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/Living Fences

Tags: how to build your own wind turbine, how do wind turbines work, wind turbine costs, maglev wind turbine

Wind Turbine Generators.

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania. Wind power is not a bad idea according to Mr Hirst, but placement of 450 foot towers has to respect property rights of adjacent property owners and operators of tower must prevent the windfarms from harming the local ecology.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY ....Big Windmills Make Big Ecological Problems

Highland Hill Farm Vice President William J. Hirst of Fountainville, PA, announces that Highland Hill Farm will fund projects, research, and fund litigation to promote and protect citizens and the environment from the placement of wind power turbines in New York and Pennsylvania.

Environmental Threats by Proposed Windmills at Fairfield, NY

There is a proposed large scale wind power electricity generating project located in Herkimer County, in central New York state. Among the nearby surrounding properties affected is a 160- acre parcel that is currently being used as a tree resource, East Penn Gardens, a natural growth tree farm, owned by James R. Hirst, a supplier to Highland Hill Farm. This project has an attractive shrewdly designed name. It is euphemistically called "Top Notch," in the proposal by PPM Atlantic Renewable, a foreign-owned wind power company. This company proposes to place a total of 56 wind turbines, each generating a maximum of 1.5 megawatts, in the adjacent area surrounding the East Penn Gardens parcel.

The turbines, with the turbine blades 450 feet up in the air (the Statue of Liberty's torch is only about 300 feet up) will forever change the environment of Top Notch AND the surrounding areas. Highland Hill Farm and East Penn Gardens will both fight this project in every possible legal manner. According to an article from LiveScienc
e.com, :

When power companies started installing towering arrays of white wind turbines as a clean, efficient energy alternative to oil and coal, critics pointed to the farms as noisy, unattractive, and fatal to passing birds. Many of these concerns were since addressed, but questions still remained about local and global weather impacts. Wind energy output is growing by about 30 percent a year globally. To answer the global question, David Keith of the University of Calgary and his colleagues estimated the drag that wind farms hypothetically expanded to cover 10 percent of the Earth's land surface could have on the planet's circulating atmosphere. The result showed global cooling in polar regions above 60 degrees North latitude and global warming in temperate regions such as North America at about 30 degrees North latitude. A forecast for a hotter, drier Earth could result if we build too many wind power generating plants throughout the world. The results were released yesterday and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Somnath Baidya Roy of Princeton University headed up a related project that studied the impact of simulated, extensive wind farms on local weather and found they could cause a drying and warming effect in the morning when somewhat inefficient turbines end up pushing warm air across moist and cool overnight soil. Local wind speed would also increase slightly, the experiment showed. Baidya Roy and his colleagues figured the meteorological costs of a simulated 60-mile-square wind farm by running a mathematical model of a climate system in Oklahoma on a computer. The local impact study was published recently in the Journal of Geophysical Research. "People treat renewable energy as if it's a free lunch. That is not true," Baidya Roy said. "You always have to pay a price for any consumption. We have to look at the costs and make a choice." As you will see in the bulleted list below, the ecology of East Penn Gardens will be effected in many serious and detrimental ways: - The natural bird and bat populations will be at risk as air flows to and from the woodlot are changed. - It is estimated that the mean temperature change in the 160 acre East Penn Gardens parcel where measurements have been made will be up to 2 degrees Fahrenheit. This will of course increase evaporation rates. Plant and animal life will be stressed and surrounding wetlands will be drier. - Changing the temperature of this immediate typical temperate arboreal zone (cool, moist, northern forest) will affect native trout. When temperatures rise, dissolved oxygen in the water gets lowered, understandably, the fish suffer... - There are known EPA officially registered endangered species of plants and animals living in the East Penn parcel's wooded forests and marshy wetlands. These species will undoubtedly have their habitat changed, most likely for the worse if the "mega-scale" turbines are installed. - There will be shadow problems and windmill flicker problems. In short, the huge blades break up sunlight into a staccato facsimile of flashes like Morse Code as they spin around, don't they? -The noise from the blades may not compare with a helicopter's rotor blades, but the low hum we hear affects other life forms differently. Wind turbines generate both audible and low frequency [deep base vibration] sound waves. Imagine standing amidst 160 acres of formerly serene forest with 15 gigantic wind turbines installed near and around you, located on 3 sides.

A recent study claims that 20% of all species worldwide will become extinct if the temperature rises just .8 degrees Centigrade, or more than 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, by the year 2100. Won't a similar 2 degree Fahrenheit change in the East Penn Gardens local area described threaten local habitats? Of course it will. The study claiming that global warming would cause species to become extinct was in Nature 427, 145- 148 (8 Jan. 2004); by C.D. Thomas et al.

Highland Hill Farm will begin legal filings that will attempt to block this project. James Hirst believes wind turbines placed so close to his property, discharging air, changing the flow of air, raising the temperature, changing the incident light, and adding sound waves, at his property is a use of his air rights and he will file an injunction to address this question. Highland Hill Farm will help fund this legal claim as, according to William Hirst, this will serve to protect everyone's rights to their air space from industrial discharges without due process and or compensation. Just as one homeowner in a neighborhood cannot emanate offensive odors, or noise(s), block sunlight, or block the view, for any other neighbors, and not just those immediately adjacent to his or her property, neither can Atlantic Energy Renewable do so, even in a sparsely populated rural area like Herkimer County, NY.

The local zoning codes, define the tower setback zone for residences at 1250 feet, for public roads at 500 feet, and unoccupied private property at the height of the tower, measured only to the rotors' center, and not including the base, as being 30'. This zoning code allowance means that a 50 foot tower can be 30 feet from the property line because the base and rotor tip extended range is not included in the height calculation from a property line (the 30 feet limit established by the code restriction establishes that the rotor blade must be 30 feet from the ground), thus a 40 foot tower with a 10 foot diameter blade can be as close as 30 feet from a property line. If the base of a tower is elevated, then the rotor tip could be raised up from ground level and the tower could even be closer than 30 feet from the property line! This is a extremely vague, don't you agree? The statute creates setbacks which deny some classes of property owners their property rights. Therefore, some property owners are denied "due process" and "equal protection" under this law. Furthermore, this law does not promote the health and welfare of the community, nor establish reasonable guidelines for safety of the community, nor protection of property values by zoning use restrictions.

www.digatree.com/scan. This
download shows typical construction area which Atlantic Renewable has filed with its Environmental Assessment Report. Atlantic Renewable has submitted this as part of its permitting process. We see no evidence in these photos (the poor quality is our fault in copying, sorry) of any attempts whatsoever to control erosion during what is, in fact, the most sensitive stage of site development. Construction is when extra care, extraordinary concern is required to alleviate impacts on any site and the surrounding environment. Atlantic Renewable energy spokesmen claim their company's projects do not harm the environment. Yet, if they are showing in their application photos in which they are already not protecting the environment during construction, when effects on the environment are so crucial, how can any of us have even the slightest confidence Atlantic Energy Renewable will attempt to protect the site and its surroundings during ordinary routine operations, after they finish construction?

Don't forget, conserving oil is NOT a reason for erecting wind power electricity generating turbines. According the EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute, in 2005, only 2.8% of America's electricity came from oil-fired generating plants. And, we should also note that wind powered generating turbines only produce an average of about 25%, or one-quarter, of their maximum production rating, because wind speed often falls below 12 miles per hour in even the windiest places (from the AWEA, American Wind Energy Association).

Imagine a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without peanuts. Imagine going to a ball game and having no buns for your hotdog. Imagine image our skies without birds. This is why during the months of January and February, all sales at Highland Hill Farm will be used for the campaign to stop the proposed "Top Notch" wind power generating turbines. We want to help promote awareness of the issues by the general public, as well as fund legal actions to assist property owners in their quest for justice, so that they are adequately compensated, in legal terms, "to be made whole." Further, Highland Hill Farm has contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get them, along with state government agencies, begin a program to place leg bands with transponders on affected birds which will be able to turn off rotors of wind power turbines when birds approach. Once a species of bird is extinct, there is absolutely no way we can bring them back, at least not currently (pun intended). Almost all wind turbines are fitted with automatic braking devices. They can be damaged when the rotor blades go too fast if wind gusts are strong enough... It is indeed possible for transponder/shutoff systems to be incorporated into wind power turbines to stop the killing of endangered birds.

Bill Hirst
Highland Hill Farm

About The Author

James Ryan has a large nursery in Bucks County Pa near Doylestown. He has thousands of Green Giants and writes about there uses. His web sites include http://www.seedlingsrus.com and http://www.digatree.com/ Fences

Tags: wind turbine generators, vertical wind turbine, how to build your own wind turbine, wind turbine diagrams

Wind Turbine Generators.