A menace?
Hardly but…
Well, birds, including some protected raptors, have been known to get chopped up in the blades.
Also, a TV station reported that its broadcast signal was disrupted after a wind farm was built nearby.
They received some sort of settlement for upgrades and changes.
I don’t know the science involved (perhaps the construction of the blades?), but it happened.
Aldo, the wealthy, liberal eco-friendly area of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, successfully lobbied against an offshore wind farm in the basis of esthetics…so the old adage “not in my backyard” is alive even for progressive ideas.
I’m not against them, but I have seen some nice areas marred by them, so have a bit of a concern that they are being promoted (or pushed) by people who want the energy but don’t want to pay the price…in the terms of degraded esthetics.
I am wonking on my third prototype of variable pitch H-Darreius..it ought to beat the HAWT props with a clear margin in efficiency…and simplicity..is also lower and quiet. It rews really high..TSR 3 at a low wind speed.
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