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Falmouth Still Thinks Wind Turbine Are A Good Deal?
Massachusetts Residents of Plymouth - Bourne log 350 noise and sleep complaints
The Massachusetts wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of wind power by the year 2020 is a catastrophic failure in safety, health, and finance fiasco.
There is plenty of evidence from 1975 wind turbines should never have been placed near residential homes in Massachusetts. Cuttyhunk Island had one of the world's first wind/diesel systems based Danish Gedser turbines. The wind turbine was taken down as it caused radio, television and phone communication problems with line of sight communications.
The first Massachusetts failure and many more to follow from 1975 to 2020.
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Hanover had a wind turbine that was to be operational by February 2011 but ended with people injured and that turbine was a failure.
Princeton installed two-megawatt wind turbines in 2010 those turbines are costing the town $500,000.00 a year to operate and $900,000.00 for maintenance per year.
Otis Air Base, Cape Cod had a Furlander 1.5 megawatt turbine needed its gearbox replaced within 5 years.
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Two of the three blades on the 15,000 Kw wind turbine at Peck's Boats in Marstons Mills fell off.
The Scituate wind turbine was hit by lightning during a severe thunderstorm and has had problems for years.
Kingston wind turbine suffered a cracked blade and engineers decided to remove a section of the blade and replace it with new material.
A private owned Vestas wind turbine in Falmouth had its gears replaced long before it reached 10 years operation.
The Massachusetts Water Resource Authority’s new wind turbine in Charlestown sank 2 inches in the ground.
Many of the wind turbines installed by Massachusetts State Representatives Mark A. Howland have ceased operation.
In 2017 the Massachusetts courts shut down both town-owned wind turbines forever.
Ipswich in 2019 had a fire that left the town’s second wind turbine set to sit idle for the foreseeable future.
Nearby at Portsmouth High School in Rhode Island, that 2009 turbine had a gearbox failure and is long gone.
Plymouth residents who crowded into the Board of Health meeting on February 12, 2020, have pleaded with several town boards in Bourne and Plymouth and with state officials for years for action to be taken on the noise of the turbines.
The Town of Falmouth Town Meeting Members after all this has approved 2.5 million to disassemble and move two 1.65 megawatt wind turbines that were designed in the 1990s and assembled around 2004 and installed in 2010 and 2012.
Residents living within 3000 feet of megawatt wind turbines pose a risk to human health. The turbines and accounts of those families consist of a range of health effects from hearing loss, nausea, and sleep disorders to dizziness, blood pressure, tinnitus, and more.
In 2016 a Florida, Massachusettes man was tormented by the wind turbine demons: audible and inaudible (infrasound). His last words to friends; "I can't take it anymore, I don't know what to do, ... something must change". Jack died alone on a cold winter night at one of his favorite places beneath those damn wind turbines.
His suicide should have been prevented if the DEP, BOH AG, governor,intervened to protect public health.
