Falmouth Wind Turbine Triage Public Put At Risk

A case can be made that the State of Massachusetts put the public safety and health at risk over wind turbine constructions

The state had a wind turbine renewable energy goal of 2000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020

In 2005 based on the size of the wind turbines at that time the state needed around 3300 commercial wind turbines.

Massachusetts coastal towns and the mountains of western Massachusetts have the highest wind speed resources.

Massachusetts is one of the most heavily populated states especially along the coast and mountain regions.

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and Executive Office of Environmental Affairs in total disregard for public health developed a model bylaw to help cities and towns install wind turbines.

The neighbors in twenty one Massachusetts communities today complain of a noise described as torture from lack of sleep.

Staring in 1976 with the installation of a small 200 Kilowatt wind turbine on Cuttyhunk Island research was done by Paul D. Phillips. The research stated blade failure in a 1.5 Megawatt machine could result in fragments being flung out to a distance of a quarter-mile or 1300 feet. The 1976 study also revealed if a large machine had to be sited in a populated area for economic or other reasons, the potential safety factors might well rise to the level of a significant impact on the environment.

The State of Massachusetts ignored the results of federal studies done as far back as 1976. The Cuttyhunk wind wind turbine was a failure and at that time the island returned to generator power. Also at that time the Cuttyhunk wind turbine raised questions with interference with line of sight communications between Falmouth and New Bedford.

Massachusetts officials ignored research supported by the US Department of Energy, Dr. Neil Kelly and his colleagues in 1987 identified impulsive low frequency noise. The wind turbine infra sound and vibration produced “ Human Annoyance “ within neighbors homes.

In 2005 the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center warned the residents of Mattapoisett of two distinct types of noise from the wind turbines. One was regulatory measured in decibels and the other that had to be taken into consideration was " Human Annoyance "

Massachusetts Technology Collaborative today the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and their wind turbine.

Guru Nils Bolgen where well aware that human annoyance was infra sound.

The warning of human annoyance caused the collapse of wind turbine installations in Mattapoisett. The state semi-quasi agency then dropped the warnings of "Human Annoyance" from the Falmouth wind studies.

In order to install 1.5 megawatt large commercial wind turbines in Massachusetts in heavily populated areas the state found the Town of Falmouth was willing to gamble their population for one million dollars of up front money from the semi quasi state agency that was stuck with two Vestas V 82 commercial 1.65 megawatt wind turbines they couldn't sell at auction because of noise warnings

The Town of Falmouth hid noise warnings letters, memos, videos your name it they hid it from the public. It's a well know fact today.

The state used the Falmouth wind installations as a model for twenty one other towns that today are suffering the same consequences of the failed commercial wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of wind power by 2020.

The bottom line around the world neighbors of wind turbines describe the noise from wind turbines as torture from lack of sleep

In 2013 in a memo to the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Board of Directors it made clear the 2005 acoustic noise tests for the installation of the Falmouth wind turbines was flawed and they underestimated the noise.

A KEMA study map showed in 2005 the noise levels on roads like Blacksmith Shop road would exceed 40 decibels.

In 2013 after the acknowledgement of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center Board of Directors memo the wind director Nils Bolgen changed the setbacks to wind turbines to 2000 feet.

The change in the setbacks to 2000 feet by Nils Bolgen all but ended commercial wind turbine projects in Massachusetts.

Looking back on the wind turbine installations in Massachusetts state and local officials followed a political agenda to install 2000 megawatts of commercial wind power. In order to meet that goal the health and property rights of up to around 200 residential homes had to be taken in almost every town where a turbine was to be placed.

The state renewable energy goal was actually posed to towns as a wind turbine triage. Towns had to quickly take the turbines to stop the carbon emissions. The carbon emissions were described as degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.

The wind turbine was a process for sorting injured people into groups based on their need for or likely benefit from immediate carbon poisoning.

The state had declared an actual war on carbon emissions in which triage is used on the battlefield, at disaster sites, and in hospital emergency rooms when limited medical resources must be allocated.

In this case Falmouth had to give up the health and property rights of up to 200 residential home owners for the failed agenda.......