Massachusetts Wind Energy Disaster Heads To Sea

Massachusetts in 2005 had an ambitious political plan to curb 25 percent of its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

The state politicians had very little success with land-based wind power and have been deemed a disaster by Congress. There was a surge in wind power up until 2013 when at least twenty-one communities including Falmouth determined the wind turbines were too loud, cast a shadow at sunset and sunrise in which the courts determined they are a nuisance

Massive litigation cases with neighbors in Falmouth and other towns have raised concerns about wind turbines’ noise, shadow flicker, and impact on property values. It was found in Falmouth that each of the wind turbines generates almost twice the noise as preliminary studies done for the town at 110 decibels of noise capable of producing infra-sound.

The direct health effect, annoyance, and nuisance attributed to wind turbine noise by residents within 3000 feet were associated with migraines, dizziness, tinnitus, chronic pain, hair cortisol concentrations (an indicator of stress), blood pressure, and self-reported sleep quality. The lack of sleep leads to immune system deficiencies leading to cancer.

The Massachusetts wind turbine agenda of 2000 megawatts of land-based wind power has ended in 2020 at a little over 100 megawatts of wind power.

Massachusetts taxpayers are gullible sheeple. These are gullible people who act like sheep continuing to following a failed political wind turbine agenda now into the ocean after the land-based diaster. The evidence supports the land-based political agenda was an ill-advised course of action.

The land-based wind turbines were a boon for wind turbine companies, law firms, and engineering companies installing and now taking down the turbines while the taxpayers take it on the chin.

Now comes the ocean wind turbine projects and in Falmouth its Déjà Vu.

The Falmouth Select Board met with ocean wind turbine contractors who notified the town they will get ocean wind turbine cables and an electric substation in one of the neighborhoods somewhere in Falmouth. The cables could carry up to 800 megawatts or 220,000 volts of electricity in which case will go overhead through the town of Falmouth to the electric grid.

Hopefully, your dream home is not slated near some future high voltage power lines and substation, and then you’re wondering if that “dream” is more like a nightmare like those around the Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant.

For those that think the ocean wind turbines are a good deal, you should look at the Block Island, Rhode Island ocean wind turbine project.

Block Island Wind Farm in Rhode Island is America's first offshore wind farm. The project consists of five ocean wind turbines each with a rating of 6 megawatts each. The preconstruction promise was to lower Block Island resident electric rates 40 percent. It never happened!

The first turbine installed in 2015 was a failure and had to be replaced as the base had problems and parts left in a motor.

The 330 million dollar costs to install the demonstration ocean wind project included the electric cables which were known to be installed incorrectly. The wind farm was sold later for a profit.

Rhode Island electric ratepayers are now expected to pay 30 million to replace and reconstruct the high voltage power line from Block Island to Narragansett.

The big question today and the future is the ocean wind turbines infrasound causing problems with whale's health as they have done to humans living near the turbines.

Coincidentally since the construction of ocean wind turbines in 2015, the number of unexplained whale deaths has increased in the North Atlantic. One major coincidence is the increase in numbers of ocean wind turbines and megawatt high voltage power lines in the path of migrating whales.

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