Antisemitic Wind Turbines
Wired has an article on a proposed windfarm for some town in upstate NY. The usual not-in-my-backyard arguments are asserted with regard to aesthetics and property values. But here are some new arguments against it that you might not have heard before:
Group members also warned of health problems ranging from strokes caused by the sunlight as it pulsates through the spinning turbine blades to mange in cattle. Others claimed that women living near the wind farms are having as many as five menstrual cycles a month.
…one speaker compared the sound of the spinning blades and whirring machinery (which most people find inaudible from fairly close distances) to the noises Nazi troops tortured Jews with during the holocaust.
danger Said,
January 19, 2006 @ 9:41 am
I wonder if the folks in Nantucket would be interested in using those excuses to keep putting off the wind power initiative there. The best one I heard from them is that wind turbines are going to kill all the sea-birds.
But on an island where a one bedroom shanty goes for half a million ducats, the NIMBY argument requires some serious financially-motivated creativity.
Boxen Said,
January 19, 2006 @ 10:22 am
As someone who lives downwind of a coal-fired power plant, I say, “suck it up bitches.” The sooner the windfarms go up, the sooner I’ll stop having to inhale carcinogens and particulate matter.