Comments on: Yale’s stake in sustainable wind development http://yaleherald.com/opinion/yale%e2%80%99s-stake-in-sustainable-wind-development/ Yale's most daring publication since 1987 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:36:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Ward http://yaleherald.com/opinion/yale%e2%80%99s-stake-in-sustainable-wind-development/comment-page-1/#comment-7807 John Ward Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:57:05 +0000 http://yaleherald.com/?p=1970#comment-7807 Absolutely accurate. And what's more disturbing is the way rural people are being steamrolled with incentives by large energy companies, for the profit of energy companies , and to feed the appetites of urban centers. It's an atrocity and a sad testament to the power of politics and profit. Absolutely accurate. And what’s more disturbing is the way rural people are being steamrolled with incentives by large energy companies, for the profit of energy companies , and to feed the appetites of urban centers. It’s an atrocity and a sad testament to the power of politics and profit.

]]> By: greg ullstrom http://yaleherald.com/opinion/yale%e2%80%99s-stake-in-sustainable-wind-development/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 greg ullstrom Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:19:47 +0000 http://yaleherald.com/?p=1970#comment-1392 Please visit the web site Stopillwind.org You'll see that industrial wind is not as "green" as touted. Please read the conversation with Jon Boone. We have tried to contact Jonathan Macey and other members of the Yale Endowment ethics committee. No one has responded. Yale's involvment in this project should be thoroughly aired. Thank you. Please visit the web site Stopillwind.org
You’ll see that industrial wind is not as “green” as touted. Please read the conversation with Jon Boone.
We have tried to contact Jonathan Macey and other members of the Yale Endowment ethics committee. No one has responded. Yale’s involvment in this project should be thoroughly aired.
Thank you.

]]> By: Justin Turco http://yaleherald.com/opinion/yale%e2%80%99s-stake-in-sustainable-wind-development/comment-page-1/#comment-1208 Justin Turco Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:18:50 +0000 http://yaleherald.com/?p=1970#comment-1208 Hi, I'm not trying to be critical, but the diagram of the wind turbines at the top of this piece should be changed slightly. The mountains in the background need to have flat tops, with huge roads to get the cranes and towers up to the blast site. The wind turbines need to be located up there, and from a size standpoint, they need to be about 20% as tall as the mountain itself. A transmission line needs to come down off the mountains and a substation should be drawn in at the base of the ridge. Then you need to draw my town at the base of those mountains and a picture of me with my eyes tightly shut and tears running down my face while plugging my ears from the constant noise that bombards my family every time the wind actually blows. Somewhere out of sight, keep in mind, a coal or nuclear plant is humming away, because the grid manager didn't dare shut it down for fear the wind would stop blowing. But, if not wind than what? Solar is easier to work with than wind and doesn't destroy the earth to save it. We have some good options. Please Yale, "pull the plug" on destroying our town. Respectfully, Justin Turco Ira, Vermont Hi, I’m not trying to be critical, but the diagram of the wind turbines at the top of this piece should be changed slightly. The mountains in the background need to have flat tops, with huge roads to get the cranes and towers up to the blast site. The wind turbines need to be located up there, and from a size standpoint, they need to be about 20% as tall as the mountain itself. A transmission line needs to come down off the mountains and a substation should be drawn in at the base of the ridge. Then you need to draw my town at the base of those mountains and a picture of me with my eyes tightly shut and tears running down my face while plugging my ears from the constant noise that bombards my family every time the wind actually blows.

Somewhere out of sight, keep in mind, a coal or nuclear plant is humming away, because the grid manager didn’t dare shut it down for fear the wind would stop blowing. But, if not wind than what? Solar is easier to work with than wind and doesn’t destroy the earth to save it. We have some good options.

Please Yale, “pull the plug” on destroying our town.

Respectfully,
Justin Turco
Ira, Vermont

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