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Jul 26Liked by epimetheus

There is another serious health factor with wind farms and that is the noise and vibrations that cause havoc for those unfortunate to live near them. I've been following the "Diary of A Wind Farm Neighbour" on Facebook, which documents the troubles that a family in Australia has been having since a wind farm was built nearby their home: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100076188588061

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I'm aware of this, and the above piece was intended to highlight yet another (sigh) aspect of how these things are bad for us.

Thank you for the link; it's a terrifying read, but since we're here at this juncture, there's no turning away.

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Jul 27Liked by epimetheus

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2024/07/26/wind-farm-offshore-quinault-hoh-tribe

Then there's the legal discourse and related costs.

BTW - grid is more dysfunctional every day. Fiddling while Rome burns, as the saying goes.

Notice no engineers involved. Almost as if the lies are of greater value than, science, facts and evidenced performance. WTF

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Exactly, it's everywhere, it's happening virtually at the same time, and it amounts to some weird circus acrobatics without net or any other safety features.

WTF, indeed.

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Jul 27·edited Jul 27Liked by epimetheus

Initially, Silicosis wasn't recognised among miners; instead, it was blamed on all sorts of things /except/ the work and the conditions in the mines (many of them state or corporate/state-owned here).

The not-said-out-loud-reason was, it would make the state (rather, the Crown) and its capitalist allies culpable for causing the deaths and disabilities so common to miners even in the 1970s.

I'm biased though. My paternal grandfather died from it. But as Silicosis "didn't count" as a work-related health-hazard, there's was no compensation or anything, not even acknowledgement of the fact that breathing in pulverised stone 1 500 meters below ground harmed the lungs.

Then again, they used to isnulate subway-cars and railroad-ditto with asbestos, not that long ago. Imagine that, sheets of asbestos jostling around - even if just a little - in the roof of the car, while people commute daily to and from work.

That the chinese owned windmills put up by grifting capitalist profiteers are dangerous comes as no surprise at all - only when the capitalist risks his own neck, literally, does he care about health, safety and environment.

Which suggests how laws ought to be fashioned.

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I'm sorry to read about your 'bias' (late grandfather).

As to how our system of order 'works', well, that one thing (Occam's Razor pretty much every time explains this correctly). I'd only add that the Chinese manufacturers are playing that same game: it's not their people who will be dying of/with these shoddy products.

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Jul 27Liked by epimetheus

A EYE needs more POWER than a small country to surveillance us ... At our expense the ABUSERS have created these scams to boost the terminations while they work their way through the human race with organised crime.

Assist the resist, you will know what to do when the time comes.

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Yes... We have these concerns with the turbine developments in wales....also the substations and powerlines that come from the turbines..... There is a windfarm near me that was build and never produced any electricity. They are now building another one on the next hill. Its total madness.

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I’m sorry to hear this, yet it’s literally the same everywhere.

Here in Norway, the current push is giant offshore windfarms…

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WOW.

Thank you for this information!

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I wish I didn’t learn about it.

It’s yet one more thing ‘they’ are throwing ‘our’ way.

Sigh.

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