Aberdeen News – The wreckage was found Monday at the South Dakota Wind Energy Center, a site about 10 miles south of Highmore off of state Highway 47, and a few miles west on 207th Street. The wind center has 27 turbines that are about 213 feet tall, plus the length of the blade.
The greenies have upped the ante from bird blenders, to people choppers.
We still get no power though. Just endless fields of falling towers.
The putrefying bodies of birds.
Every one of those friggin monstrous eyesores should be demolished.
If it would save one life…. Oh wait. Too late.
Still Ont keeps OKing wind factories directly next to airports, like Kincardine, and several others. The turbines at Chatham Kent ordered removed by Transport Canada remain standing. It is like the wind companies, so used to getting their way from Liberal politicians, think they are above all zoning and planning regulations.
Four fatalities in this tragedy. That makes it four more people than were killed because of TMI and four more people killed than were killed by radiation exposure from Fukushima.
four more people than were killed because of TMI and four more people killed than were killed by radiation exposure from Fukushima.
Good point
They are. McGuinty’s green energy act releases them from all enviro regs and planning approval.
These stupid monstrosities are killing more than just eagles and bats:
http://www.startribune.com/local/28585269.html
As well they are able to disregard spring half load regulations on concession roads because they have signed side bar agreements with municipal councils. Who represents the ratepayers when huge equipment tears the hell out of their roadways?
No longtime resident constructor could ever get away with this, but a foreign outfit like Samsung, has municipal councils bending over for them. In Ont wind companies are a law to themselves.
Condolences to the families of the pilot and PAX. But fly into IMC below 500 ft agl and that’s what’s likely to happen. It would have been a hill/tree/whatever even without the windmill. Not that the windmills aren’t an evil scam, just not especially to blame here – it was just the first thing they hit. Sad.
On September 7, 1977, a private aircraft dropped altitude to 500 feet (150 m) in dense fog and struck CKVR’s 1,000-foot (300 m) transmitter tower, killing all five people aboard the plane
The older the windmills get the more lives they will take.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/8948363/1500-accidents-and-incidents-on-UK-wind-farms.html
Gareth, read the topo map here
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/south_dakota/txu-pclmaps-topo-sd-aberdeen-1893.jpg
That region of South Dakota is as flat as beer on a plate and is a plains state. No doubt the pilot had flown at this low an altitude before in perfect safety as there are no hills or trees. He may have been flying low to stay in a warm air layer to avoid icing; many of the little single engined aircraft have no de-ice boots and have to avoid flying in freezing cold moist air.
Larger aircraft will have a Terrain Avoidance Warning System (TAWS) or Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System (EGPWS) that matches your GPS computed location and direction with the terrain. The database is updated monthly to include every new wind turbine, power line, tower crane and skyscraper.