Comments on: Optiwind Accelerating Wind Turbine Taps New Energy Fields

By: Get Real

Get Real — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:27:20 +0000

What on earth is this thing?

I think we in the wind energy business should make sure that eyesores like this never get built. It gives the whole industry a bad rep.

No wonder the neighbors are opposed. I love windmills, but would never let them build this near me.

Time for whoever designed this to get real.

By: Pan_theFrog

Pan_theFrog — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:11:00 +0000

So the reason that Goshen, CT would allow them to build was (1) No one had ever built one before (2) people thought it was ugly and (3) it might lower there property values in some way.

Using this sytem of thought, we can’t ever invent something new, and a lot of the stuff that is old, lowers property values and/or is ugly.

By: Not So Fast

Not So Fast — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:03:35 +0000

I think you may want to know that Optiwind tried to get one of these windmills (Its first one) built in Goshen, CT.

They put the residents through six months of agony before the Planning and Zoning Board declined to give them a construction permit. Voting 5 to 0 to deny their application.

The reason given for the denile was that the design was judged to adversly impact the value of property values and, because none of these has ever been built, it was felt there was no way to assess its impact on the environment.

Overall the residents thought that this design was inappropriate to their neighborhood, and thought it was extremely ugly and would spoil the viewscape.

Thought you should be aware of this before you get involved with these guys.

By: agent_phosgene

agent_phosgene — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:40:25 +0000

Can it be combined with another NIMBY such as a cell phone tower? Then there would be one tower not two.