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This is a 500 Foot Wind Turbine

April 8, 2013 by Paul Crowe

500 foot wind turbine in Wisconsin

Sometimes, only a photo will do. The wind turbine shown here is 500 feet tall installed on a farm in Wisconsin and just like the ones proposed for North East township. Most of us are familiar with the size of a farm silo so this photo may begin to give you a sense of what […]

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What is the Proposed North East PA Wind Turbine Project?

April 7, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Your North East Township planning board and township supervisors are currently considering regulations affecting the placement of 500 foot tall, utility scale wind turbines in the township. The exact number of turbines that will be constructed if this project proceeds has not been determined, but estimates by the people involved range from 50 to 75. […]

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How Big are Wind Turbines?

April 6, 2013 by Paul Crowe

Size comparison of a Boeing 747 and a 410 foot wind turbine, which is approximately 90 feet shorter than the turbines proposed for North East.approximately 90 feet shorter than the turbines proposed in North East.

Most of us are not personally familiar with utility scale wind turbines, the sort of turbine being proposed for North East. Over the last several years, turbines have grown in height and rotor diameter and these turbines now have an overall height, from the base of the tower to the tip of the blade at […]

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North East Pennsylvania Wind Turbines

April 5, 2013 by Paul Crowe

If you’re interested in the wind turbine project currently being proposed for North East Township, Pennsylvania, especially if you’re wondering about the effects of having such a large number of 500 foot tall wind turbines so close to our homes and community, this is the place to find out more. Our purpose is to provide […]

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Unfortunately

The less you know about wind energy,
the more you'll like it.

Why wind developers never understand …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

~ Upton Sinclair

Don’t know – Don’t care

Is willful ignorance necessary
to promote wind energy?

No, but it helps.

Climate Change

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. … Also, if the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental results can be made to look like the expected consequences.

~ Richard Feynman, 1964

It’s not on-demand, it’s no-demand

Wind energy is "no-demand" electricity. If the wind isn't blowing and you demand electricity, the answer is no.

Wind – expensive, inefficient, unreliable



December 1923 Popular Science cover dreaming about generating electricity from windmills, and though the dream never dies, the dream doesn't work, didn't then, doesn't now and without huge government giveaways of your money, no wind farms would get built anywhere. The government forces utilities to buy wind power so payments to landowners are simply wind welfare.


Wind energy runs on tax credits

"I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate, for example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
~ Warren Buffett - from interview with Fortune magazine

Wind investments and high cost green energy

“I’m in the wind business … I’ve lost my ass in the business. ... Hey, we can get on everything green. We can get on everything renewable. Then the cost of power will go up ten times."
~ T. Boone Pickens - on Morning Joe on MSNBC

Wind Turbine Map

Information you'll only see here.

The complete map of all of the wind turbines proposed by Pioneer Green Energy in Erie County, PA and filed with the FAA. Plans not yet filed are not shown.

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