http://www.windaction.org/ facts, analysis, exposure of wind energy's real impacts en-us Windaction hourly 1 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.windaction.org/articles/35777 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:19:22 GMT Photographer Phillip Colla captured significant information including scale and scope of the Ocotillo wind project. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35777 http://www.windaction.org/articles/35525 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:35:35 GMT All of the turbines shown in image were erected since 2010-2011. http://www.windaction.org/articles/35525 http://www.windaction.org/articles/33790 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:03:18 GMT This composite image shows the relative size of the older turbines at the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area and those replacing them. The smaller turbines are the Windmatic 65 kilowatt machines that stand 84 feet tall on four-leg lattice towers. The blade length is 7 meters. The larger towers are Mitsubishi 1 megawatt turbines installed in the Buena vista section of Altamont with blade lengths of 31 meters. http://www.windaction.org/articles/33790 http://www.windaction.org/articles/30815 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:53:57 GMT On January 10, 2011, at 10:57 PST, a Rockwell International S-2R, impacted a meteorological tower (met tower) during an aerial application on Webb Tract Island, Oakley, California. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the pilot was killed. The met tower was erected for the purposes of planning a wind energy facility. http://www.windaction.org/articles/30815 http://www.windaction.org/articles/27804 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:04:39 GMT William St. Clair, a General Engineering contractor in California, identified a structural failure on a set of welds in ReDriven's 18 meter tower. The tear was expanding, and the tower section above the tear was off center and shifted. http://www.windaction.org/articles/27804 http://www.windaction.org/articles/25652 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:48:38 GMT The blades from the 25 turbines at the Kumeyaay Wind project at the Campo Indian Reservation were removed after a storm on December 7, 2009 brought winds that topped 70 mph, causing extensive damage. http://www.windaction.org/articles/25652 http://www.windaction.org/articles/26385 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT The facility consists of 3,218 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 615 MW (megawatt). This view shows the wind towers from Interstate 10 in California. http://www.windaction.org/articles/26385 http://www.windaction.org/articles/26386 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT The facility consists of 3,218 wind turbines with an installed capacity of 615 MW (megawatt). http://www.windaction.org/articles/26386 http://www.windaction.org/articles/18606 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:56:37 GMT More than 100 broken windmills dot the landscape in California near Palm Springs as does the growing litter of broken blades. Evidence of leaking fluids, a trash pile of wasted parts, and broken turbines. http://www.windaction.org/articles/18606 http://www.windaction.org/articles/14602 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:18:34 GMT A large power-generating windmill caught fire early Monday (Mar, 10, 2008) near the Solano County Community of Birds Landing. Firefighthers let the huge structure burn itself out. (URL: http://www.kcra.com/news/15553196/detail.html#) http://www.windaction.org/articles/14602 http://www.windaction.org/articles/14600 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:41:27 GMT A large power-generating windmill caught fire early Monday (Mar, 10, 2008) near the Solano County Community of Birds Landing. Firefighthers let the huge structure burn itself out. (URL: http://www.kcra.com/news/15553196/detail.html#) http://www.windaction.org/articles/14600 http://www.windaction.org/articles/13803 Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:45:54 GMT Contra Costa Times image of Altamont turbines with a raptor. http://www.windaction.org/articles/13803 http://www.windaction.org/articles/12515 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://www.windaction.org/articles/12515 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9666 Sun, 20 May 2007 11:58:53 GMT The Riverside County Planning Commission approved plans to add 40 wind turbines off Indian Avenue adjacent to Desert Hot Springs. PPM Energy's project is known as the Dillon Wind Project. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9666 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9566 Mon, 14 May 2007 11:58:57 GMT Protesters stand along Indian Avenue in North Palm Springs on Sunday to oppose the future construction of windmills. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9566 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9378 Sun, 06 May 2007 11:08:07 GMT A flock of sheep treks beneath a wind turbine in the Montezuma Hills. The approximately 700 turbines, each with three blades atop 400-foot towers, whirl amid the Delta breezes. Thus, a couple thousand blades lumbering through circles of air 200 feet in diameter, are hard to miss. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9378 http://www.windaction.org/articles/9326 Fri, 04 May 2007 10:44:59 GMT The wind farm at Altamont Pass, California, has more than 5,000 power-generating towers. http://www.windaction.org/articles/9326 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8748 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:36:02 GMT Frank Banks, a long time West Garnet resident http://www.windaction.org/articles/8748 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:57:42 GMT Joyce Manley, who lives in the Painted Hills neighborhood near Desert Hot Springs, Calif., has been fighting nearby wind turbine projects for six years. ‘It’s like having a disco going all night long,’ she says. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8741 http://www.windaction.org/articles/8209 Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:54:22 GMT Some environmentalists oppose wind farms, such as this one in the Mojave Desert in California, because they consider the projects to be eyesores planted on near-pristine landscapes. http://www.windaction.org/articles/8209