Windturbines: the whole truth.
XI1. The consequences of this deceit in relation to windturbines.
Without running the risk of spreading unnecessary alarm on the future of our world, one can state that within the next few decades there will be global problems due to the strong increase of the demand for energy and energy sources. We will have to anticipate these essentially technical problems in a realistic and technical way. Not by boosting fantasy stories by charlatans who only opportunistically serve their own interests.
Also government agencies, unfortunately often devoid of the necessary technical knowledge, consider it wise to make an apparently bold decision by establishing the obligation to put their foolish recommendations into practice. And make promises on results which they have no way of proving. A hard-headed costs and profits analysis that takes into account all aspects of the whole operation remains in abeyance. And so it happens that the whole wind turbine drama does not take into account the enormous visual, emotional and financial harm caused to the landscape and the quality of life. windturbines are simply forced upon the inhabitants of various regions with misleading arguments. So-called "informative meetings" are a farce. On top of that, the so-called "specialists" do not normally know much about the properties of windturbines themselves. And besides, the decision on placing windturbines has usually already been made by then. One can ask the State Council for a blocking sentence, but that will never be based on the technical bad properties of such a wind farm. Those gentlemen have no knowledge on these matters either. They merely consider whether the procedure has been properly followed. They do not know or care about the fact that the yield of the average wind turbine in the Netherlands in 2006 was no more that a thirteen millionth part of our Dutch consumption.
This is how a great part of the Dutch population is driven to rage and despair and many others who do not reflect are made to think that we are heading in the right direction by building windturbines. In the mean time, there is not one industry or other institution involved in energy questions that does not already take most useful measures in order to consume less energy (and certainly not only less electricity!). The information on the successes they have achieved will never contain such misleading statements as the ones employed by the people and agencies mentioned in the previous chapters. The deceit of the public on windturbines is therefore an insult to the many others that, with ingenious means and much inventiveness, also work on the energy problem, often with considerable success.
It is striking that in the parliament there is never the necessary insistence for a pressing request to the ministers concerned to tell the whole truth about the application of windturbines for once and for all. Including all the relevant numbers and amounts. This is indeed amazing as I have observed, in personal conversations with several Members of Parliament from left wing as well as right wing parties, that they have the same objections as I against the misleading information on the usefulness of windturbines. The way our democracy works, it seems to be impossible for our representatives to make their voice heard in such a debate where hundreds of million euros are concerned. That is sad. Those hundreds of millions have to be paid by the Dutch citizens. They would be better spent on other useful things for the Netherlands. Still, it is our Parliament's duty, in case of such an evident waste of money, to ask concrete questions, based on full knowledge of the facts, and not allow themselves to be put off with fair words.
I hope that the above argumentation will contribute to greater knowledge on the main issues related to wind energy and that people will not be intimidated anymore by the biased stories of the propagandists of wind energy.
J.A.Halkema MSEE, January 2008.
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