Land based wind turbines on Samso
ttierney August 4th, 2009
Tom:
Dale and I rode our bikes around the largest land-based wind turbine installation early one morning. It was quite windy, and the noise of the turbines was difficult to distinguish from the wind itself. One of the aesthetic problems associated with the land-based turbines is the strobe-like shadow they cast. In the following video, Dale pans from a pig-raising facility, which was abandoned after the closing of the island’s slaughterhouse, to the nearby turbine installation. In the video, you can see the shadow of the turbines on the trees. Turbines are placed to avoid casting such shadows on residential buildings. Each of the turbines in this video is located on a separate farm, and is owned by an individual farmer. Other turbines are owned by groups of individuals.