Wind Turbine Base Jumping--INSANE!

T. Boone Pickens would have a field day with these wild-wind-turbine-base-jumping bandits. This video is insane! And according to General Electric's Wind Turbine Product Directory, wind turbines can run from 60 to 100 meters tall with blades running from 30 to 50 meters in length. That's no free fall so--PLEASE, I beg you--do not try this at your local wind farm.

Many thanks to Ecorazzi creator and co-founder Michael d'Estries for posting this YouTube video on GroovyGreen an online magazine devoted to renewable energy and sustainable living.

For more on renewable energy and wind power . . .
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:: Texas Approves Big Plan To Transmit Wind Power

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Comments

[JBS]

Used to have an old First Sergeant who told us there was lots of things fell out of the sky, but the only ones you had to worry 'bout was birdsh*t and damn fools.

[barkingcat]

Olivia...don't you mean BASE jumping (the acronym, for Building/S­pan/Antenn­a/Earth) and not base jumping?

[enilorac]

Olivia:
Wish these wind turbine jump guys had a message about how these immense machines are being sited all over the country without any siting guidelines from State governments. New York State has no guidelines and wind turbine facilities ( they are industrial plants/parks) and cropping up in the most beautiful parts of the state, where local land owners have sold to often international corporations who don't give a damn about the State, the locals, the environmental impacts and the effects of these monster machines on historic vistas, buildings, State and local parks and so on.
They are the oil rigs, oil pump devices of our time.
They are there so people can consume more and more electricity and electrically devised CRAPOLA.
Yes, we do need wind farms, as an alternative to dirtier fuels.
But more than anything else we need WIND FARM SITE - ing REGULATION­S!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!­!!!
The whole State of New York is up for grabs. The Preservation League of New York State is working on getting legislation passed for guidelines.
And locals have no say in the matter, unless they go through a thousand hoops to fight back with endless costly legal battles, not necessarily winable.
The entire Glimmerglass area is up for grabs, for example.
The Last of the Mohicans was written up there, incidentally. An entire area of the Finger Lake region has been ruined by a wind power industrial plant.

[mainmonkey]

Please get some perspective. The serious threat we are facing is global warming: we are talking about massive species extinctions and global starvation on a massive scale. Take your head out of your ass and look at the big picture. You are worried about 'vistas' ?

[sb250guy]

Hey, I'm not entirely unsympathetic but there is a very big picture to look at. I know that many people (who are also very green-minded) are concerned with the aesthetic qualities of wind turbines. However, in the last two hundred years or so, we humans in the industrial era have put up with a lot of ugly monstrosities in the name of progress. I do believe that those now living may be the last people to view wind turbines in any such negative way. I think future generations will simply accept them as part of our landscape. In an ideal world, we could avoid any conflicts of interest and preserve vistas and whatnot. BUT, there is no ideal world. What there is is a world with 7 billion people with dwindling (and dirty) existing energy supplies. I'm sorry but I'll take wind turbines any day.

[enilorac]

I did not say wind energy is bad. It just needs to be regulated, so anyone's back yard is not prey to always outside investors, all out to make big bucks. Follow the money in your State and you will find out a lot about who is profiting from the insertion of these wind farms into locales, where locals typically have NO say in the matter.
All States need siting guidelines based on maps of State and National and Local historic Register parks and sites etc, and don't forget the impact industrial parks have on tourism and the revenues it brings in to locales.
Take a turbine tour, take many. Then form an informed opinion that is not just knew jerk Green ( pardon the expression).
Also, some are beautifully designed machines, super duper gorgeous, others not so good looking at all.
It's all about planning, just as preventing sprawl is all about planning. And by planning I mean Planning and Preservation through a well thought out citizen based regulatory process. Did you know many of the wind investors coming in to the NorthEast are through overseas companies. The investor group trying to bring a wind industrial park into the Glimmerglass area of New York State is from Spain!!! And we know what happened to the Costa Brava. It got ruined in past 40 years by uncontrolled sprawl. Sorry to sound xenophobic, but I love my State. Bring in wind power, but with Rationality and due process.

[leduck]

read up about Peak Oil
try "Hubbert's Peak"
from kenneth deffeyes

then you wont think those things are quit so ugly

[mainmonkey]

EXACTLY!
http://www.theoildrum.com

[bac]

Cool!

[JoePalooka]

We've got those monstrous wind tubine farms in upstate New York. They really, really uglify the countryside.

[mainmonkey]

You wanna see something really, really, REALLY ugly? How about millions of people starving from global climate change?

Try to get some perspective, please.