Letter to the editor: Windmill questions need answers — and evidence
To the editor:
Jim Munn has, in a manner of speaking, publicly answered my letters concerning the possible erection of a windmill in town with some reassurance that they will be no problem. (Times, Tuesday, June 30).
I may be being paranoid; he did not mention my name as the author of the letters to which he referred. But hey, that's just me being me. Maybe.
Anyway ...
No noise; no Cuisinart effect on our seagull population; no detritus — animal, vegetable or mineral — falling from the skies.
How does he know?
"I once asked a Dutch guy if windmills make a lot of noise.
"Here was his answer: 'No.'"
Color me relieved, then.
If you are among those stubborn few who remain unconvinced — which could only result from a NIMBY attitude, Mr. Munn not-so-subtly suggests, one based on a dislike for the way these towering things look in our midst — then there's this, too, he tells us:
"We have the sun; we have the ocean; and we have the wind."
Oh, and although it didn't make his list, we also have "common sense".
That makes us want to see the engineering studies, the science, the evidence that windmills might, indeed, be good for us. Maybe we could even get something more than an indirect, monosyllabic response from the knowledgeable Dutch guy.
It's worth looking into. That's all I'm saying.
Ed McCabe
Gloucester
