{"id":2138,"date":"2013-08-04T19:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/beta\/?p=2138"},"modified":"2013-08-26T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:59:20","slug":"ba-117-aerogeneradores-beneficios-y-cambiar-de-mirada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ploff.net\/en\/ba-117-aerogeneradores-beneficios-y-cambiar-de-mirada\/","title":{"rendered":"BA 117 – Wind Energy: benefits and a view change."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wind energy: benefits and a view change<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Today, I simply want to share with you something lovely that happened to me. An excellent memory, an anecdote, on step further\u2026 Sometimes, when you look back, life seems to be a simple concatenation of events that take you right the spot in which you are in at right now. It looks like if everything took you<\/i> to the experience you are living right now, the circumstance you need to undertake, the people you talk to.<\/p>\n

In that turmoil –living<\/i>– I met Lula and Jor, two friends who look like a geyser of art and audiovisual productions. I am filming the Ecocube<\/span><\/b> with them, a section of \u201cThe Magic Cube\u201d which is emitted by LU 89 TV Channel 3, from La Pampa province, with the objective of bringing awareness to kids from 8 to 16 years old, on the environmental issues regarding our daily living (we will share with you these chapters in any moment, we are waiting until they are in the air here in Santa Rosa, in order to upload it to Youtube and share it with you).<\/p>\n

Yesterday, shot a chapter on wind energy<\/span>, and when I spoke about it with Lula and Jor, they took me directly to shoot beneath a huge wind energy generator in General Acha (a nearby town). I have always read about the great big wind generators, who hug the wind, asking Nature for a little bit of her energy for our usage, , but I have never seen one, I was never able to hug one of them, and thank him the same way I thank a tree for its ecosystemic services.<\/p>\n

When we got there, we walked a couple of kilometres through a dirt road, with a sky covered by clouds, and a strong<\/b>, constant<\/b> and unidirectional<\/b> wind was blowing (3 characteristics that make our Patagonian winds one of the best worldwide for wind energy generation) while in the horizon, two wind energy generators were standing, baptized as \u201cThe Pampero\u201d and \u201cThe Hurricane\u201d,\u00a0 one staring west, and the other one south.<\/p>\n

They were obvious\u2026 like statues in the middle of the flatlands\u2026 moving serenely, no one hurries them, but they are invoking many strong things, a new way of life, the first human sculptures which will say: this is how the human being started changing its vision.<\/i><\/p>\n

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It has been said that the wind turbines produce visual contamination as well as a lot of noise. That they disrupt the landscape. But, instead of destroying the landscape from its vowels (extracting minerals and fossil fuels from the Earth), \u00a0isn\u2019t it better to have those symbols of change standing there, as a reminder, as a piece of evidence proving that our energy demand must be quenched with clean, renewable energy?<\/i><\/p>\n

It is true that a subtle buzz exists when they turn, but in reality, it is a very subtle sound. At 300 meters from it, the turbines make a noise of only 40 dB\u2019s, which is less than the environmental sound:<\/p>\n