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Uploaded by on Feb 12, 2009

WALLACEBURG — Bill Fish wants the Municipality of Chatham-Kent to investigate homemade windmills after his neighbours device came crashing through his roof during yesterdays high winds.

He was shocked awake around 3 a.m. when an eight-foot-long wooden blade penetrated the roof, before piercing through the ceiling and wall in a sewing room of his Dufferin Avenue home, located outside of Wallaceburg in Chatham Township.

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  • Yeah, it happened early Thursday morning, about 3 a.m. Feb. 12

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  • Anyone who is for industrial turbine complexes need to do the research on all the problems they cause. They are NOT GREEN because they are constructed of metals, fibreglass, hydraulic oil and tonnes and tonnes fo concrete (world's worst pollutant) and they destroy the environment not to mention flora, fauna and people. Go to a complex and stay for about a week. I wonder if you will be for them then sirtom66.

  • I am all for wind turbines, but I have to agree. Even homemade turbines of a certain size should be required to have strict standards pertaining to stress points on the machine. In really close quarters a VAWT configuration makes much more scene and not at a huge loss in performance as claimed . I would rather have 5 nicely built sexy VAWT"s than one HAWT that may hurt, mame or kill my neighbor. Geting hit by a fast spinning HAWT would be akin to jumping into a helicopter rotor.

  • Hey, it is not always easy to be "green". You can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs.

  • Big deal, my neighbor's shed blasted through my fence and ended up against my house in the last windstorm.

  • @toob247 not so true ,have seen winds at 70+pmh here on the windmills,thats on the 1/4 thick pvc pipe.Some of these windmills 5 foot across with 8 blades.I'm testing some blades that are not so thick with 16 blades to see if they hold up to the winter winds here

  • @losttreasurehunt i heard they break apart fast

  • Use PVC blades

  • Hi!

    I'm a VAWT!

  • Idiot C-K Council wouldn't put proper restrictions or due diligence on this, even though it was brought up forcefully  If someone gets killed or injured, I put it on their shoulders.

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