Wind Turbine ********. Just opened the mail and seen the plan for three massive units

[MossRoad]

We stood out in the middle of a 400+ unit wind farm and all we heard was the wind. They didn't make any discernible noise. They do look like something out of a science fiction movie and make the landscape look more like Mars than Indiana. I'd be highly disappointed if they popped up within my view. At night, all 400 blink red off and on at the exact same time. Its freaky. I've seen videos of the shadow flicker making some homes unlivable. Bad juju.

 

[Sodo]

Its because some people "need" the power more than other people "need" the view.

 

[gwstang]

Haven't heard of any wind turbines installed down here in the deep south...but if they really want to use some hot air to generate some turbines....just set them up at our state capital when the legislature is in session...lol. :confused2: They will get all the wind they need to feed the entire electrical demands of the state of Alabama!!!! :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Its because some people "need" the power more than other people "need" the view.

Its because people are afraid of nuclear power.

 

[CalG]

Don't worry, It's only a passing fad

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...nd_farm_3.jpg/350px-Tehachapi_wind_farm_3.jpg

In a few generations, global worming will have changed the wind patterns, and technology will have made such crude "mechanical contrivances" obsolete.

Time is a matter of perspective.

 

[CalG]

On a less flippant note...

While crossing north western South Dakota a few years back, I came to a spot with a grouping of wind turbines. The air was quite still, and none of the machines were turning. I thought it odd and wondered, so stopped, getting out of the car to better experience the calm.

Just then a breeze picked up and one of the machines blades started to move, just perceptibly. So slow as to be unnoticed if one were not caring.
Slowly, over some minutes, that first machine made one painfully slow revolution of it's blades. Soon, some of the other machines trembled into motion. Almost as if life was being blown into them.

In a span of time of about 15 minutes, the group of six or seven machines that I could see from my location all started, one by one, and were running slowly round and round in the breeze. I was at the front of the group (indecision to stop carried me beyond?) There was little sound but that of the wind on the rolling hills.
Quite a treat actually.

I wouldn't want to live under one though. We have several on nearby ridges. I don't think they harm the view at all. Birds? I don't know, I'll need to go have a look some summer day when I need a motorbike ride destination.

 

[CalG]

Its because people are afraid of nuclear power.

I know which one I would rather be around when things go south...
Fukushima anyone?

Sensational FUKUSHIMA UPDATE | Nuclear News from Japan
And let's not go to Chernobyl

I'm so glad they have shut down Vermont Yankee NGS at the end of it's design life.
Perhaps a new one could be built with a better solution to the waste. At present, we have about 6000+ years of job security in the wet and dry storage.

 

[texasjohn]

I like lights, AC, heat, power tools, water pressure, refrigerators, washing machines, computers......so, call me progressive
When the power goes out, life gets hard, very fast.

You can't use the view .... unless you own it, unless the owner leaves it alone.
People been messing up the view ever since Daniel Boone complained and moved away from his neighbor's smoke.
I like hydro power...but we're having droughts and rivers are mostly damned already.
Coal and other carbon fuels have various forms of pollution with different impacts when extracted and burned, generally not good
Solar is great, but sometimes the sun doesn't shine.
Wind is fine, when it blows. Unless very close to a turbine, I don't hear it or see flicker.
Geothermal is wonderful, but thermal sources are sparse.
Nuclear is deadly now and forever.

I'd take a wind turbine on my ranch, but wind is insufficient here.

 

[4570Man]

I have seen the huge ones out west, and I think they are cool. I probably still wouldn't want to live beside them. I didn't realize the size of them until a saw a semi trailer with a single blade on it.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Ya the Liberals LOVE "clean energy"