[Cvengr]

The latter is an "up and coming" area that has turbine blades the length of a football field, Garfield said. She believes that new technology and slower-turning turbines that pose less danger to birds could help California catch up with Texas.

IMHO, this is design performed by somebody wearing a black beret and reads Architectural Digest. Building a cantilevered beam the length of a football field and installing it on a pole in a rotating machine has to be one of the nuttiest ideas I've ever heard.

[saganite]

There's a new design that's supposed to be more efficient and environmentally friendly (no dead birds). It's a vertical wind turbine. There was some info last year about it but nothing recently.

[Koblenz]

IMHO, this is design performed by somebody wearing a black beret and reads Architectural Digest. Building a cantilevered beam the length of a football field and installing it on a pole in a rotating machine has to be one of the nuttiest ideas I've ever heard.

Well, I guess if it works, and is in the middle of the desert or some other unpopulated area, it isn't so nutty... Is there any record of these turbines not working or falling off their pole in heavy winds?