All the usual blather about "protecting the environment" and "renewable energy"-- then some spoilsport pointed out that for one-fifth of the money, they could generate the same amount of power with a conventional plant.
And not be subject to the vagarities of the wind...
Don't know what ever became of it- one could hope common sense prevailed, and they spent their money on 5 conventional plants...
No thank you. I'm not going to besmirch an 18th century house with one of these. I can't imagine anyone else looking at it and not thinking it would be an eyesore.
Regards, Ivan
The turbines are so large they show up well on Google Maps.
The color of the paint on the neighbors' house is visually overpowering. We need to force them to change it. I don't like the color of their car, either. Those colors are lowering the value of my place. The color of paint is actually regulated in some HOAs and counties. One HOA that I know of does not allow white or other reflective paint jobs (only nature colors allowed--dark brown, for example).
[Little sarcasm and irony there.]
Are PV panels any prettier? Some people are off of the power grid and in windy places. Others are off of the power grid in sunny places. Some people have much wind and sun. Busybodies who claim to be environmentalists are trying to stop people in places off of the grid from generating their own power. The false enviornmentalist busybodies are doing so for the purpose of devaluing and buying the properties of others cheap to make way for their big developer friends.
If you want to regulate all of the scenery around you, buy property all the way to the horizon, IMO. If you don't own it, don't try to control it.
Royalties paid to ranchers in the Abilene area average about $12,000 per turbine per year, according to testimony in a lawsuit there.
In my current financial position, I’d welcome a dozen of them.
NIMBY. Nobody wants energy generation, but everybody wants the lights to come on when you flip the switch. We should be building nuke plants, and be done with it.
what about the economics of these things?
how much natural gas, is not burnt?
I kind of enjoy the break in monotany the ones out in West Texas, off I-10, provide. You can see them for miles and there are very few people for them to bother.
They sell wind power kits for home use. They are much smaller than these mentioned.
They also generate revenue for the Towns, Counties, and School Districts located off the beaten path usually in rural areas where its needed most.
I'm sure the people who are opposed to wind farms, oil, coal and gas are in favor of the only reasonable alternative, nuclear power.
I am no friend of wind generators and in fact prefer to go nuclear, but IMHO people's reaction to these things is just a little hypocritical.
No one ever complained about all those water well windmills all over the great plains, as a matter of fact artist's are forever painting them and tourists admiring them. No one has complained about those oil pumps all over the place. Few complain about the feed lots that stink up large areas of the west. No one complains about the giant steel towers that support the wires that convey electricity all over the country.
We have just gotten to be too prissy for our on good. I guess we deserve to be dependent upon, enriching and begging for oil, from people who despise us.
One of the big lies about wind and solar power is that when the goevernment "dictates" a certain percentage of a region's power come from these sources, the power companies are required to provide backup from conventional sources.
You know, the wind doesn't always blow and the sun doesn't always shine.
Thus, we have environmenatalism by fiat.
Thou shalt provide 5% of your power from "renewable sources", irrespective of whether it's possible.
Get rid of those wind turbines! I think the cooling towers of a nuclear plant would be a lot more attractive there!
Mark
They are ugly and I'd prefer nuclear or fossil fueled plants. I have driven past the one outside Twenty Nine Palms, CA and it is a formidible site - like a James Bond villain's lair. There is a wind farm here in Oklahoma too, on 1-40 near Weatherford. All the lights blink in unison. Kind of scary - like the windmills have developed some collective intelligence and are planning their next move.
Oooooh. They finally noticed?
Lets build reactors instead!
I hope this doesn't surprise anyone.
Of course people might decide to settle this outside the courtroom. It's never a good idea to piss off all of your neighbors.