[F.J. Mitchell]

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.

[Realism]

Don't forget about the cell towers they're quit a work of beauty also.

[woodbutcher1963]

I am in total agreement. We need wind, nuclear, hydro, oil ,coal and whatever else we can use to generate electricity in our country. The same hypocrites that don't want to look at a wind farm in Nantucket Sound are the same fools that don't want us to drill in Anwar or build any new nuke plants. We need a mix of ALL of these. Wind power is just one part of the equation. They make perfect sense for ski areas or any other higher elevation operation that uses alot of electricity and is already hooked up to the power grid. Smart birds will adapt. Dumb birds will be culled from the population.