[GOP_Lady]

[SeekAndFind]

I especially found the following insights to be RIGHT ON ( based on actual experience too ):

New York State's largest windmill farm to date, the $400 million Maple Ridge project, features 195 medium-size (400-foot high) windmills, part of a windmill surge in upstate New York sparked by state and federal incentives. That project has generated great controversy even in its rural setting. According to area researcher Dr. Nina Pierpont, it has also created "wind turbine syndrome," a variety of ills such as inner ear problems, headaches, difficulty sleeping, ringing in the ears, mood disorders, irritability, panic attacks and child misbehavior, all attributed to the low-frequency rumblings of the windmills.

There are practical problems, too. If the structures are put totally in the boondocks, massive new transmission lines must be built to carry the power to where the people are.

But such large facilities cannot be totally isolated, so NIMBY takes over quickly. Citizens say "Not in My Backyard" to the idea of an ever-present giant whooshing sound. And they oppose the sight as well as the sound.

Yachting liberal Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., famously took the wind out of the sails to a proposal for offshore windmills in his beloved Nantucket Sound. Walter Cronkite made TV commercials opposing the project, saying, "These massive wind turbines could disrupt the natural habitat for wildlife in the Sound and endanger boats."

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[Publius6961]

Wind power has its place as a power source, but it's not a place at the top. It provides less than one-tenth of 1 percent of U.S. electricitybecause it costs more to produce [and to maintain]. The wind may be free, but the equipment [and the maintenance] is expensive.

There.
Fixed it for them.

Did ya ever notice?
Solar and wind power contributions are never cited individually. The crooks always phrase it thus:

Solar, wind and hydroelectric account for 20% of our country's energy needs!
Whoop-dee-do!

Guess which of the three is 19.8%?

[colorado tanker]

What a stupid, ignorant comment. The tops of these structures were not engineered to be foundations for electricity generating windmills and the stresses they take. Then, of course, there is the aesthetics of it all. Would they really ruin one of the most beautiful buildings in the city, the Chrysler Building, with a goddam windmill, or a historical landmark like the Brooklyn Bridge?

The idea of creating artificial hazards to navigation in the form of floating windmill farms on the high seas is just nutty.

Ridiculous.

[Redbob]

Bloomberg is so full of it, you could power half the city via methane recovery...

[DungeonMaster]

Wind power is excellent, this idea is just embarrassing.