[speekinout]

I suppose you have a point. A windmill farm is no more of an eyesore than a city full of high rises. But until they find a way to put cute little cafes in them, I will continue to think they are a waste of space.
They aren't environmentally friendly if you live near one. That's developed land. And a lot of it. (Or developed water, if you include the offshore ones)

[Oberon]

Why don't they just put these on the tops of buildings? Seems like the obvious thing to do. The building is where a lot of power is consumed anyhow, right?

[#3Fan]

I suppose you have a point. A windmill farm is no more of an eyesore than a city full of high rises. But until they find a way to put cute little cafes in them, I will continue to think they are a waste of space. They aren't environmentally friendly if you live near one. That's developed land. And a lot of it. (Or developed water, if you include the offshore ones)

My dad was going to put some on his land (of course they wouldn't be huge, but probably taller than trees), I didn't think anything of it and considered doing it myself, but I didn't realize there are people that don't like them. I'm surprized by that, like I said I think they look cool. Must be a rural mechanical thing for us. A lot of us rural people like mechanical structures and think they're elegant. We like old windmills, watermills, big barns, silos, stuff like that.

[#3Fan]

That's developed land.

By the way, what are you considering developed land? The wind farm I saw on TV looked like in was in rural land. The one in Pennsyvania would be rural also. Why would they have to put a wind farm in a town when electric power can be transferred by wire?