What is your opinion on wind farms?
Monday, November 16th, 2009 at
5:22 pm
Do you think it is worth it to use wind power technology to generate electricity if it means we have to "insteall eye sores" that ruin our view of the landscape?
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I have driven through the wind farm in SE Colorado. It works for that area, because the wind never stops. Those 90′ blades were impressive.
Currently, I live in N Georgia. We do not get enough strong sustained wind here to power a light bulb.
I come on here and argue against this global warming hoax. But honestly, I am not opposed to clean energy. We just need to be rational and smart about what to implement and how best to use it.
Sunrise is brown in my city…
I’ve driven I-40 across Texas, I-70 across Kansas (and points east of Wichita), I-90 across Iowa and I-5 from Los Angeles to Seattle. The plains and bare hills can be mighty monotonous. Also, the question of whether the turbines are eyesores or beautiful depends on who’s looking at them. Cows and cattle fences represent ugly exploitation and environmental degradation to some people, and wind turbines certainly represent money to landowners.
If it’s a choice between that and destroying entire mountains and drowning towns in millions of gallons of toxic slurry in pursuit of coal, then wind farms are probably the better option.
They are a much needed reasuring sign that global warming is being taken seriously by governments, and steps are being taken to help our planet.
No other green technology is as powerfully symbolic as the wonderful sight of a wind farm.
I think clean energy like that is great but people or power plants aren’t using it because it just doesn’t supply that much power. Wind is only so reliable in many areas and wind in most areas just does not have that much force. Turbines on a hill side would not bother me that much, but I know people are not going to spend a lot of money to use something that give little results. That is why you don’t see them, it has more to do with that, but people just asume it is the eyesore thing.
Human nature is to go with what is already availble and less expensive. Most areas the whole wind turbine thing doesn’t come up.
I have to say, that there is no greater eye-sore than the tarsands, coal-mines, spills and leaks and the fossil fuel powerplants themselves.
Maybe we could paint the windmills? With designs that compliment the landscape?
And yes, I think it’s worth it. There are a lot worse things…
And don’t listen to the windmills kill birds. They do but not nearly as many as coal and oil (smog), and nuclear (contamination). And then there is climate change…. Windmills save birds. Just don’t put them in the stupidest places possible from that perspective.
Wind and solar have a huge potential for energy generation. There is more power in terms of sunlight, most of which heats the Earth, creating stable (more like once-stable…) imbalances in temperature, and causing wind. I will start over. There is more power in the sunlight that hits the Earth every year than we can use every year.
Everybody wants "clean" energy, but they DON’T want it where they can see it!
There were a lot of complaints where I live about a proposed Solar Power Plant, affecting the "view". (Actually, since they keep the area "weeds" down around it, I think it looks better than the surrounding fields do when NOT under cultivation!)
Personally, I do NOT think they are any more of an "eyesore" than wind powered pumps and/or traveling sprinkler systems; they are just "different". (I live in a farming/ranching community, and do neither.)
You need to get used to them, where they are a feasible source of power!
They look a LOT better than some of the "abandoned" buildings I see where small farms/ranches have been combined into larger holdings!
What virtually no one on this board realizes is that since 1990 we could have been getting most of our electricity from space except for the crooked acts of two men that forces us to be dependent on fossil fuel for electricity. Ever since JFK proposed space exploration space based solar generation was a key and integral part of the entire space program under both Republicans and democrats until one man who was a secret employee of the largest oil and coal supplier in the US became president and shut down all of the portions of the space program that would have had 90% of the US electricity delivered smog free from orbit by now and more than 60% of the electricity for the rest of the world as well.
Two crooked and greedy liberal democrats left the US and the world in hock to the oil and coal companies so they could milk the economy for higher profits. Bush almost had the space based generation program back on line before Obama was elected and now it has been scrapped again so the profit hungry oil Barron that Obama works for can screw excess profits out of the world until the wells and mines run dry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
http://www.nss.org/settlement/ColoniesInSpace/index.html
http://www.spacefuture.com/
http://www.larryniven.org/stories/nightmare.shtml
http://www.larryniven.org/stories/nivens_laws_2002.shtml
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/
They’re expensive and noisy. And you’re right about them being eyesores.
Recently there have been a lot of concerns raised by people living near these wind farms. Some of them have fallen ill, and it’s thought that maybe there’s something about wind farms that makes them dangerous to humans living nearby.
Nuclear energy is expensive to create but it’s still our best and most reliable current source. Hydro-electric is good too, but there aren’t many regions where you can build one of a half-decent size.
Anything can be considered an "eye sore." It’s that phrase "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Being ugly would be a dumb reason to be against someone or something. Look at poor Susan Boyle..
I think they look great- much better than strip mines and smoke stacks.
ive seen one, and i was amazed to see a line of huge wind mills, rotating, then felt scared about it because pop up questions descent in me, my what if..then when im home already, i search wind turbine and its not that bad, we should just think how great it is, and we can save more energy by using it..