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2005-12-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Bobby 2005-12-01 09:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Windfarms are the absolute worst environmental blight imaginable. They are innefficient and a drive through the Altamont pass shows just how hedious these things are.

I can't imagine anyone stupid enought to want windmills spreading across the country.

Posted by DoDo 2005-12-01 11:12|| 2005-12-01 11:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Only if we can chain the environmentalists to them, DoDo.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-12-01 11:19|| 2005-12-01 11:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I have driven that pass and think they are beautiful.

Posted by 3dc 2005-12-01 14:21|| 2005-12-01 14:21|| Front Page Top

#4 "I have driven that pass and think they are beautiful."

That says a LOT about you, none of it flattering!

Posted by Jeaper Threaper4347 2005-12-01 15:37|| 2005-12-01 15:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I think the large windmills along the German North Sea Coast are nice. The problem is windmill farms are ugly. If we had giant windmills (say one or two per town) spread out in the windier areas they wouldnt' have such a bad name.

Imagine if you got the high tech campuses up in windy Silicon Valley (at least Menlo Park where the big Sun Campus is) to purchase two windmills to power the campus and allowed them to sell extra power back to the grid. You get enough doing that any you take the strain off the power grid.

Trush is Environmentalists are not pro-environment as much as they are anti-civilization.

Posted by rjschwarz">rjschwarz 2005-12-01 16:17|| 2005-12-01 16:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Trush is Environmentalists are not pro-environment as much as they are anti-civilization.

Yep and in particular anti-enlightenment.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-01 17:14|| 2005-12-01 17:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Imagine if you got the high tech campuses up in windy Silicon Valley (at least Menlo Park where the big Sun Campus is) to purchase two windmills to power the campus and allowed them to sell extra power back to the grid.

I haven't seen the big German windmills so I can't comment on them. However, after the fight the cell companies had to go through to put up nearly invisible cell towers, I think that getting California communities to agree to such a plan is like, well, tilting at windmills.

(Sorry, couldn't resist).

Posted by DoDo 2005-12-01 19:38|| 2005-12-01 19:38|| Front Page Top

#8 the wind farm in Tehachapi isn't unsightly IMHO

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-01 20:44|| 2005-12-01 20:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm a Mechanical Geek type of guy, I had an opportunity to see Techapi Pass in person.

Beautiful? No.
Fascinating? Hell Yes.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2005-12-01 22:26|| 2005-12-01 22:26|| Front Page Top

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