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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1675694" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>I was on the advisory board for a wind farm project up here. Anti-winders got all bent out of shape that they cause "health effects". What it really was all about was they didn't want the turbines in "they're backyard". We've got turbine farms all around us, but they got 'em shut down on our project and a number of others in the area too. They were pushing that "solar isn't so obvious" and would be a "better alternative energy source".</p><p></p><p>Well, now they're getting what they wished for... solar farms are going in all over the place here too. Ugliest things I've ever seen. And on top of it, a wind turbine only takes about 4 times as much land out of production per MW produced as the local natural gas plant, and the rest continues to produce ag product just like it used to. These solar farms take out 70 times as much!</p><p></p><p>Guess that's "progress"!</p><p></p><p>Solar has a place... all of our buildings should have solar roofs... I'm even considering converting my "windbreak" into a "solar windbreak grove"... Putting in the solar on something like a scaffold framework, so that the panels are on the top in a row maybe 20' wide x about 1000' long... and then planting determinate height trees/shrubbery on each side of the scaffold structure to "hide it". If the government subsidies will help me make my windbreak "pay" even better.................... why not?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1675694, member: 39018"] I was on the advisory board for a wind farm project up here. Anti-winders got all bent out of shape that they cause "health effects". What it really was all about was they didn't want the turbines in "they're backyard". We've got turbine farms all around us, but they got 'em shut down on our project and a number of others in the area too. They were pushing that "solar isn't so obvious" and would be a "better alternative energy source". Well, now they're getting what they wished for... solar farms are going in all over the place here too. Ugliest things I've ever seen. And on top of it, a wind turbine only takes about 4 times as much land out of production per MW produced as the local natural gas plant, and the rest continues to produce ag product just like it used to. These solar farms take out 70 times as much! Guess that's "progress"! Solar has a place... all of our buildings should have solar roofs... I'm even considering converting my "windbreak" into a "solar windbreak grove"... Putting in the solar on something like a scaffold framework, so that the panels are on the top in a row maybe 20' wide x about 1000' long... and then planting determinate height trees/shrubbery on each side of the scaffold structure to "hide it". If the government subsidies will help me make my windbreak "pay" even better.................... why not? [/QUOTE]
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