Larwyn wrote:caseydog wrote:pete.wilson wrote:Hey
I think a lot of what Boone says makes good sense but I do have one issue and we have already seen people comment about it in a different area/subject. People have said they don't like the sight of off-shore oil platforms from land especially in large numbers, OK. But what is the difference in looking at a large number of windmills (the big ones with 75' ft blades (I'm guessing here), it still comes down to being an eye-sore, it just depends in who's backyard this stuff gets built. Kind of like billboard signs along highways, we all like we them when we find a hotel or a gas station when we want one, but too many is an eyesore. I personally would not want thousands of windmills all across the US much less in KS, WY, SD, OK, TX and the other relatively windy states, or do you want a nuclear power plant in your back yard....their safe (useually). Something to consider when talking about points of view and energy plans
Pete Wilson
People are opposing windmills in scenic areas, Like the coast of Maine, but most wind-farms are popping up in the central US, with Texas leading the nation, so far. The wind-farms I've seen in Texas are all in flat open prairies with very low population density.
There is a lot of area in Texas where wind-farms are not going to damage the scenery -- believe me. That also happens to be where the winds are most conducive to wind energy generation. Same goes for other areas on the central plains.
As for nuclear plants, they are relatively safe, and can be located in the boonies, too. The political hot-potato is the nuclear waste. Nobody wants that in their backyard.
Mr. Dog,
Some of us live in remote areas of Texas because they are remote areas of Texas. It matters not if one or 1,000,000 people are bothered by the sight, sound and carnage of the windmills. It is not worth the effect it has on the environment in which we have chosen , and paid dearly to live. The noise and activity of the windmills harm kill or scare away much of the wildlife, and clutter up the once pristine view. You, living in Dallas, apparently have no idea what effect a windmill farm has on everything which was previously "wide open nothing". But that is understandable as most "city folk" think that if they put the "sewer" next to the family with no neighbors, then, "who really cares?". I say put that sewer and the windmill on the "grassy knoll". Just because you cannot see that windmill from your driveway does not make it any bettter for those, or even the one, who can.
We do not need all that "stuff" here, it's the folks all crowded together in the city that think they should be able to put their support systems in our back yard so they do not have the consequences of their own requirements that are the problem. I say, if you want a fence post, cut down your own tree, if I need one, I will cut it in my own back yard.
If the neighbor lives too far away to see, that is not such a bad thing. It surely is not reason to put up your big city support systems there!!
"Nuke Plant in the Boonies"?? Do you have any idea how many people it takes to build, then rebuild to new requirements before completion, then rebuild to even new requirements (also before completion), and finally bankrupt and abandon a nuke plant? If it were "the Boonies" to start, it may become a ghost town in the end but it would surely destroy "the Boonies" in between. What you call "the Boonies" is what we call home.
It is okay if there is more than a mile between houses. But those two houses do not need a nuke plant to supply them. Okay, put it in town, not here.
One big advantage the city folks have is the traffic jams. Often they have a good excuse for not getting to work before the middle of the day, and it gives them lots of time for pipe-dreams.........
Just another view of things.
Are they building windfarms in Kerrville? Kerville is also in one of the prettier parts of Texas - the hill country. I haven't seen any in the hill country, which is fairly populated, too.
The windfarms I have seen in Texas are along 1-20 between Fort Worth and Midland -- and where they are, It's mile after mile of flat, empty plains. Here's one near Sweetwater in West Texas...
