Re: Being eyeballed

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:45:25 +0000 (UTC), Roger Burton West wrote:
Paul Martin wrote:

About the only sensible thing one can say is that wind farms are not
the solution -- certainly not for the UK where cold weather (and hence
peak usage) corresponds with flat calm.

And not the way I've seen it encouraged by snake-turbine lubricators
selling it: every householder with a 1m turbine mounted to the eves on a
repurposed broomstick.

I quite like to have the occasional bird in the sky, something that
turns out to be essentially incompatible with large-scale wind turbine
use.

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/stories/2008/05/19/daily10.html

That's about 50 miles from where I'm living, and I biked past it a few
times last summer. I can guarantee you that there are no lack of birds
in the area. Damned red-wing blackbirds... The turbines are audible, but
hardly distractingly so, just a gentle "woosh... whoosh... whoosh..."
about once second.

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3. My noble half-brother whose throne I usurped will be killed, not kept
anonymously imprisoned in a forgotten cell of my dungeon.
--Peter Anspach's list of things to do as an Evil Overlord
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