So I got thinking about this today. Somewhere southeast of here, they're building a wind farm. The wind turbines were manufactured somewhere in New York, and transporting them to wherever the farm is being built entails that the turbines be trucked pretty much right in front of my house on the main road through town. And these things are HUGE...twice today, the cops of blockaded the road off and guided traffic around the main road through town so that these trucks could take the turbines through town without interference from cars, as they take up almost the entire width of the road, are a few feet taller than your standard trailer truck, and quite a bit longer. This has been going on the entire month, and my mom said that one day they trucked four turbine cylinders through town that she saw. They get police escort and everything.
So...question. What do you all think of wind energy? I personally believe that wind energy is definitely something to be used where it can be used. Once mills are set up, all they really need is just some regular maintenance and that's about it, and the main cost of wind power is just setting up the turbines and power transmission lines. After that, it's quite cheap. Main drawback is that you can't harness wind energy everywhere, but where it can be used, I just don't see why it can't stand as a supplement to other sources or be the main source of power for an area. I know some people say windmills are ugly to look at, but I think they're more attractive than your average oil refinery. There's a refinery here in town, and it's also spewing smoke into the air and the east side of town smells like sulphur a lot of the time because of it. Plus it's on the river bank, so I wonder what kind of pollution gets spewed into the river from the refinery.
What do you all think?