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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve M Hostetter View Post
    Solar panels work off the suns radiation 100% of the time.
    Even at night?!!


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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Smith View Post
    Even at night?!!


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    I stand corrected I should have said 100% of the daylight hours thx steve

    If you figure in the stored energy created you could say that they work 24-7

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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by jayabbas View Post
    I imagine them as a sky perch for high angle l'scape shots or ultra brave base jumpers or just as you say, rusting 300' hulks -- we shall see.
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    Makes a great impact
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    Nothing beats a great piece of glass!

    I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.

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    Somebody told me that they are incredibly noisey. True?
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    No Bill they make the same noise as a persons voice talking.

    That noise is just from the blades cutting through the air. They regularly grease the bearings so there is never any squeaking noises.
    Last edited by Steve M Hostetter; 25-Jul-2011 at 13:42.

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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Maybe it sounds like someone talking if your Mother-in-Law moans on endlessly.... To me the most similar feeling is sitting in coach near the engine of a commuter jet.

    But $20K per tower, per year makes it sound quieter, amazing....

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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Quote Originally Posted by Dakotah Jackson View Post
    Most frustrating part is that the most reliable wind is OFFSHORE winds along the coastal areas. They could anchor hundreds of towers offshore.
    They do in England: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroby_Sands_Wind_Farm

    I'm sure they do in other places too.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Frank Petronio View Post
    In twenty years, once this generation of wind turbines become rusting 300' hulks and the corporations charged with maintaining them skip town, let me know how you like them then....
    Given the high number of people among us photographing derelict remains of past industrial periods (from steam age to space age), I suppose the then generation of landscape photographers will be loving them...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Gordon View Post
    I believe that solar is a much bigger threat. There are limited places to profitably cite wind turbines,

    No wind turbines are anywhere near "profitable." None will even return their cost. I see them as a short lived fad, just another way for politicians to hand other people's money over to their supporters. It's much like ethanol subsidies etc. Solar is even worse from a cost/reward benefit. It's all window dressing, something to allow politicians to speak "happy talk".


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    Re: Wind Farms - Before pictures

    Just a small home wind generator can save you 25,000.00 over 10 yr period or 85%..

    And you can pay the thing off in 3 months

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