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Yea! for the windpower guys!

Two days ago, I got into another (pointless) debate about whether wind turbines were "eyesores."  Debating aesthetics is hard enough, but relying on clever sentences and hand gestures is impossible.

So I went and found some footage I have on wind turbines here in Minnesota and cut them together into a video I called "The Beauty of Windpower" and posted the thing on Youtube.  If you have some time, try to look at it--less than 6 minutes long.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3EkdtXpBrI

If you think I have advanced (or harmed) the argument that wind turbines are indeed beautiful, please let me know.

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Fri Jul 27th, 2007 at 04:48:09 PM EST
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New Youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EDlUWRgVPos

"Remember the I35W bridge--who needs terrorists when there are Republicans"

by techno (reply@elegant-technology.com) on Sat Jul 28th, 2007 at 06:27:09 AM EST
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I've never found them to be particularly obtrusive, personally. Of course, Åland is fairly sparsely populated area (27,000 inhabitants), so you don't need a whole lot of wind turbines to meet the electricity demands of the whole area.
That said, the new wind farm mentioned in the diary isn't being constructed in anyone's way anyway; they're being constructed in a former mining area!

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde
by NordicStorm (m<-at->sturmbaum.net) on Sat Jul 28th, 2007 at 07:00:10 AM EST
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