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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 21:38:07 -0600 From: Steven Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: {attack} EDITORIAL: Environmentalists Face Por Choices in Wind Power IF YOU'RE RECEIVING TOO MUCH MAIL, Send email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YOU CAN ALSO READ IT ON THE WEB. http://www.topica.com/lists/USAttacked/read Rich Martin Moderator \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ A great editorial from a week or two back about wind power. ============================= Nethaway: Price of chasing the wind ROWLAND NETHAWAY, Senior editor My daughter lives on about 600 acres of South Texas land next to Big Bend National Park. When she first said she was interested in buying a section of land that a distant relative won in a poker game, I asked why. There's nothing there, I said. That land would be lucky to support a goat on 100 acres, which would limit her income off the land to a widely scattered herd of six goats. Less if you factor in the likelihood that mountain lions would eat her entire herd within a month. "It's beautiful," she said. The beauty of desert living with a backdrop of mountains and open vistas grows on you. One day I pointed to an object that jutted up from a ridge north of her property. "What's that?" The owner of the adjacent land had leased the ridge to an outfit with a bright idea that failed - microwave tower links to Mexico or something that never worked. It's a blight on your view, I mused staring at the man-made construction. I had begun to appreciate the rocky beauty of nature in the raw. Walter Cronkite and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. feel the same way about plans by an energy outfit to install 130 windmills taller that the Statue of Liberty across 24 square miles in Nantucket Sound off the shore from Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Cronkite and Kennedy find themselves among a growing number of environmentalists who oppose the construction of giant wind turbines that are touted as an environmentally friendly way to generate electricity without burning fossil fuels and polluting the environment. ----Subsidies cause lease rush---- Heavy government subsidies for wind-powered electricity has caused a rush by power companies and energy entrepreneurs to buy up leases to install giant wind turbines that stretch for miles across the horizon. The upside to this fastest-growing segment of America's energy picture is that wind is free and the electricity generated by windmills does not add to greenhouse gases or add to a national dependence on foreign oil. The downside is that wind power would not be cost-effective without state and federal subsidies. Wind farms also take up many miles of prominent landscape and then must have transmission lines constructed to connect them to an electrical grid. Considering the huge footprint they leave on the ground, they produce a relatively small amount of electricity. Even if government subsidies grow a new breed of millionaire wind wildcatters, fossil fuel producers also enjoy rich government subsidies. The main objection to wind farms is that they are an environmental blight on nature while attempting to save the environment. Environmentalists like Cronkite and Kennedy strongly support wind power as long as 20-story windmills do not alter the landscape of anything they have grown to love. The problem with that attitude is that some people may love the ocean view off Cape Cod and not mind sticking wind farms on mountain ridges in Appalachia or in remote desert locations. Beauty, as the saying goes, is in the eye of the beholder. While practically everyone agrees that leviathan windmills stretched across the horizon are an eyesore, there is a lot of disagreement over what part of the country is ugly enough to stick these things without running the risk of spoiling nature's beauty. A smaller group of environmentalists oppose wind farms because the churning 100-foot plus blades kill migrating birds. A wind farm in California, according to The New York Times, is called the "condor Cuisinart." The dispute over the rush to industrialize America's skylines with wind farms boils down to visual pollution against air pollution. 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