What I think we should do is facilitate siting. Make it easy and the funding will follow. Think like a developer. What are the hurdles in your town if you wanted to locate wind turbines there? Where are the best sites? Would the neighborhood support placement there? How can peoples' fears be addressed and laws written to address their concerns and simultaneously make it easier for investors to put up the turbines? Are the decision-makers in your town talking about and addressing this? If not, why not? Call them and ask them to. Volunteer to help. Nothing impresses a politician like a willingness to help tackle the issue. And, to reiterate, I think structuring development so everyone in the impacted area benefits financially would help sell wind.
Save the cookies for the public info meetings. Joel At 06:39 AM 3/21/08 -0700, you wrote: >I just read in the April issue of Ode Magazine >(http://www.odemagazine.com/) that Thisted Denmark is now producing 100% >of their energy from wind. They have a population of 46,000, and now have >250 windmills running. They also have a few farms producing biogas, and >many homes have personal wind mills. The town is attracting lots of jobs >within the alternative energy sector. > >By my rough estimates, here is what we would need to do in Ithaca. With a >population of 30,000 people, we would need approximately 160 wind mills. >Looking at this WI wind farm as an example, >http://www.mge.com/environment/wind/, they have 17 turbines operating on >30.5 acres leased from 7 parcels of agricultural land totaling 600 acres. >We would need to build about 10 of these farms. Probably more, since WI no >doubt gets better wind than Tompkins County, but that's a start. At a cost >of $14.5 million per farm, that's a total of $145 million to be energy >independent. > >Feedback on my rough numbers? > >Shall we hold a bake sale to get started? > >Eric > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. >http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs >_______________________________________________ >RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: >[email protected] >http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins >free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
