The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by noonespecial on Saturday April 22, 2017 @12:47PM (#14173355)

I guess it's a matter of perspective. I suppose the true end-game is for tech is to be completely invisible. The great thing about wind and solar is that when you're done with them, you can pretty much just pack them up and haul them off. Strip-mining? Not so much.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by Normal_gaussian on Saturday April 22, 2017 @05:48PM (#14175008)

I agree they are much better than strip mining and I said as much, they just are not beautiful.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by ashark on Sunday April 23, 2017 @01:30AM (#14176690)

Maybe it depends on where they are? I think the ones in Iowa and Kansas look great, but that might be because there's not much else to look at. And if the old-and-rural endless plains meet towering-tech-wonder-behemoth aesthetic isn't your thing, there's so much nothing there that you can just drive a while and not see them (or anything else) and have that, too.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by hueving on Saturday April 22, 2017 @06:04PM (#14175083)

>Strip-mining? Not so much.

I assume you don't know much about strip mining, because strip mines in first world countries reclaim the land they mine as they follow the seam.

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