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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by djrogers on Sunday April 23, 2017 @08:22AM (#14177876)
This can vary greatly on the type of windmill... I live near the Altamont wind farm, and the oldest windmills are undeniably ugly, and so small that they required tons of them.

The next generation windmills were less ugly, but still too small. I always found them rather unobjectionable, but I could see one quibbling with that.

The current giants being put up though? They look great! They have these 90 foot blades that look like they were designed by an advanced alien race, their size makes them operate with a slow graceful sweep, and the relatively low density of them leaves the hillsides more visible as well.

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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by ocschwar on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:48AM (#14178138)
Altamont is a disgrace for the whole industry. They had incentives to install and retain mills at the site, but almost no difference to the bottom line on how much power they produced. That's why these ancient mills are still there, even if they're missing turbine vanes.
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