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Another energy thread: the Pickens Plan

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by trifectarich, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    It's because of NIMBY. Everyone is in favor of windfarms, etc. until they actually have to look at them.
     
  2. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Plenty of places in SoDak and NoDak where no one even has to look at them.

    Get it done. It isn't the sole solution. But if we keep waiting on a magic bullet, we're screwed.

    Up the windmills, I say.
     
  3. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    I have no problem with them. I like driving past the windmill "farm" off I-39 in Godforsaken Middleofnowhere, Illinois when I go back to see my parents in Wisky.
     
  4. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    Here's an idea:

    Why not sink some government money into putting up windmills on the reservations?

    Cheap, clean energy and you help alleviate some of the most awful poverty anywhere in the nation.
     
  5. buckweaver

    buckweaver Active Member

    I love, love, love driving past the windmills near Palm Springs. Just a phenomenal sight.
     
  6. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    This was quality.
     
  7. PopeDirkBenedict

    PopeDirkBenedict Active Member

    I like the way you think. I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
     
  8. zeke12

    zeke12 Guest

    It's soon to be available in BLOG!-form.

    But I can hook you up with the dead tree version, too.
     
  9. Flying Headbutt

    Flying Headbutt Moderator Staff Member

    I thought the same thing when I drove past them. I really didn't understand how anyone could raise a fuss over them. And when I drive by them on the Pa Turnpike, I still don't understand the quibble.
     
  10. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    I've actually checked into putting a small wind turbine up on my house. Local codes won't let me.

    There's no reason every house can't have one, especially in the plains and on the coasts.
     
  11. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    As has been stated, there are entire counties of southwestern North Dakota that are virtually empty. There are no neighbors to piss off, except for coyotes and rattlesnakes and the occasional bison.

    The state of ND, which had the forsight to begin its own bank and grain-selling operation many decades ago, should do this on its own and become energy-independent while making the oil/coal companies pay a huge extraction tax for the ecological mess they're making/will make of the state west of the Missouri.

    I've always wondered why the plains states haven't cashed in on wind power, and why the sunbelt states haven't cashed in on solar. There's no reason everyone in Arizona shouldn't have some sort of solar power.
     
  12. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    NIMBY is probably the main problem. You've got to get the power from where the turbines are to where the people are.
     
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