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February 26, 2018 at 11:31 pm #331101Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesInspired by one of Rob’s recent posts, They’re everywhere, Invading our photos, Wreaking Chaos on Earth, Cluttering the View. But sometimes they make a good Photo op.
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February 27, 2018 at 5:37 am #331123Dahlia AmbroseKeymaster
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Allows Edits? YesSometimes, yes, when it is a wind farm, they do contribute towards photo ops. I like the clouds in the last image Robert. They just seem to be sailing by and the windmill in the foreground adds to the story 🙂
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February 28, 2018 at 5:40 am #331229Rob Wood (Admin)Keymaster
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Allows Edits? YesAre the land owners getting upset about it @robertapple?
I know in NZ a lot of the farmers are really pissed about it and also the power towers across their land.
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February 28, 2018 at 7:34 am #331237TershaKeymaster
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Allows Edits? YesI don’t know about anywhere else, but in Wales the farmers get paid pretty well for having them on their land, so a lot are quite keen to have them.
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February 28, 2018 at 8:44 am #331241
The same in Ontario Diane.
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February 28, 2018 at 8:38 am #331240Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesAll of them in this area are on government owned land, as far as I am aware of. The two biggest conflicts they have caused is a significant cost increase in electrical power, and the inner turmoil in the environmental groups as though it be green energy they are decimating bird populations. I personally witnessed a small flock of geese get in the path of a wind turbine once. The carnage was unimaginable.
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February 28, 2018 at 9:16 am #331242
The carnage and cost of electricity are issues for sure Robert. A client working for the electrical company told me they have to have 5 running in a cluster before they connect them to the grid. He told me they can’t regulate them until they’re connected. Electrical spikes are destroying electronics where we live because of it. Lots of power dropouts now too. Wouldn’t really call it progress….enough said.
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February 28, 2018 at 7:33 am #331236TershaKeymaster
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March 1, 2018 at 5:32 am #331369Dahlia AmbroseKeymaster
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Allows Edits? YesI like the second image more Diane, wonder how deep they drill into the mountains to have these installed! Sadly contributes to killing Earth I guess 🙁
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March 1, 2018 at 11:06 am #331407Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesGreat Examples Diane
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February 28, 2018 at 1:03 pm #331253
Yep. They’re everywhere. Popping up like mushrooms at the least expected places. As a bird lover & photographer I hate them because they kill hundreds of thousands of birds annually.
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March 1, 2018 at 5:37 am #331371Dahlia AmbroseKeymaster
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Allows Edits? YesNice image and message Tobie. Looking through this thread, I have understood that these are structures that cause destruction. Did not know that the birds got killed 🙁
When in school, we went to a wind farm, was a field trip to learn about how these worked. All they talked about was the efficiency and the low cost in generating power!
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March 2, 2018 at 11:04 am #331506
Yea understandably they’ll try to hide the cons about these giants Dahlia. In can not argue the fact that they certainly have pros too. How do they say? “No pain, no gain”!
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March 2, 2018 at 5:15 pm #331532Dahlia AmbroseKeymaster
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Allows Edits? Yes🙂
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March 1, 2018 at 11:07 am #331408Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesGood one Tobie
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March 2, 2018 at 11:06 am #331507
Thanks Robert. A little too bright sky but I was in no mood at all for photo editing when posting it! 😉
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March 1, 2018 at 11:24 am #331410Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesI find the devastation to the bird population a sad result as well, though I am reminded of an old acquaintance of mine who was a Lepidopterologist, a scientist who specializes in butterflies, who rode his bike everywhere during the summer and only drove his car or traveled in any sort of vehicle in the winter because of the death of butterflies on radiator grilles and windshields. He was a no kill scientist at a butterfly garden. Human tech always seems to have a consequence to something somewhere.
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March 1, 2018 at 11:15 am #331409Robert AppleModerator
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March 2, 2018 at 5:16 pm #331533Dahlia AmbroseKeymaster
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Allows Edits? YesWow yes, and so many of them too 🙂
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March 2, 2018 at 4:55 pm #331530Robert AppleModerator
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Allows Edits? YesAnother good example Karen
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March 11, 2018 at 2:00 pm #332431Robert AppleModerator
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April 1, 2018 at 1:15 am #335847
Interesting and timely post for me to come across, as we just passed through the Columbia Gorge (WA and OR) and were stunned by the number of wind mills from when we had last been through there. My daughter stopped counting when she reached 100 and we came around a corner faced with even more. We continued north through the evening and were in awe of the blinking red lights that indicated even more. I didn’t fully realize the controversy around them. I am saddened to hear the affect on the bird population. We recently had five installed beside a nearby highway and we gawk at them, as they seem very alien on our landscape.
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