In the Hills of Nebraska, Change Is on the Horizon

[lsanderson]

August 4, 2008
This Land
In the Hills of Nebraska, Change Is on the Horizon
By DAN BARRY

AINSWORTH, Neb.

Driving south out of the agricultural town of Ainsworth, you cant miss its newest crop: wind turbines, three dozen of them, with steel stalks 230 feet high and petal-like blades 131 feet long, sprouting improbably from the sand hills of north-central Nebraska, beside ruminating cattle.

Though painted gray, the turbines stand out against the evening backdrop of battleship-colored thunderclouds and bear an almost celestial whiteness when days light is right. Airplane pilots can spot them from far away, and rarely does a bird make their unfortunate acquaintance. More

Comments

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

nd rarely does a bird make their unfortunate acquaintance. More

Not that the greenies will listen.
Oh, and by the way, I am a "greenie".

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

See, I don't know a single person who might consider voting green who believes that bird kill is a problem with current-generation wind machines not located in a high pass on a major migration route.

And it really *was* a problem on previous-generation machines (faster rotation speeds) sited in a high pass (no reasonable way around) on a major migration route.

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

You're hanging out with the wrong people.
That said, the ones that I met do not acknowledge the changes to methods and the technologies involved.