Sure it sucks being nearby, but it was still their choice. I usually only have problem when government gets involved and starts using eminent domain unnecessarily to force people to sell.
Is a revenue stream for MO and creates job. It also cuts down on CO2 and water usage! Iowa produced 16,295 GWh last year. That's 16,295,000,000 KWh. At a average price of .12 cent a KWh that is $1,955,400,000. Enough power for 1.5 million homes... There is money to be made. I promise!
Well, that's happening too for all the transmission lines. In most instances I agree, but you can't do anything you want with the land you own. Things that cause damage and loss to your neighbors are generally not allowed. Sent from my LG-D850 using Tapatalk
One major issue with wind power is that they can't add electricity to the grid when it is most needed. Our entire grid is set up to be able to sustain the electricity when usage peaks. This is typically on the hottest days of summer around 3-5 in the afternoon. Typically, those hot days have little to no wind associated with them. If we become more and more reliant on wind power, this may end up causing issue with rolling brown outs Sent from my XT1254 using Tapatalk
That's why that have to keep the coal plants on standby. So we have to run two energy production sources, neither running a capacity.
With our energy requirements continually going up and fossil fuels being a limited source, more and more of these green sources of power are going to sprout up and as you well know, it breeds the NIMB (not in my backyard) feelings too...understandably too. The problem with green energy as we know it now is that there really isn't enough bang for the buck. I've worked on some solar systems and the footprint required for charging 4 laptops was crazy...horribly inefficient. Sorry that you have to deal with this.
IF the power being generated by the wind farm was being used locally, I would have a bit of a different take on this, but this would be equivalent to building a hog farm in Central Park and trucking the hogs here to be consumed in Missouri.
This is an interesting chart. There must be some powerful lobbyists in Washington for the wind industry.
We have solar farms popping up all along the eastern seaboard, especially NC. These farm, yet quite, take up a massive footprint (as big as one wants to make it). Other than the noise of the wind farms, I honestly cannot see another downside to it, as of yet. At least they're not replacing whole ag fields.
Actually there is some truth to that. If you are hunting migrating birds the deaths from the wind mills is the least of your problems, they will actually find different flight patterns around the area.
We actually have a migratory bird sanctuary at the conservation area that is right on the border of the proposed wind farm There are windmills that will be less than 600 feet from the conservation land. The wind farm sites right in the middle of a flyway. We have thousands and thousands of Canadian and Snow Geese that migrate through this area. Not to mention all the ducks. I don't know if there are a lot of bird strikes, or if they just fly around them but it's clear this will affect the sanctuary that thousands of birds use each year.
Would you have supported Keystone if they proposed running that thru your backyard? A windfarm will actually contribute the American energy independence and assuming a US-owned company, create lots of US jobs.
