Crosby Sands (Again)

[poliphilo]

One more photo of Crosby sands, featuring, not the iron men but that sticky-up thing (whatever it is) and the off-shore wind farm.



I love wind farms. I think they're awesomely beautiful. People love old-style wind-mills- and what's the difference- except that modern wind turbines are so much more elegant? I've read that wind farms will never supply all our energy needs- but why not, if we build enough of them?

Comments

[nostoi.livejournal.com]

This study seems to allay fears in that direction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4072756.stm

[karenkay.livejournal.com]

This is really interesting! I know almost nothing of offshore wind farms--I don't know of any in the US. I've seen several on land, and I know that one in California had a lot of problems with birds.

I live in an area that gets more than 300 sunny days per year, so solar is a much more logical thing for us; I haven't looked much into wind energy.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

We have a lot of wind-mills here on Saaremaa and the island is also a major resting stop on the migration path of thousands of birds and we have seen no great incidence of birds harmed by the turbines. They learn to avoid them.