Re: PHYS-L Digest - 19 Jan 2001 - Special issue (#2001-23)

["S.Goelzer" <sgoelzer@COEBROWNACADEMY.COM>]

> Date:    Fri, 19 Jan 2001 15:01:26 -0700
> From:    Larry Woolf
> Subject: Re: Global Energy etc.
>
> In California, we have a number of wind farms.  There are undesired
> side-effects - visual pollution.  The windy valleys are some of the most
> beautiful areas - the wind generators are large and ugly, scarring the
> hills.  There would be much opposition to the siting of millions of them.
> Plus I think they can be noisy.
>
> snip-

I remember being impressed by the wind farms when visiting Ca. but I also remember
noticing the seemingly high number of mills off line at any one time. Over 8 weeks
in the summer of 90 I made a casual (driving by) survey and found that 1 in 10
were broken? at any one time. Does anyone know of any real stats. on the
mechanical reliability of these things?

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