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them.
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
rememberPlus I think they can be noisy.
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I remember being impressed by the wind farms when visiting Ca. but I also
noticing the seemingly high number of mills off line at any one time. Over8 weeks
in the summer of 90 I made a casual (driving by) survey and found that 1in 10
were broken? at any one time. Does anyone know of any real stats. on theI don't have stats handy, but be aware that these large wind farms went up
mechanical reliability of these things?