The difference is the coal plant is actually making power.
--- On Tue,
5/31/11, Peter Caldwell <peter at nosimport.com> wrote:
> From: Peter Caldwell
<peter at nosimport.com>
> Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Wind energy again
> To:
"Spridgets" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 12:33 PM
> On my trek to ensure all of the
> Spridget faithful will have a great time
in Elkhart Lake
> last Saturday, I drove by many windmills. I find it very
>
pleasing to the eye.... much better than the coal plant that
> I live 2 miles
from.
> I stopped and walked as close as legally
> permissible to
listen... and I heard, that "Dynamo
> Hum". Much more pleasant than the coal
> fired power plant near me... which also hums, but has trains
> clanking well
into the night, and steam rising all winter
> such that we have different
weather than folks 4 miles
> away.
> Probably wouldn't drop ash on my
>
house, either.
>
> Peter C
> ==
> At 10:44 AM 5/31/2011, David Lieb
wrote:
> > This morning I drove through the massive wind farm
> north of Indy.
Of
> > the hundreds and hundreds of windmills visible from
> I65, I only saw
>
> two that were not turning briskly. This is a first for
> me. Also the
> >
first time they've agreed on which direction to face.
> Perhaps they
> > will
now start the Sisyphean task of paying for
> themselves.
> > David L
> >
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