This thread discusses the Content article: HERALD POLL: Should wind power get priority?

YES to wind power. Bennion Spencer has been touting this in his platform for congress. We need renewable energy now.

Perhaps before the DH wrote this editorial (and to say that it qualifies as writing is being kind...attempted hatchet job is a better description) perhaps they should have hopped on the old Vespa and motored on up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. By golly there is a wind farm there! Is it an eyesore? Not in my mind. Looks great to me. Eagle and hawk carcasses all over the ground? None that I can see.

Does it run all the time? No, but if we had enough of them throughout the country that would be moot, because while the wind does not blow all the time in one particular place, it is blowing at any given time in lots and lots of places. And you don't need the big windmills either. They also have the smaller versions that can be put on the roofs of homes or buildings and backfeed into the existing power grid. And the Pickens plan is not only about making power from wind either. It is about freeing up more natural gas, a lot of which is currently being used to make electricity, for use in vehicles, thus lessening the need for foreign oil.

Will wind ever be the whole answer? No. But combined with solar, hydroelectric, and yes, nuclear, we can get away from using fossil fuels to make power.

We have no choice.

truthhurts wrote:
Perhaps before the DH wrote this editorial (and to say that it qualifies as writing is being kind...attempted hatchet job is a better description) perhaps they should have hopped on the old Vespa and motored on up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. By golly there is a wind farm there! Is it an eyesore? Not in my mind. Looks great to me. Eagle and hawk carcasses all over the ground? None that I can see.

Does it run all the time? No, but if we had enough of them throughout the country that would be moot, because while the wind does not blow all the time in one particular place, it is blowing at any given time in lots and lots of places. And you don't need the big windmills either. They also have the smaller versions that can be put on the roofs of homes or buildings and backfeed into the existing power grid. And the Pickens plan is not only about making power from wind either. It is about freeing up more natural gas, a lot of which is currently being used to make electricity, for use in vehicles, thus lessening the need for foreign oil.

Will wind ever be the whole answer? No. But combined with solar, hydroelectric, and yes, nuclear, we can get away from using fossil fuels to make power.

We have no choice.

ditto truthhurts, the only eyesore I see is the Smog over the valley. I think Electric cars should be next!!!!

Why can't there be a balance in the priorities for energy? The truth of the matter is that we need oil right now. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be developing other sources of energy so that we can wean ourselves off of oil though. It's nice to talk about some of these alternatives but we have to realize that many of us will still be using oil powered vehicles for quite a while. I still have at least a hundred thousand miles left to go on my car and at about 10,000 miles a year, it's going to take ten years for me to use that up. It's not like I have 30 to 40,000 dollars to just go out and buy an electric car or one that runs on natural gas and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one in that situation.

Let's drill for oil and build renewable energy plants at the same time.

truthhurts wrote:
Perhaps before the DH wrote this editorial (and to say that it qualifies as writing is being kind...attempted hatchet job is a better description) perhaps they should have hopped on the old Vespa and motored on up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. By golly there is a wind farm there! Is it an eyesore? Not in my mind. Looks great to me. Eagle and hawk carcasses all over the ground? None that I can see.

Does it run all the time? No, but if we had enough of them throughout the country that would be moot, because while the wind does not blow all the time in one particular place, it is blowing at any given time in lots and lots of places. And you don't need the big windmills either. They also have the smaller versions that can be put on the roofs of homes or buildings and backfeed into the existing power grid. And the Pickens plan is not only about making power from wind either. It is about freeing up more natural gas, a lot of which is currently being used to make electricity, for use in vehicles, thus lessening the need for foreign oil.

Will wind ever be the whole answer? No. But combined with solar, hydroelectric, and yes, nuclear, we can get away from using fossil fuels to make power.

We have no choice.

The SF wind farm does look really good. Not sure why people complain about the view.

Lovie wrote:
truthhurts wrote:
Perhaps before the DH wrote this editorial (and to say that it qualifies as writing is being kind...attempted hatchet job is a better description) perhaps they should have hopped on the old Vespa and motored on up to the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon. By golly there is a wind farm there! Is it an eyesore? Not in my mind. Looks great to me. Eagle and hawk carcasses all over the ground? None that I can see.

Does it run all the time? No, but if we had enough of them throughout the country that would be moot, because while the wind does not blow all the time in one particular place, it is blowing at any given time in lots and lots of places. And you don't need the big windmills either. They also have the smaller versions that can be put on the roofs of homes or buildings and backfeed into the existing power grid. And the Pickens plan is not only about making power from wind either. It is about freeing up more natural gas, a lot of which is currently being used to make electricity, for use in vehicles, thus lessening the need for foreign oil.

Will wind ever be the whole answer? No. But combined with solar, hydroelectric, and yes, nuclear, we can get away from using fossil fuels to make power.

We have no choice.

ditto truthhurts, the only eye I see is the Smog over the valley. I think Electric cars should be next!!!!

I agree I would rather see windmills. Than, the permanent haze from smog we have now.