Wind farm in PA

Well I saw my first wind farm traveling down the PennTurnpike. 6 huge windmills About 1.5 hours east of Pittsburg.
Looked to me as if they were situated on a former land fill. Does any know what there output is?

That is the Somerset wind farm. Six 1.5 megawatt wind turbines. The ridges in the Laurel Highlands get pretty steady winds and the operator of this wind farm wants to put in more. The local residents are really fighting it. While a windmill looks graceful as you drive by, nobody seems to want to look at one out their kitchen window.

..... yeah, but they would rather have acid rain, smog or the threat of nuclear contamination.

Nimby is everywhere!

windmills are actually illeagle around here, people dont want there mountian views messed up.
I think this place should take on more hydro electric. A few things this state does RIGHT , only epa stoves can be installed, you cant smoke cigs anywhere, but dope is ok, you get fat rebates for solar, coal is illeagle, and boulde needs to be annex into its on state.

I don't think I'd mind looking across the way at a windfarm, especially that Somerset one. Drove from NV to CA once and came up on a large, sort of prickly looking windfarm that was actually unattractive. That was probably 15 yrs ago, so it might be different now.

Yrs ago, Ford and Olds and their managers actually built their homes overlooking their factories, because they were proud of them (if you could build it across the river, that's good too). Now everyone seems to find infrastructure unattractive.

And yes Sandor, all those things are more desirable because you can't see them. Smog sometimes, but only in a few places.

Steve

If I lived in a windy place, I would put windmills in my backyard and watch the electric meter spin backward while slugging down cold beer.

I wouldn't mind a wind mill in my back yard. When will John Q public get his head out of the sand and realize we have to change our energy consumption habits.

"coal is illeagle"

msg, i think perhaps your information is wrong, heating with coal in colorado is not illegal.

Ditto!!

Just curious, Craig...

Any idea on the lone windmill on Mt. Tom? I don't think I've ever seen it spinning. Was it put up there as a test of some sort, or does it serve any purpose now?

"MSG is in Boulder. From the city code in Boulder:

“Ordinance No. 5445 (1992).

6-9-5 Limit on Coal Burning.

No person shall burn coal in a solid fuel burning device.” "


ah, ic, so it's only in boulder, i had doubted that it was a statewide law since i know of many who heat with coal in colorado. additionally it is a rarity that such a law should be passed simply because so few people heat with it anyway.

I love the wind farms. I think they look cool. When we crossed Denmark by bus it made for a very interesting landscape in an otherwise mediocre peice of land.

We don't have wind farms for the same reason I can't get cell phone service here. Too many people oppose the towers. It has been a long hard battle for us to finally get one cell tower up. But still no service. While the rest of the world is being followed around by hundreds of Verizon service tehcnicians we are in the dead zone. We pay $45 per month for a service we can only use when we travel 20 miles away to the NY Thruway. The chances of a wind tower being approved are not very good. The arguments will rage on for years at the town halls and in the courts. Funny how short people's memory is. We just had a black out a couple of years ago where we were all sitting in the dark becasue the power grid failed. Seems more people would be working toward a solution instead of fighting the alternatives. But, no go.

Sean

Local story



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Be interesting to see how that one turns out?? Wonder if the NIMBY will prevail or some new form of it develops..