Wind Mill Polution

[Robert Apple]

Inspired by one of Rob’s recent posts, They’re everywhere, Invading our photos, Wreaking Chaos on Earth, Cluttering the View. But sometimes they make a good Photo op.
Lets See Yours.
East Allen Reservoir Near Medicine Bow Wyoming

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Pawnee Buttes on the Pawnee National Grasslands

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Cherokee Park Colorado

See I do take photos of something besides bugs.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Sometimes, yes, when it is a wind farm, they do contribute towards photo ops. I like the clouds in the last image Robert. They just seem to be sailing by and the windmill in the foreground adds to the story 🙂

[Rob Wood (Admin)]

Are the land owners getting upset about it @robertapple?

I know in NZ a lot of the farmers are really pissed about it and also the power towers across their land.

[Tersha]

I don’t know about anywhere else, but in Wales the farmers get paid pretty well for having them on their land, so a lot are quite keen to have them.

[Rob Eyers]

The same in Ontario Diane.

[Robert Apple]

All of them in this area are on government owned land, as far as I am aware of. The two biggest conflicts they have caused is a significant cost increase in electrical power, and the inner turmoil in the environmental groups as though it be green energy they are decimating bird populations. I personally witnessed a small flock of geese get in the path of a wind turbine once. The carnage was unimaginable.
They have, as most everything in the world anymore has, have become a charged political issue, so I will stop there as I like my Light Stalking politics free.

[Rob Eyers]

The carnage and cost of electricity are issues for sure Robert. A client working for the electrical company told me they have to have 5 running in a cluster before they connect them to the grid. He told me they can’t regulate them until they’re connected. Electrical spikes are destroying electronics where we live because of it. Lots of power dropouts now too. Wouldn’t really call it progress….enough said.

[Tersha]

[Dahlia Ambrose]

I like the second image more Diane, wonder how deep they drill into the mountains to have these installed! Sadly contributes to killing Earth I guess 🙁

[Robert Apple]

Great Examples Diane

 

[Tobie]

Yep. They’re everywhere. Popping up like mushrooms at the least expected places. As a bird lover & photographer I hate them because they kill hundreds of thousands of birds annually.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Nice image and message Tobie. Looking through this thread, I have understood that these are structures that cause destruction. Did not know that the birds got killed 🙁

When in school, we went to a wind farm, was a field trip to learn about how these worked. All they talked about was the efficiency and the low cost in generating power!

[Tobie]

Yea understandably they’ll try to hide the cons about these giants Dahlia. In can not argue the fact that they certainly have pros too. How do they say? “No pain, no gain”!

[Dahlia Ambrose]

🙂

[Robert Apple]

Good one Tobie

[Tobie]

Thanks Robert. A little too bright sky but I was in no mood at all for photo editing when posting it! 😉

[Robert Apple]

I find the devastation to the bird population a sad result as well, though I am reminded of an old acquaintance of mine who was a Lepidopterologist, a scientist who specializes in butterflies, who rode his bike everywhere during the summer and only drove his car or traveled in any sort of vehicle in the winter because of the death of butterflies on radiator grilles and windshields. He was a no kill scientist at a butterfly garden. Human tech always seems to have a consequence to something somewhere.

[Robert Apple]

I took this photo, on my phone, in central Wyoming when I had blown a tire to illustrate the Desolation of where I was, I didn’t even notice the wind turbines in the distance until weeks later when I put it on the PC.

[Dahlia Ambrose]

Wow yes, and so many of them too 🙂

[karenhy]

This was taken on Maui from helicopter-excuse reflections

[Robert Apple]

Another good example Karen

[Robert Apple]

This one is over 125 years old according to the plaque mounted to it.
Prairie Windmill

[LeanneC]

Interesting and timely post for me to come across, as we just passed through the Columbia Gorge (WA and OR) and were stunned by the number of wind mills from when we had last been through there. My daughter stopped counting when she reached 100 and we came around a corner faced with even more. We continued north through the evening and were in awe of the blinking red lights that indicated even more. I didn’t fully realize the controversy around them. I am saddened to hear the affect on the bird population. We recently had five installed beside a nearby highway and we gawk at them, as they seem very alien on our landscape.

[Rob Eyers]

More Aliens! The Algarve, Portugal.

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