Lord knows there's a lot of wind in Texas. It's about time.

When they say "a critical migratory bird flyway", I take it they mean, party destination for college coeds on spring break...yeehawwww!

There already are six wind farms in West Texas, where the presence of buttes and mountain passes and the absense of trees or people make it a lot easier to put those towers up without NIMBY battles. There will probably be a few with the offshore ones, but since Texas is OK with Gulf oil rigs, they aren't going to complain about the wind towers (unless the whooping cranes start flying into the propellars during the winter migrations).

I'm with Kennedy. I don't want those contraptions around my house? Because there are in fact nimby issues raised should indicate to someone that its an unnecessary governmental intrusion. What are you people? Sheep.

How do they plan to keep the birds from being being slaughtered in the blades. The article mentions the possibility, but doesn't follow through on how existing wind farms work.

h:

So you think the energy you use now doesn't impact anyone's backyard--does the BTU fairy sprinkle it over your house every night?

OJ

Do you live next to a coal burning power plant? Do you want to? Or is this another job mexicans are supposed to do for us?

Next to a sewage treatment plant. We're notoriously downwing from the coal burning. I like power and clean water.

OK, so using the government to block someone else's private business is conservative. I can see how I got confused there...

"Next to a sewage treatment plant. We're notoriously down wind from the coal burning"

Explains everything.

David

My assumption is that wind energy is only being built because of government subsidies.

It explains why Northeasterners are willing to wreck the economy to prevent coal burning--they share your NIMBY selfishness.

erp:

Ranching clients of mine in the Altamont Pass (thirty miles east of San Francisco), which has hundreds of wind turbines, called the turbines 'raptor Cuisinarts'. There's no way to avoid the killing, unless you shut down the turbines entirely or at given times. Those turbines, when they're hummin', are quicker than birds' reactions.

It's much more logical to install solar panels in new houses in Texas than a monstrous wind farm on the route of the migratory birds. There'll be environmental protests as soon as the farm starts killing birds. This is actually the Texas oil men's sinister way to nip the silly wind farm idea in the bud. To the environmentalists, when the evil Texas oil men agree with you, something must be wrong. New environmentalists' position: wind farm kills.

Don't you realize that we can meet all our energy needs if we just conserve more?

Raoul:

Folks like h-man don't want to conserve anymore than they want energy generated within two states of them.

> The nation's largest

I wonder if this helped sell it to Texas.

Fred, I had read about that, that's why I asked if the problem was solved. Kinda reminded me of the Korean Olympic flame and the white doves.

A nuclear plant or high tech. clean burning coal plant makes more sense to me, unless they put them in the Canada geese flyways..

"environmentalists said the spinning blades could kill countless rare birds that migrate through the area each year."

So, these birds are both "countless" and "rare". Are these the same environmentalists who are doing the math on global warming?