We Were Warned in 1998

[Dorn Hetzel]

It would not bother me to have them in my yard, even in my front yard.

Power has to come from somewhere, and it's hard to find sources with less overall
impact than wind and solar. They complement each other nicely since it's often windy

when not sunny, and so on. Storage for when it's still and dark is still an issue, but
other fuels can pick up that slack for now. Making hydrogen with excess wind/solar
power to turn back into power for the grid or fuel for vehicles later is one option that

may work out.

If fuel cells can get a little down from the current $8/watt or so, I see silent RV generators
for dry camping in the not so distant future Even now, someone with one of those
$600K+ units could afford $40K for 5kw worth of completely silent generator capacity

that only emits water. With storage tanks and the right hydrolysis gear, the hydrogen
fuel could be manufactured whenever plugged into a nice 50amp park service

Dorn Hetzel
77FC35
Hogansville, GA

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Ryan Wright <"ryanpwright@gmail.com"> wrote:

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Leroy Eckert <"jwasnewski%40yahoo.com"> wrote:

>

> As well, I would not care to have those wind mill

> electric generators in Banning Pass behind my house.

> No one wants those in their back yard.

I do. I spent a year under contract to buy 100 acres of land with

several dozen of these just a few miles away. Too bad the deal fell

through, I would have loved to have lived there. Those giant, slow

turning blades are a thing of beauty to me, as well as what they

represent - clean power. They're silent, so no problems with noise. I

understand some folks think they're an eyesore, I'm just not one of

them.



Farmers with cheap, remote and windy land that nobody wants to live on

are now finding their property spiking in value. Wind farm operators

are paying several thousand dollars per year, per tower, and the

footprint is so small that the farmer can continue to grow crops. It's

a win-win to me. A friend of mine is about to inherit property with

residual wind farm income over a quarter million dollars a year. Ten

years ago, his father's farm was only worth what they could grow on

it.



-Ryan

'86 PT-40 8V92