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Field fragmentation
Author: Bembinster, Jim
Wisconsin farmers sign on with wind developers because it seems like easy money. They are told they can farm right up to the turbine foundations. They are told about a quarter acre of land will be taken out of production for each turbine. What they are not told is there will be access roads and trenching for each turbine that will go where the developer wants them to go, crossing at diagonals in the middle of fields, and in some . . .
More »Destruction of Lowell Mountain, Vt.
Author: Mountain Talk
Photos from lowellmountainsnews.wordpress.com (click on a photo to enlarge)
More »Road Building on the Lowell Mountains
Author: Vt. Department of Environmental Conservation
Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation photos via lowellmountainsnews.wordpress.com Also see “Headwaters on the Lowell Mountains”
More »Lincoln Electric Wind Turbine
Author: Lincoln Electric
In June 2011, Lincoln Electric erected a wind tower measuring 443 feet tall at its world headquarters and manufacturing campus in Cleveland, Ohio. This installation is the largest known urban wind tower in North America, and is capable of producing 2.5-megawatts of electrical energy, or approximately 10 percent of the requirements for Lincoln Electric’s main Cleveland manufacturing facility. Lincoln Electric officially dedicated its wind tower on August 23, 2011. How big is the tower? Measures 443 feet tall from the . . .
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