I'm with Drew
Its his future and his kids and at some point we may have no choice but have wind tubines.
As for the bird watcher how many birds have you hit driving your vehicle?
Guess what there are lots more vehicles on the road then just yours so put that issue to rest.
Its time for a change and the time has pasted.

I don't want those ugly things here. Put them in California.

I'm with Drew - and I'm a mom with kids in college and we raised them here. But I've always wondered, if the view in the highway corridor is so damn precious, whoever allowed all those berms in there?

I don't believe anyone ever proposed "giant wind farms" or 200-foot wind turbines. Where did those comments come from? A 30-foot turbine on a residential lot in this valley certainly isn't going to kill any California condors.

What a joke. The environmentalist won't let us drill because it's bad for the planet, yet the Chinese can drill off the coast of Florida and take our oil, but when it's time to use "green energy" people like the late Senator Kennedy wouldn't allow wind turbines off the coast of his mansion. The US is becoming a third world nation because the left is willing to destroy our economy while China and India prosper by our stupidity. Why not let our oil companies get our oil, instead of countries who could care less about environmental impact. Do you really believe that China cares about the Florida coastline? We're slowly killing our economy, alternative energy sounds good, but even if they did put up wind turbines they are only effective 30% of the time. Trust me if I had oil in my backyard I would drill in an instant so that my kids might have a shot at an economic future. The "green energy" promise is not happening soon and neither is our economic recovery.

The Ugly Truth About the " New Safer Prop Wind Turbines" - A must See Video............I am an expert on Birds of Prey. For all the "green energy" believers out there, this is a video you have to see. Each year across America thousands of eagles, hawks, owls, falcons, vultures and condors perish at "green energy" wind farms. This video will open your eyes and your mind when you see how easily a soaring vulture is smashed by the innocent looking blades of a prop wind turbine. Most prop wind turbines have blade tips speeds of approximately 200 mph. This video illustrates why all birds and bats do not have a chance near the spinning blades of a prop turbine. There has been a wind industry cover-up about the bird mortality problem for decades. Most wind farms have very high security so images like this can not be seen.

fatal accident with vulture on a windmill
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The prop turbine in this video is not even spinning at full speed. It is spinning at 12 rotations per minute. At full speed it will spin at 20 rotations per minute making this wind turbine even more dangerous to anything that happens to fly by. This is why each year across the world, millions of birds and bats are killed by prop turbines.

Fraud is commonly used in the permitting process for every wind farm. I recently came across this fraudulent statement used by the wind industry in the Final Environmental Impact Report for the PDV Wind Project in Kern County, CA "Scientific literature also suggests that diurnal vultures, such as the California condor, are not at substantial risk for collisions with wind turbines."

The scientific community is very aware that each year thousands of vultures of every type are slaughtered by prop wind turbines. The numbers of dead vultures worldwide indicates that these slow flying gliders are not at all able to "skillfully" avoid the 200 mph tip speed a prop wind turbine as claimed in the Final PDV EIR. This video clearly demonstrates the danger prop wind turbines are to all birds, especially the California Condor.

Kern County recently gave the wind industry a permit to construct the large PDV prop wind turbine farm in condor habitat. A decision on another large prop wind farm, the Alta Oak Wind Project, will be given in November 09. It too will be located in condor habitat.

The public is not aware that there are alternative wind turbine designs available that do not slaughter our precious wildlife and also produce much more energy. One of them is produced by Environmental Technologies LLC. If the corrupt entities of Wall Street, Washington, and our courts were not protecting this industry, this terrible problem would already be resolved.

Prop turbines are all about functional obsolescence, planned obsolescence, and most of all greed. The outdated technology of the prop wind turbine needs to be exposed for the fraud it represents to the green energy movement.

The dams resticted movemnt of the salmon so they could not spawn in traditional areas thus begining the cycle of extinction. We're doing it the other way. By not doing what we can we hasten our own extinction. I think we should listen to the kid on this one.

I'm 12, I was born here, and I'm in shock. I can not believe that we are turning down a wind turbine project because of how it looks. That has to be one of the most selfish, idiotic, short-sight things I've ever heard. I would personally like to thank those involved for helping to destroy the planet. We talked about these turbines in my class, and everyone thought it was an awesome idea, we had no clue the project might be canceled because of how it might look. That has to be the dumbest thing I've ever heard. It's really too bad that no one cares about the future. The same thing happened in Nantucket, and even people like Senator Ted Kennedy (one of the most liberal people ever), were against it because of how they looked. All I can say is....I can't wait until my generation is running the country, I guarantee you things will be different. I just hope you idiots leave us something to save.

I never would have thought the residents of our valley could put aesthetics above alternative energy. How can we ever lose our dependency on oil (foreign and domestic) when such petty issues as "scenic corridors" can put the kibosh on simple, inexpensive alternatives? Oh well, I guess our valley is really no different than anywhere else; we should be ashamed of ourselves.

Giant 200 foot wind turbines gracing our landscape as you enter the valley does not seem like a good idea. They are fine in barren landscapes that have little else to offer.
Remember, at one time dams seemed like a brilliant idea, ask the salmon how they feel about that one.