Taken on the outskirts of Palm Springs, just a small portion of the wind farms in the area. Edited in camera

[Kerrowdown]

Edited in camera

I hope you mean, you cloned in more windmills, otherwise IMHO that's just awful on the landscape.

[Bob Harris]

I hope you mean, you cloned in more windmills, otherwise IMHO that's just awful on the landscape.

No cloning done, this is just a few of the thousands in service. Doesn't look organized does it?

[Kerrowdown]

Doesn't look organised does it

You mean it is?

I'm sorry that's just terrible, at least here they're putting them offshore where most folk can't see them.

[j2photos]

Looks like my drive home through the altamont! They are everywhere out here.

[TedH42]

Yep, it really looks like that. The telephoto really packs 'em in close. You show them very well. I'm so glad that Palm springs gets to look at them rather than me.

Oh, I really like the photo. Thanks.

[Michael Piziak]

Nice photo of the wind mills.
Our need for energy plays havoc on the landscapes.
Here in WV, this beautiful valley I use to play in as a child turned into this coal fill (that's where they put the rocks and coal that is sub-standard left over from mining)

[TonyTurley]

That looks familiar, Michael. On the far southern end of Kanawha State Forest, there's a road that few people walk. It looks out over a wide, deep valley to a huge coal mine on the northern border of Boone County. If you zoom in on KSF using Google earth, you'll see just how massive that coal mine is.

Sorry to go OT, Bob. It is sad what we do to our countrysides.

Tony

[Bob Harris]

Yep, it really looks like that. The telephoto really packs 'em in close. You show them very well. I'm so glad that Palm springs gets to look at them rather than me.

Oh, I really like the photo. Thanks.

Ted, let's hope they don't cover Pikes Peak with these or any other part of the Rocky's, thanks for looking and commenting.

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That looks familiar, Michael. On the far southern end of Kanawha State Forest, there's a road that few people walk. It looks out over a wide, deep valley to a huge coal mine on the northern border of Boone County. If you zoom in on KSF using Google earth, you'll see just how massive that coal mine is.

Sorry to go OT, Bob. It is sad what we do to our countrysides.

Tony

Tony, not off track at all, I thought most of the coal industry was shut down in WV?

[zztopd]

And wee need more Don Quixotes and Sancho Panzas. Fine.

[MSL]

I can't say these look any worse than miles of high voltage towers, or what a giant solar farm might look like.

I'm sorry that's just terrible, at least here they're putting them offshore where most folk can't see them

I'd have to double check to be sure, but I think the offshore turbines tend to be a lot larger, because the winds are a lot stronger, so they also get spread further apart. In this sort of set up, you almost want to design it so that it forms wind tunnels, so that the wind energy not captured by one turbine will get directed towards the next row and so on.

[ausmoose]

I can't say these look any worse than miles of high voltage towers, or what a giant solar farm might look like.



I'd have to double check to be sure, but I think the offshore turbines tend to be a lot larger, because the winds are a lot stronger, so they also get spread further apart. In this sort of set up, you almost want to design it so that it forms wind tunnels, so that the wind energy not captured by one turbine will get directed towards the next row and so on.

Yeah, I saw a giant solar farm the other year. Thousands of solar panels next to each other - it was crazy! That was before I got my camera...

[Bob Harris]

Looks like my drive home through the altamont! They are everywhere out here.

Yes quite a few areas have these larger farms, quite a few in Tehachapi and even Texas has quite a few.

[j2photos]

Yes quite a few areas have these larger farms, quite a few in Tehachapi and even Texas has quite a few.

I think California holds a special place in their hearts for them, they are EVERYWHERE lol.

[Bob Harris]

Nice photo of the wind mills.
Our need for energy plays havoc on the landscapes.
Here in WV, this beautiful valley I use to play in as a child turned into this coal fill (that's where they put the rocks and coal that is sub-standard left over from mining)

and I assume that when it is full, it will be covered and replanted? Like I said to Tony, I thought coal mining was basically outlawed in the WV areas.