Comments about ‘Wind power generates controversy in Utah County’

I don't know how efficient they are, but they sure are an eyesore at the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon.

Q: Was than an eyesore on your property I saw.
A: No, that was my wife...

An eyesore? I think they're beautiful!

Think of how ugly a coal-fired power plant is; which would you rather live by?

Giant windmills are another white elephant like the geodesic dome houses of the 60s. They are not cost effective and never will be. Just another government boondoogle and ugly ones at that. There will be a new energy source within the next few centuries and it will be universal and an improvement on the current worldwide energy sources. It will come out of the research of atomic physicists. It will relate to mastering of the basic forces in the atom of repulsion and attraction. Eventually these giant "eyesores" and bird blenders will fall over.

I'd say a gulf full of oil is much more of an eyesore than a few windmills. They certainly wouldn't have poisoned Red Butte creek or Liberty park or caused any of the 15-20 major oil spills a year.

I find oil wells, coal mines and uranium mines infinitely more of an eyesore than a few windmills. Wind is renewable and produces NO waste. Unlike the dangerous waste produced in current nuclear energy reactors; it takes 500 years to degrade and it's hardly renewable.

Though Thallium reactors would produce waste that is non-toxic...this research is being blocked by capitalist and the uranium people. So, I say go with wind.

Can Leopard provide any credible evidence to the claims that windmill electric generators are not cost effective? Every article I have studied show exactly the opposite.

What renewable energy source would Leopard suggest that he would find to be less of any eyesore? Nuclear breeder plants? I know that those big containment domes are much prettier than windmills. And the big stacks of spent fuel. Oh, yea. Fun to look at. NOT!

Hydroelectric? Not too bad. But they produce less than 10% of our electricity.

Solar? Even the hugest solar farms are not capable of producing enough electricity to make them a viable option yet.

We need to use wind energy. It is cheap and renewable.

And they look cool! Much cooler looking than the coal burning plants that dot our landscape in central Utah. Now those are an eyesore!

Did I miss the part in the article that the headline was referring to?

'I don't know how efficient they are, but they sure are an eyesore...' - Cats | 12:15 a.m.


Better than the millions of gallons of oil that spilled into the gulf.

How about the oil spills in the US just last 7 years? I think there was 12.

One was in liberty park.

How much 'damage' has the wind done?

@BH 10:11 a.m.

"Can Leopard provide any credible evidence to the claims that windmill electric generators are not cost effective?"

The Obama administration (DOE/EIA)recently published a report that predicts the costs of new electric power facilities. Natural gas is the cheapest, coal is 20% higher than gas, nuclear is 43% higher than gas, wind is 80% higher than gas, and photovoltaics are almost 5 times as expensive than gas.

'Natural gas is the cheapest, coal is 20% higher than gas, nuclear is 43% higher than gas, wind is 80% higher than gas, and photovoltaics are almost 5 times as expensive than gas.' - 11:04 a.m.

This is a valid point from Eco-Weenie. 'Green' energy IS expensive at this time. From just short-hand projections, getting solar panels to cover your entire roof (and therefore power your home on sunlight) would cost an extra $15-20k...

for the home you are more than likely borrowing money from a bank to own anyway.

And solar panels can be recycled.

water power and wind can be cheap if it is made in a basic way. a water wheel in all our canyons culd make hugw amounts. but then the eye sore people cry about the looks but the cleaner air and less o3 in the valley.

Pagan:
Solar panels to power your home are way more than $15-$20K. For the complete system try $40-$70K installed for enough energy to power an average home.

Nukes are the only viable answer. They work in the day, at night, when it's raining or sunny. They work all the time. The amount of waste generated in a year is a cupful. Ask the French.

I think everyone needs to relax. This will all blow over.

I've said it before- I'd choose nuclear plants over wind power any day. More people have died due to wind power accidents than nuclear accidents in the U.S.

However, it's great that we aren't forced to choose one over the other. The technology and efficiency of wind turbines have significantly improved over the last couple of decades, and they definitely have a role in our current and future energy needs. I think private wind turbines are great ideas, if you are willing to pay for them.

We have a windmill and it has save us alot of money.
Leopard doesn't know what he is talking about.