There will be many more proposals like this in coming years on the East Coast, in particular. The mega-wind farms want to get at that "cheap" public land and the good wind generating sites in the Appalachians. It's sad that the centralized model of power production - big projects with long transimission lines - still holds sway. They are so much more destructive and inefficient than distributed networks. I've heard figures that up to 40% of electricity is lost during transimission from power lines and the longer the line, the more the loss. Just about every neighborhood could have it's own renewable energy project(s) of choice, with shorther transmission lines and less environmental destruction. Some how we, as a society, have not gotten over centralized power of all types.
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