Terry Blanton wrote:
> Millions of wind turbines > around the world would certainly be a blight on the landscape.
Odd that people feel that way. Tulips, wooden shoes, funky bonnets, and windmills seem to define the Dutch.
We had this discussion here last month. As I said, a certain number wind turbines would be okay with me, but I would not want them visible from every national park and on every skyline. I feel the same way about highways, skyscrapers, dams and other large, visible infrastructure. The skyline of a large city such as New York or downtown Atlanta is pleasing to see. But if we built large buildings everywhere, crowding the whole sky from Florida to New England, it would be a nightmare. All things in moderation.
I suspect we are into the hundreds of thousands of cell phone sites. Pity we can't make those bloody antennae rotate in the wind. :-)
People complain about cell phone towers, and they should. Those things are ugly. Many nowadays are being disguised as into landscape in various ways. Many are built into church steeples. Some are in the shape of large trees or other natural objects. Up close you would never be fooled by one, but from a distance it is better than seeing an ugly, disruptive structure in a pastoral landscape. Here is a site that says there are about 130,000 cell phone towers and roughly 32,000 are fake trees, with fractal geometry:
http://www.fraudfrond.com/
- Jed
