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Originally Posted by katex
Oh Garinda, how I love you when you are trying to change the majorities mind about something .. bit like that movie ... sure you know the one about the jury.
You know I love these wind farms ... they may seem disproportionate to the ground level .. 122 metres, but lots of electricity pylons/towers are too .. nobody complains about these, and they are ugly. We are such a small country, and structures like these are always going to be in the sight of the population unlike other countries... e.g. Palm Springs runs mainly on wind power generation and contains approximately 4,000 windmills. They even run tours !!  As you say is subjective, but they take my breath away.
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Katex, Re. Palm Springs , been there more times than I can remember , couple of points , all the land in and around Palm Springs is Native American owned and any development is built on land leased from the various tribes (bit like the ground rents on terraced houses in Accrington) and as such is not liable for any form of Federal or State taxation on investment or profits.
The area where the windfarm is situated is at the bottom of a desert valley where nothing has grown for a thousand years, the only wildlife are the thousands of rattlesnakes and the occasional jack rabbit, situated between two mountain ranges the valley bottom acts as a natural wind funnel (the heat rising off the desert floor creates a 'vacumn' which pulls the cooler air in from the west) .
The video is also a bit misleading as to mentions the windfarm is next to the Palm Springs railway station leading to the impression its downtown , the railway station is a least 6 miles from downtown .
