Do you have windmills in your country?

[Paco Dennis]

MIZZOU Windmill

This is THE windmill at Columbia Missouri...University of Missouri.

 

[smiley]

we keep telling you we do? - do you want to borrow some or summat??

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Taken in Michigan… we have some I. My area, most non-functional now

 

[Bretrick]

 

[MoBeans]

Our town became the poster child for how not to do wind power. The selectmen ignored the largest manufacturer of wind turbines in the world who said that the proposed units were too large, too close to neighboring houses, too close to the highway where ice could be flung into traffic. When the town said they wanted them anyway the manufacturer refused to sell to them.

So our town went out and bought used ones ignoring all the experts. Long story short this is a photo of one of our wind turbines on it's last day after being decommissioned due to noise complaints and legal action from residents. A court order forced their removal. There was nothing wrong with them, they worked perfectly fine but they cut them down like a tree.

Edit: They tried to sell them but nobody wanted them. By then they were old technology.