Here are two photos taken by Kevin Emmerich of Basin and Range Watch.
The first, taken around the time of Camp Ivanpah, just a few days shy of a year ago, shows a nice little spot in the creosote a few feet from where we all camped. It’s perhaps unprepossessing at first glance, but it’s a good example of your basic Old Growth Mojave Desert scene:
The second is of the same spot not long ago. The angle is different, because Kevin had to use a telephoto.
That’s the base of the 459-foot power tower for Unit One under construction.
god damn it
Just as bad as I feared.
That really sucks! Why not wind towers on top of buildings? Every building its own powerplant. Of course that would cost the power companies mucho bucks. Damn, I almost forgot who’s running this country. ‘We the people’ right? Oh yeah, corporations are people…
BTW, not to beat a dead horse, but from my casual observation the whole damn midwest is a ‘wind corridor. Lots of the area are farms. The gov’t used a lot of farmland as host for ICBM’s. Hey, I’ll bet power companies could pay off pretty well for wind farms on farmland. It’s a win-win. In the case of the farmers, they could get paid off by power companies, take less in gov’t subsidies, wins all around. Why isn’t anyone talking about this? Maybe I’m naive but it seems doable to me.
Steve:
Well, at least where I live (Illinois), that’s exactly what they’re doing. We’ve got wind farms sprouting up everywhere, and practically all of them are on farmland.