Just because you never heard of an oil power plant, doesn't mean they dont exist. Same thing with a Pseudopeptidoglycan, it exists...everywhere in fact. (or it doesn't exist to you.)

In any case, the problem is fossil fuel power plants: oil, coal, natural gas, etc.

Nuclear fuel prices have doubled in price in recent years. Most of it is associated with the ability to safely mine and process the fuel. Most people tend to ignore the true ugly side of nuclear power, the cost to get the fuel. Processing and enriching the fuel is an extremely dirty and polluting process.

Many of you here are complaining that Gamesa just came to put these ugly things up and reap the benefits for the next 10 years. What about the hundreds of jobs up in Ebensburg? Did you forget where they are made already?

Furthermore, Cowher12, we are (big cities and small towns alike) all on the same power grid! Know the facts.

I am assuming you are considering HAWT'S (Horizontal-axis wind turbines) and if I were surveying this project for you, I would be thinking 'DANISH" since they manufacture the very best wind turbines and are highly efficient.

Some drawbacks, and they are:

HAWTs have difficulty operating in near ground, turbulent winds. The tall towers and long blades up to 90 meters long are difficult to transport on the sea and on land. Transportation can now cost 20% of equipment costs. Tall HAWTs are difficult to install, needing very tall and expensive cranes and skilled operators. The FAA has raised concerns about tall HAWTs effects on radar near Air Force bases. Their height can create local opposition based on impacts to viewsheds. Downwind variants suffer from fatigue and structural failure caused

'Barely acknowledgeable benefit and success'- Ha!

Put a couple oil power plants up. Watch the demand for oil in this country take a sharp jump. Prices follow this route.

Put a coal power plant, like the one near Indiana. It's just one of the dirtiest, causing some towns in THIS AREA to have high air pollution, the highest in the country! Don't forget the acid rain as well...caused by this coal power plant.

-Or-

We could build a few dozen wind turbines, have a little noise and not add to the mounting problems of poor environmental management caused by predecessors.

Aces20, your right they do recieve goverment money but that is the only to make a diffrence. We need alternative forms of energy, once there are enough of these farms they will run at a much lower cost and provide the same service at that lower cost to the consumer. All they need is time and space.

As for the noise, have you ever lived next to a power plant at all. They are noisy too, the problem is you only need a small area to provide alot of power where the wind turbines need more land to put up more turbines. The bigger isssue is this is going into the rural areas, where people move to for piece and quiet.

In short, the wind companies are making a living off the back of taxpayers while providing a "product" that provides a barely acknowledgable benefit and success, but a lot more problems.

JUST SAY NO TO GAMESA!!