On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 15:49:08 -0400, gfretwell wrote:


I agree that onshore wind turbines are a lot better than anything in
salt water but we own boats, we know about salt water.

There are still noise and bird kill issues.. It does seem to be a high
paying job maintaining these things as long as hanging on a rope a few
hundred feet in the air is not a problem for you.
I am curious what the maintenance costs will be over time. These things
seem to be very fragile according to that show the Weather Channel
dropped in last week.

At least here on the East Coast, off shore is where the wind is. As for
bird kills, while unfortunate, compare the numbers to habitat loss of
open pit mining and such. As an aside, I use to work on an oil rig in
the Baltimore Canyon. I remember during migration, we would literally
fill 5 gallon buckets of dead birds, mostly small warblers, daily. I
can't remember if there was a storm that blew them out there, but most
of them flew there last mile. We were 100 miles off AC.