On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 09:31:18 -0500, Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
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On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:57:28 -0800 (PST), Frogwatch
wrote:

I have also flown at low altitude over arrays of wind turbines and was
appalled at how destructive they were to the environment. Each
required a road to service the turbine regularly and the turbines were
like ugly blotches on the ridges. By contrast, the average
producing oil well can barely be noticed even from low altitude and
gas wells are even more invisible.

There are at least 500 windmills visible from I-35 and I-90 between
Des Moines and Rochester, Minn. No roads whatever. Not even one. As
for oil wells, there are visible moving parts roughly the size of a
car that will attract the eye from two miles up.

Casady

So, how do they service them? Or is it just so flat and clear they don't
need roads, which of course would make your "point" moot...??

It is pretty much open land. They don't put them in tree filled
gullys. They build them where it is unnecessary to do any grading to
get to the site with ordinary trucks. If you can grow corn on it, you
can drive vehicles on it if planted to grass. These things don't need
much service. It isn't an IC engine with water and sulfuric acid in
the oil. You can change the gear oil once a year or even less if the
oil tank is that size.