OT: Why don't we cover mountains in wind farms?

Costs of construction of towers and power lines would be prohibitive.

Not to worry.

The dems in Washington could just borrow it. After all, what's another trill or two piled onto our obscene level national debt?

Or if they didn't want to do that, just crank up the presses and print some more money.

Devalue our currency and further fuel inflation? Hey, just welcome a few mill more illegals across the southern border and get them registered to vote...

Cost in getting the cable up there? Road required for regular maintenance?

Lack of cost of buying or renting land? Land is very expensive.

We need to design better turbines then, the current ones suck.

Good idea. After Trumps increase of national debt of 7.8 trillion, a few more won't matter.

Studies, assessments, red tape, health and softy, for goodness sake just get on with it.

They're further away than in the field next door. Things that are further away appear smaller. You also can't hear them. We could also make them look pretty - they can make mobile phone masts look like trees.

The College of Technology has a little one they mess around with but it's conveniently located in a windy canyon served by the city buses.

Oh come on that's a telephoto shot. Ben Nevis's peak (half that height) looks further away when I'm stood at the bottom of it. And wind turbines aren't huge black domes that stand out like that.

I like that photo, I'll have it for my background. Got any more nice scenic shots? Or wildlife?

Lot easier to make a phone tower look like a tree than a f****ng great wind turbine which has f****ng great rotating blades on it, stupid.

Usually if I come upon a bear or mountain lion the camera is either at home or in my pack. Elk, whitetail deer, mule deer, moose, and so forth are common enough that you don't think of taking a photo. Antelope aren't common in this part of the state but there are some on the National Bison Range, about 30 miles north of here. Bison, too, of course.

There are already some places in Wales where they possibly rely a bit more on tourism where the spectacular views are spoilt by wind turbines on the hill tops. They do cause their own form of visual polution.

I'd imagine for several reasons. Firstly, its hard to build stuff up on mountains, and ignoring how awful it might look, the weather is extreme and changeable, which as you know is the problem with wind turbines. They like regular winds not huge gusts ice forming on their blades and needing a mountaineer to get to them to repair line or turbine damage.

Brian

Because they would be more expensive and still wouldn't work

Exactly, that's why the proper place in fir a turbine is in a nuclear power station turbine hall, with a constant supply of steam going to them

And it's never one f****ng great wind turbine...

Agree about expensive and other issues of getting there. may not be cost effective. But why would they not work? Probably would require a different design, smaller diameter blades.