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1. I remember there was times when I was heading to Yucca Valley, and I passed by these windmills, they were freaking me out they're everywhere.
2. His voice is soothing
3. Plums.
4. They are so big and UGLY
5. Its wind turbine not windmill
6. I love these things, there's one near a park pretty close to my house and sometimes on windy days the turbine's going crazy flapping all over the place.
7. WINDMILLS
8. What BS
9. how do u feel about windmills
10. You can have now your OWN Wind Power Farm on the screen of your phone with this beautiful live wallpaper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.softieriders.wind
11. They should have bought windmills from Vestas. :-P Much cooler, and much better.
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13. HERE IS THE BAD NEWS:   
    
    That is an extraordinary video and there is a marvel to what can be done.
    
    Amazing, but check out the landscape in the opening shot... from the very outset of the video, looking at that pristine environment and looking at the environmental degradation caused by mega-projects, I think that activists need to be focused on smaller scale distributed energy versus huge industrialized generation models.
    
    Until I saw this video I did not appreciate the amount of land that was scraped clean and the amount of impacted landscape that these gargantuan projects consume. Miriam Raftery and East County Magazine have done excellent investigation and reporting, including on KNSJ, into the downsides of mega-projects that usually makes sense only when there is massive federal subsidies that are milked by large corporations, more eager to get the subsidies than the energy savings of fossil fuels.  Activist San Diego had a general meeting on this topic and I was among those that got re-educated in the process. In the video that you sent me,  when I saw the size of the concrete base necessary for these giant wind turbines, I more fully understood how much water was going to be taken out of the fragile aquifers in our San Diego mountains and deserts.
    
    The wildlife in these areas will suffer immensely when perhaps a quarter of the landscape and watershed has been devastated. There is also a lot to be studied and learned about the negative consequences of massive electrical charges running through the soil and the air and causing disruptions in ways that we have barely begun to understand -- that have not only negative consequences for humans, but also for the navigation and reproduction patterns from birds birds to bees and beyond.
    
    While reduction of fossil fuels should be #1 one concern, we have to look at environmental degradation as well when we posit alternative energy.  I believe that from the standpoint of deep ecology, rooftop generation, parking lot solar and neighborhood grids, etc.  generate a saving up to 40% of the electricity that can be lost through transportation. as We are aware, large corporations will never give us the answers necessary to solve our problems, if they are driven by the greed economy.
    
    The energy conglomerates are focused on selling to us into a market of scarcity in which they control the mega-generation and power grid, while our focus needs to be on distributed generation and getting the federal and state subsidies down to the neighborhood and local level.
    
    Some food for thought.  On many occasions you and Gina have educated me.  As always I appreciate your deep thinking on all of these issues and raise these questions,  because I know that you are committed to social and environmental justice at its most fundamental level. In this case if I replaced a triumphal music on the YouTube video with somber, alarmist the music my reeducation would be enhanced.
14. Wind mills our good to build!
15. Power plants
16. dutch windmills have so much more character
17. wow, this number of windmills can power almost half of my country... amazing..
18. These thing are beautiful