Energy week's second wind (Maine)

http://www.pressherald.com/news/Energy-weeks-second-wind.html

TOWNSHIP 3, RANGE 8 — Strung out for 14 miles along the north-south ridges of Stetson Mountain, the 55 wind turbines look like giant pinwheels, spinning slowly in a wavy line across a green landscape.

Up close, the scale is dramatic. Ginny Goodlett stood under one of the 461-foot-tall towers, as the 300-foot-diameter blades sliced through the sky, and took in the experience.

“I wanted to hear them,” said Goodlett, a teacher who lives in Augusta. “If I want to tell people that wind power is such a great thing, I needed to hear them.”

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Lynn MacDonald of Augusta, who was traveling with Goodlett, also found the sound quieter than she expected. Riding back along the access road, looking at the string of turbines on the ridges ahead, MacDonald reached a further conclusion.

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