Windmill Farms Blossoming In Eastern Oregon

I love my green state! :-)

June 23, 2005
Windmill Farms Blossoming In Eastern Oregon

By KATU Web Staff
SHERMAN COUNTRY, Ore. - The summer wheat bends lightly in the almost constant breeze moving across the vast open spaces of Eastern Oregon. It blows year-round across farmlands that have long produced bountiful crops for the Northwest and the world beyond.

Now, another crop is being planted, and if all goes as planned, the harvest will be substantial and will grow as the years go by.

The new crop is windpower, and the golden fields long graced by dependable gales are sprouting mammoth machines for harvesting the endlessly renewable resource.

Soon, along with the amber waves of grain, scores of towering wind machines, working day and night, will rotate their huge propellers in unison, flowing power and money into Northwest homes.

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What is your opinion? Some people say they are "ugly". But give me ugly over polution and killing for oil anyday.

IMO they are beautiful works of art.

in Fresno, but I've always found it strange that Nevada doesn't wind and solar farm - both natural resources are in abundance there. They could be selling power to the entire west.

Minnesota highways too. I love them, they represent freedom from oil and death. As to being ugly - as compared to what? power poles for miles on end? power stations? nuclear plants? oil spills? 1753+ soldiers dead?

My thoughts exactly!

for every life taken in this god forsaken war for oil power. Then perhaps 2 or 3 for each of those who will be disabled for life and need even more power just to sustain their needed equipment!
Let Washington(DC) know that OR isn't quite ready for another N-power plant! Washington, (state) Oregon, and Idaho already share hydroelectric power with several other states so we have access to a lot of lines! Many of the high winds on the coastal headlands would be a prime source too.

where you feel you're on top of the world anyways and then to see the windmill plantations off in the distance, their motion is eyegrabbing from miles away, and they're placed in groups, and when you come up to them they are so huge and yet are the only things making a motion it seems...

The 40 miles or so from Condon to Wasco is beautiful in it's own right, and the towers only add to the aesthetic.

nuclear plants, etc. Ever driven through the Texas panhandle? Not a pretty sight.