Some perspective on the wind turbine story.
I have a house on a lake, in Grady County,, in SW Oklahoma. 6 years ago a 300 turbine wind farm was installed, all around me. Each turbine requires 40 acres of land. 12.000 acres.
No farming allowed because of the hazard of broken wind turbine blades catapulting across the country side. A 150' to 180' blade can cause a lot of damage.
Not a bad deal for the former farmers. Word is they get $3200 per turbine
12,000 acres of once productive farm land, now laying fallow. That wind farm is one of three, in Grady County.. That's 36, 000 acres in one County.
My house is a mile and a half, off the highway. There are 4 producing oil wells., along that county road. Each well location occupies about 2 acres. they take up 8 acres of farmland.
It would be interesting to know how much energy is produced from those 8 acres vs the energy produced from the 12,000 acres of wind turbines.
B2B
