Rant!

Here in Vancouver we are bombarded with adds on radio about being "powersmart" Look for the energy star, as if to discover the freaking thing will lead us to Mecca! Now our beautiful Grouse mountain skyline has a twenty story high white wind turbine erected for all of us to marvel. It will save 20-25% of the power needed to feed the ski resort annually. While the rest of us are told to turn stuff off and conserve power, Grouse mountain ski hill leaves its vastly powerful ski hill lights on 24/7 365 day a year! Now, without consulting those who cherish the grand mountain view, they erect a twenty story high white eyesore wind turbine! I'm told to turn off that which I'm not using to help conserve energy while those BEEaaattches burn huge mercury vapor lamps so the summer berry eating bears can snack 24/7? !!!! End rant!

Isn't it just lovely!

http://www.redzonefilms.com/pics2/turbine.jpg

Taken from Deer lake many miles to the south. I maybe wrong that they burn the lights 24/7 they may turn them off in the daytime (I would) but they burn all night long in the summer for no good reason!

Oddly enough, I remember being able to see said GM lights at night from a friend's B&B on Saltspring Island a few years back!
I'll bet I can really see it now with a wind turbine there! Just think...at Christmas, they can stick branches and LED lights on it and call it a Christmas tree! :wall-an:

I have good souvenirs from that mountain. In the 60's there was not even talk of wind turbines then.

It's obviously near and dear to your heart but to me it's no more of a scar than the ski hill that it sits beside. Maybe you are just more used to the ski hill than the turbine?

Well what can you do eh? There it is...A three hundred and some odd foot propeller on a stick. Life's to comfortable for me get put away for attacking it with a chainsaw, so...I'll adapt, comfortable with knowing that they will spread like dandelions on a spring lawn until there are so many of them, they'll suck all the clouds past North Vancouver and Lovin will think he's living in Fort Lauderdale. :D:D

We live in an ever changing world. You'll find your cheese again. :)

I think it's going to be an interesting thing to photograph. :)

Visually - it looks ugly to me and is not a focal point I'd want in my pic.

We have a couple of wind farms to the south of Calgary (about 2-3 hours) and I think they look kinda neat sticking out of the prairie landscape.
I have to say that I'll take the windmills over coal-generated power plants any day.
The wind turbines might not look as great on the landscape but the pollution that arises from coal power does far greater damage IMO.
No matter what the method, our massive consumption of energy has to be met somehow. So whether it's a hydroelectic dam, a wind turbine, a bunch of solar panels, a nuclear or a coal fired power plant they all impact/scar the earth in some way and there is just no way of getting around it unfortunately.

Visually offensive but at the same time..sorry guys..I like to see it.