Is this the future for Class A's?

John & Angela wrote:


Good morning Chainright. Along those lines, we are in Palm SPrings for the winter so we took a really good tour of the windmill operations in the Palm Springs area recently. A huge chunk of land that various companies use for setting up their wind power operations and selling the power into the grid. As we went through the various stages and phases our guide talked about the Spanish companies that owned those units, the German companies that owned those, the french companies that owned those over there, the chinese companies that owned those over yonder and so on and so on. Lots of companies. I asked if there were any American companies that had a stake in the operation and he said yes, GE still had some windmills operating. It seemed that the majority of the players were foreign companies making and selling power to California. Interesting.

Very good tour by the way.

What is interesting to note is that all actions have consequences. Under investigation right now is the effect that the large windmill farms may have on the environment. The windmills use some of the wind moving trough the area which reduces the amount of wind that exits the area. It is being researched as to what the effect on local weather will be if the natural wind currents are disrupted by large wind farms.
Perhaps we need to investigate more thoroughly what the possible future effects may be on any new technology that is touted as being the next great thing for mankind.