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Originally Posted by Northwest
Hmmm I love the concept of the gigantic harbor, but the wind turbines? Honestly I think the "green" feel of this will be very dated much too soon... in 30 years these bird choppers will have to be taken down due to them being not only ugly, but also obsolete. Wind is certainly never going to power this city. Its very short sighted to think that, and not really a good symbol for Chicago.
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we are part of the wind corridor
this part of the country has higher average wind velocities than anywhere else on shore in the country.
putting turbines on the top of towers is more economical, but saying this city cannot get a large quantity of it's future power from it's wind resources is just wrong.
In fact it is a long term solution, and our coal and oil addiction is actually the short sighted solution. A turbine is an investment, fossil fuels are a payday advance.