North Dakota, twice in 36 hours. The first run across, I crossed the state at night and I kept seeing these large fields of red tower lights. It's out there in the Baakan oilfields so I was thinking of oil derricks but that didn't seem right. I haven't traveled through the state in at least 25 years.
The next day, on the way back, my driving partner noticed the wind turbines and we deduced that the lights were on them. The have a few in eastern Montana but the majority we saw were in ND.
The area in WY mentioned is up on the continental divide shelf and it's always windy up there. But the ecosystem is fragile, I know it doesn't look like much to most people, but it is crucial biospherically and needs to be seen as such. Large turbine farms are not going to be the best answer to our needs as they require damage to fragile environments that are subject to crashing as the climate changes, much more rapidly due to damage from construction of these concentrated power generation fields.
What would be much better is a well distributed point source generation system where power is generated locally. The technology exists and transformation of local systems isn't too difficult. It would eliminate large scale power outages and make the whole system less vulnerable to attack.
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