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Udink · Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 784 Location: Price, Utah

I don't think the windmills in Spanish Fork Canyon are any more an eyesore than the highway, railroad tracks, power lines, diversion dam, enormous warehouse, or enormous gravel pit are. It's not like they put the windmills in the nice part of the canyon--they're in the bottom of a gravel pit that's 1/3-mile wide, next to a warehouse that's also 1/3-mile long. You can only see them for a brief instant when driving down the highway.

I think it's good that somebody's doing something other than burning coal in Utah. Here's some info on the SF Canyon project directly from Wasatch Wind (so take that for what it's worth).

http://www.wasatchwind.com/sfwp.html

Jaxx · Joined: 16 Jan 2007 Posts: 1551

I saw them when we went to Goblin Valley a few weeks ago. I thought they looked really cool. They weren't running. I didn't feel like they made it uglier. I thought it looked cool with the mountains in the backdrop. I'm kindof wierd though. Of course I don't live by them and hear the noise of the blades.

LOAH · Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 482 Location: Hyrule

I can't believe people would have any gripes about utilizing the wonderful wind resource known as Spanish Fork Canyon. As mentioned earlier, the area is already uglied by the explosives plant, the JC Penny Warehouse, the Diversion just upstream, the tracks, and the highway. The highway would be much louder than the props and the wind probably drowns that out anyway.

The first thing I thought of was how great it was that someone was harnessing the constant wind there. I also thought that putting up a wind farm at the point of the mountain would be a great idea.

Complaining about it being an eyesore is pretty weak compared to a big ugly power plant. Just keep driving down that road to find those. :roll:

What ticks me off about what's happening in or near Sp. Fork Canyon is the development of the area just before the red narrows. You know, that area with the nice Goblinesque rock formations and caves? Well somebody decided that it would be the perfect candidate for some buildings. BASTARDS! They couldn't pick another spot? They had to choose the most unique area (and most beautiful IMO) of the canyon to foul?

People suck!

Anyhow, I don't mind the windmills and I think it's a wonderful leap in the right direction.

Next, I'd like to see some sun farms pop up. Apparently, the technology for solar panels has been coming along in leaps and bounds, making it more cost efficient to produce solar panels and they're producing more energy per square inch than ever before.

I'm all for renewable energy with zero negative output.

denaliguide · Joined: 12 Feb 2007 Posts: 544 Location: new zealand/alaska

windmills? they should have built something that the community could really use. like a ....... ummm...... oh... i know a ......... Costco or a Walmart. :roflol: :roflol:

sparker1 · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:48 am Post subject:

I haven't seen the SF windmills, but have seen many others around the country. They usually look good to me, especially back east where the windmills line the green hillside. Those suckers are huge, but there are no houses close enough to hear the noise. Canyons are frequently used because the wind is relatively constant. The canyon (I forget its name) between Los Angeles and Palm Springs has a ton of windmills because it has the most constant wind in the US. Of course, it blows all the smog into Palm Springs, but what can you do? Southern Wyoming is also noted for steady winds, I believe.

In Quebec, they experimented with a vertical axis windmill, but it has been taken out of service.