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tommy750
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6/19/2013
tommy750
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Made the San Diego-Imperial Valley round trip today and got to thinking while passing the turbine forest. According to the internet, in 1996, South Africans may have built the first cell tower in the shape of a tree. Now, lots of the unsightly towers look like palm trees or pines. Why not mitigate the ugly turbines with some pleasing 300ft boojum trees or agaves? Just wondering. Tom


107fe01c-d1b9-44f5-b3e5-da9e0d66343f by tomteske, on Flickr


cel phone tower by tomteske, on Flickr

Now, that looks better!

Visual Mitigation by tomteske, on Flickr
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6/20/2013
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Great idea, I like it.....my guess would be the problem is it will attract wildlife that would get smashed by the (now not) rotating blades.

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tommy750
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6/21/2013
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Not to flog this less than popular post even more, but this might be a great way to decrease the visual footprint of the turbines with a low energy solution, adaptive lighting. The video is pretty amazing:

http://cargocollective.com/taismauk/Adaptive-Camouflage-for-Offshore-Wind-Turbines
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6/21/2013
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So we build turbines to power the lights that hide them??? Hammer Time

They just need to go away, what a disaster.....

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6/23/2013
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OK the Saguaro Wind Turbine is too funny Tom smile

I'm with Daren, they just need to be torn down and the desert restored

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