Maybe all his money was with Madoff...

hey look, if we zoom in, it's almost like you can see the breeze.........twisting through the twurbines

We had a microbat flying round our lounge room last night. We thought it was a moth for a while - it was smaller than the palm of my hand. It came in through the cat flap, which was uncovered at the time. It would stop occasionally and hang from a shelf or the curtain rails, so we got a good look at it. At least they're easy to get back outside.

The turbines are generating plenty of electricity here in T.Boone-land, but the infrastructure required to 'pipe' all of it to where it is needed is, for now, lacking. Momentum is building to get it matched to production, but I don't see evidence of progress yet. The landowners around here are paid per post regardless of production. I have heard $2,000 per post per year but have not seen that documented.

Do microbats carry the lissa virus? I don't know, but I hope you were careful if you had to handle it sandy.

A little slice of Texas: cotton modules and some of the thousands of wind turbine generators. No people. No blasted birds. No exploded bats. At least, not until one of you talented folk 'shop them in! :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ceOfWTexas.jpg

Then what are all those feathers on the ground from?

note to self: tell Bruce he is off by one month on two image threads

Those are cotton balls.
(cuz we don't want our teddy bears reproducing)

Damn! Uh, well, I, um... wanted to see if youse guys was paying attention, Yeah, that's it, a test. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. :o

We are getting the same arguments here from the tree huggers. There is a risk benifit ratio in most of these decisions. I vote for non-oil/nuclear based energy forms. And then of course you have Kennedy family and their support of wind farms as long as it is NIMBY.

I can't wait to look over the landscape and see nothing but miles of these beautiful windmills.

I submit they're purtier than oil rigs. ;)

Over here the debate rages between those who don't want them because they'll kill the birds, or because they'll look unsightly. Then there are the proponents who fight each other to get them in their back yards so the govt has to pay them and not their neighbour (and they're paid very very well).

We have a plant here that makes the blades. I am trying to get a job there.