Tilting at Windmills: Are Wind Turbines the Answer to Sustainable Energy?
Until recently I lived in southern Sweden, a flat landscape with plenty of farms, lots of coastline and a healthy amount of wind. While traversing across this broad rural landscape or crossing the Øresund Bridge into Denmark, I was often struck by the collections of white monolithic wind turbines that soar majestically above green fields and extend in daring rows into the sea. They stand watch like soldiers in a brave battle against the wastefulness of man and the senseless ecological violence of carbon-based energy. I was proud to live in a part of the world forward thinking enough to…
