Bankrupt my pants!

... mostly, at least.  I worked my way back to the skip=200 page to find the posts that were current when I left, skimming over the intervening entries, but I didn't read very many of them in detail.

If you posted something important that I may have missed while I was gone for a week, feel free to point me to it here.

MN pix: Wind Farm

Early in my trip, I stopped at the rest area on I-39 near Rochelle, IL, and I took a few pictures of the wind farm that is near that rest area.  It was a warm and hazy day.  The jaggy effect on the windmill blades is not a JPEG artifacts -- it is atmospheric distortion.

I don't understand why one of the main public objections to wind farms is aesthetic.  While they're not as lovely as trees or mountains, I find them prettier than almost any other works of man -- certainly nicer to look at than cell towers, high-tension power lines, or grain elevators.



( another wind farm picture )

Although I didn't take more pictures of them, I was pleased to see at least two more wind farms on my way home through Iowa.  Wind energy can't solve all of our problems, but it seems like a no-brainer that we should have a lot more wind power than we do; every kilowatt hour from wind is one less from coal.