Wonderful story in the New York Times this morning on the transformation of defunct Bethlehem Steel mill in Lackawana, NY into a wind farm. The brownfield site has been transformed into a source of clean energy.
As I read this piece I can hear the rattle, crash and clanging of the strip mining equipment that is removing the top of the mountain above our little neighborhood. A single modern wind turbine placed on that same mountain, would, over the next two decades produce far more electricity than the coal that will be extracted -- without the noise, enormous quantities of overburden dumped in ephemeral streams, loss of animal habitat, and loss of watershed -- not to mention the ugliness.
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