Rural communities around the world are recognizing the benefits of generating electricity locally. Even big cities are getting into the act.
An article in The Times on Wednesday centers on Tocco da Casauria, a small, traditional town in Italy whose four wind turbines, installed over the past four years, produce 30 percent more energy than its residents use. In fact, money made from the production of clean energy has brought the town back from the brink of insolvency and allowed to renovate its school and perform other much-needed municipal repairs…
In fact, many of the recent renewable plants in Italy are small in scale — a turbine or two in a village — not those immense wind parks that dominate a landscape. That is partly the because the permitting process for large-scale installation is so complicated in Italy.
New York City is experimenting with rooftop wind turbines and PSU has conducted an array of tests to determine wind patters on office buildings in downtown Portland.
Yet Coos Bay City Council ban wind.
Here is the link http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/science/earth/29fossil.html?src=me&ref=homepage
Rooftop turbines, especially ducted fan turbines, would not intrude flight paths to the local airport. Nor would they interfere with radar as some wind farms I believed to do
Is there a link to that article, and maybe some pictures of the wind turbines, like what type are they. You know. do you feel your in the flight path of an airport.