Rich Garling’s Blog

While in Ohio recently I stopped at a roadside rest area and noticed in the distance four windmills churning away. There was a plaque at the rest stop that explained those four windmills were producing enough electricity to support a small town of 1000 nearby.

I just located a story on the internet: Harvest Wind farm

in which 15,000 homes were getting thier electricity from 32 windmills located in Harvest Wind Farm near Elkton, MI. It costs $90 million to erect this array of windmills and each windmill provides electricity and $3,000 to the farmer who owns the land.

I will support these types of programs for Illinois because we need to get away from using a fuel that not only drains our pocket books but also pollutes our air and makes us sick. The alternatives are available, we just need to institute them.

Tags: Environment //