Mars Hill Wind Farm
I am not quite sure how bored you would need to get to want to log onto a website to watch 28 wind turbines do their thing, but its now possible to watch New England second largest wind farm live in action.
First Winds 85$ million wind farm project on top of Mars Hill Mountain in Maine has cameras pointed right at it. Each of the towers climb 389 feet towards the sky, and when operating at full capacity the turbines can generate approximately 42 megawatts of power.
This is enough power to run electricity to about 45,000 Maine homes. The Mars Hill Wind Farm helps offset approximately 65,000 tons of carbon dioxide, and over 350 tons of other damaging pollutants every year.
You can watch the turbines fly in the wind by visiting the Mars hill Wind Farm website. While you are there, you can even check out the latest snowmobile trail report, which probably isn’t all that good right now. What a strange, warm winter it has been in Maine.
I can hear these from my house and I do not particularly like the way they look. But, is an eyesore enough reason to prevent something positive for the environment from happening? I juggled with this concept for a bit and have come to the conclusion that I would take 10,000 wind projects over living on a planet that is dying. I was thinking it would be interested to see if we could paint them so they are more appealing. That's what I have to add. Who's on the podcast for this week?
Northern Maine Pete
I am right on board with you Pete. Let's get creative with future wind projects. I am still deciding on which band to feature for tonight's podcast. I am throwing around the idea of just laying down a mix of some music I have kicking around. I will decide later on.
I am right on board with you Pete. Let's get creative with future wind projects. I am still deciding on which band to feature for tonight's podcast. I am throwing around the idea of just laying down a mix of some music I have kicking around. I will decide later on.
MPBN covered the current debate on bringing Wind Mills to Maine, it was good to hear both sides of the story.