Wind Turbines, Ashfield's 21st Century T Rex's

I like wind energy. But technology is advancing at such a clip that putting up these turbines would be erecting T-Rex dinosaurs before they even hit the ground.

I would rather see individual windmills per house (i.e. Jay Leno vertical cylinder concept) and allow the homeowner to benefit from its production. But that of course doesn't line the pockets of stockholders.

We have all these big brains right here in Massachusetts, MIT and the like, to formulate possibilities for each home by grid and known solar and wind facts. Then through software, analyze the data, print out combinations of energy concepts relevant to that one site and give tax credits for building it.

If the lot or a prior home did not have the % needed to capitalize on return value, then I would rather see progress put the emphasis on each individual to conserve their energy by their own consumption and not rely on magna grids to provide abundance of energy to the cost of environment and displacement of nature.

This can be achieved through the daily data of energy usage the electrical companies already have in place regarding each home and the State providing tax credit to the individual homeowner or renter who's data deceases and/or goes below averages.

The partnership of electrical companies, individual, and State, coupled with the energy saving unit credits, could be worked out by higher IQ's than mine and instantly available within a year I bet. The software and data are already in place
by the electrical companies.

I am also for any landowner to develop his or her own parcel in the manner which generates highest best use and return - I agree with our freedoms and freedom of choices.

But I rather promote what WMECO is already doing, huge panels. Construct these on the ridges. They are low impact. And then send the energy back to Ashfield not to the Northeast grid for people far away to plug in more things. The owner would be paid for the output. And when technology advances with solar it is low impact to disassemble panels and erect other high-tech ones.

Let's not produce wasteland of large windmills which will be obsolete before the last one is constructed along NE's most prized highland properties. Let's not desecrate this land we call home.

Sometimes our Mother, nature herself shapes our destiny. Mother nature is already throwing huge storms across USA in places never heard of being hit before. Her storms or world storms tested the dinosaurs once before, perhaps these dinosaurs too shall be tested, and gone before someone else's daybreak.

SM Corbett