Click on the image to see a simulated flyover of the Puketiro windfarm created in Google Earth (opens a new browser window). The turbines are scale models positioned at co-ordinates from a map which was made available containing proposed turbines siting. The simulation was thrown together quickly and the quality is rather poor but it provides some idea of how the windfarm will appear from many locations, other than that the real thing would have a much greater visual impact. (Note that the video is about 20 MBytes)

Wind turbines for generating industrial scale electricity are very large structures. The amount of power that it is possible to generate depends on the area of the disk that is swept by the rotating turbine blades.

The above image of Stirling Castle in Scotland provides an unusually clear understanding of the scale of modern wind turbines and their potential to visually desecrate the landscape.  It is difficult to reconcile the thinking that permitted such vandalism to be perpetrated on such an historic place.

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