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)

After a hard day’s work, Ottfried Wolfrum liked walking his dog in the fields and forests around his village of Netsche, near Darmstadt, Germany. Though he loved the countryside, the tall, bearded university scientist was not unhappy when he learned that three giant windmills were to be built on a hilltop overlooking the village.