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Green, renewable energy wipes out the Texas landscape
In the hill country where I live, there was a time when you could enjoy the blue haze from the distant hills, maybe set up a canvas to paint the sun setting behind them or just sit and watch while the color washed over them at dusk. Now those hills are dotted with wind generators churning out electricity. This pastoral scene looks nothing like the Texas kids imagined when they imagined cowboys and cattle drives.
July 25, 2012
by George Weir
in The Washington Times
JACKSBORO, Texas - If you're a landscape painter, and if you're looking in Texas for pastoral scenes to paint, you'd better paint them now. The landscape in changing rapidly.
If on the other hand you're looking to paint wind farms, you've come to the right place. It seems as if just about every hill has one, or two, or even three - as many as can be crammed onto that particular hill.
They rise up from the ground like giant eggbeaters. They're enormous, and they dominate what was once a vast landscape of flowers and... [continue via Web link]
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