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[gemfyre]

> - how much land would need to be cleared to accommodate the turbine towers?

Does anyone know why wind towers can't be placed on already cleared farmland? Are they too much of a hindrance to harvesters or do they scare cows or something? I imagine some farmers would be overjoyed to recieve the rent paid to them to place a few wind turbines on their properties. At least that would solve the problem of having to clear land.

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[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

If you were using large machines to mow hay / harvest crops then they need to move more or less straight lines and not avoid obstacles like rocks or turbines, also there may be issues in plants growing up them / needing to weed around them.

*shrug* but then I am [a] in the UK and [b] don't know much :)

oh, and the turbines would have to be somewhere windy - farms may or may not be.