{"id":1754,"date":"2010-03-16T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/16\/think-wind-farms-are-problematic\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T17:29:00","slug":"think-wind-farms-are-problematic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/03\/16\/think-wind-farms-are-problematic\/","title":{"rendered":"Think wind farms are problematic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind farm opponents raise some legitimate concerns, about the efficiency, environmental impacts, and sustainability of the wind industry.<\/p>\n<p>But one of my beefs with their argument is that they often compare wind to&#8230;nothing.<\/p>\n<p>As if the choice is either wind turbines, or no other alternative.<\/p>\n<p>But the reality is that we currently rely heavily in the U.S. on coal-powered electric generation.<\/p>\n<p>That reliance is expected to grow in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>A photographer for GQ. J. Henry Fair, has created a slide show of what happens to landscapes that are targeted for coal extraction or burning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/big-issues\/201003\/j-henry-fair-coal-ash-containment-site-photos\">Dirty Pretty Things: Coal Ash Containment Site Photos Big Issues: GQ.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fair &#8212; even crucial &#8212; that we ask tough questions of the wind energy and its backers.<\/p>\n<p>But we should also be aware that the alternatives to wind aren&#8217;t always pretty.  <\/p>\n<p>Your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind farm opponents raise some legitimate concerns, about the efficiency, environmental impacts, and sustainability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}