The
sun will still shine and the wind will still blow long after shale
gas is exhausted. and the last smoke stack has crumbled.
The
small solar panel array on the old Textron, now city, property on
Nelson Ave was installed in the fall of 2011 has saved the sewer
department over $20,000 in electric bills. In just a few short years
the installation will be paid for.
The
small wind generator at the weather station on Rt. 134 S..has saved
the Weather Service over $3,000 over its years of operation.
I
have heard of but not vissited a farm near Martinsville that runs
their operation with the aid of several medium sized wind turbines.
On
a typical January (1/6/14) day, in the county's high wind corridor,
the average wind speed at the 300 foot tower height of a typical
commercial wind turbine averaged 22 miles per hour.
Paul
Hunter
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