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Verizon Does It, Why Not Pattern?
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
6/19/2013
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Made the San Diego-Imperial Valley round trip today and got to thinking while passing the turbine forest. According to the internet, in 1996, South Africans may have built the first cell tower in the shape of a tree. Now, lots of the unsightly towers look like palm trees or pines. Why not mitigate the ugly turbines with some pleasing 300ft boojum trees or agaves? Just wondering. Tom
107fe01c-d1b9-44f5-b3e5-da9e0d66343f by tomteske, on Flickr
cel phone tower by tomteske, on Flickr
Now, that looks better!
Visual Mitigation by tomteske, on Flickr
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2622
6/20/2013
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Great idea, I like it.....my guess would be the problem is it will attract wildlife that would get smashed by the (now not) rotating blades.
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tommy750 Posts: 1049
6/21/2013
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Not to flog this less than popular post even more, but this might be a great way to decrease the visual footprint of the turbines with a low energy solution, adaptive lighting. The video is pretty amazing:
http://cargocollective.com/taismauk/Adaptive-Camouflage-for-Offshore-Wind-Turbines
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dsefcik Administrator Posts: 2622
6/21/2013
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So we build turbines to power the lights that hide them??? 
They just need to go away, what a disaster.....
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surfponto Administrator Posts: 1364
6/23/2013
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OK the Saguaro Wind Turbine is too funny Tom 
I'm with Daren, they just need to be torn down and the desert restored
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