Fields of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return to the Plains

Autor/in	Sowers, Jacob
Titel	Fields of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return to the Plains
Quelle	In: Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (2006) 2, S.99-112 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0275-7664
Schlagwörter	Energy; Power Technology; Public Opinion; Resistance (Psychology); Negative Attitudes; Rural Areas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Energie; Antriebstechnik; Öffentliche Meinung; Resistenz; Negative Fixierung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum
Abstract	The last two decades have seen a rebirth of wind machines on the rural landscape. In ironic fashion the wind's kinetic energy has grown in significance through its ability to generate commercial amounts of electricity, the commodity that a few generations earlier hastened the demise of the old Great Plains windmill. Yet the reemergence of wind machines on the landscape has been slowed by local opposition. Many places across the country have seen resistance to the construction of vast wind turbine arrays. Although wind energy fulfills both the businessman's requirement for profit and the environmentalist's desire for clean electrical production, building hundreds of wind turbines to carry out this dual promise in one's "backyard" has been met with intense local protest. The literature has shown that wind energy is generally popular at a national level, but local wind farm developments have been the source of bitter opposition. (Author).
Anmerkungen	Center for Great Plains Studies. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1155 Q Street, Hewit Place, P.O. Box 880214, Lincoln, NE 68588-0214. Tel: 402-472-3082; Fax: 402-472-0463; e-mail: cgps@unl.edu; Web site: http://www.unl.edu/plains
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Update	2017/4/10