If one is going to dot the landscape with fantastically-proportioned objects, take a lesson from modern sculptor (and actually one of my favorites) Claes Oldenburg ?make sure your gigantic object has a secondary purpose (like serving as a Giant Spoon Bridge).
Or can be considered an art installation.
Either of which would be more appetizing than the prospect of 667 useless wind turbines?ordered but no longer slated for installation?on the American landscape.
As Rick and Mitch noted earlier, T.Boone Pickens’ concern with the environment and clean energy, particularly in government-subsidized (or tax-incentivized) investment in windfarms, has vanished in a puff of natural gas.
We’re all in favor here of entrepreneurs acting in their own self interest with their own risk capital, but of course the Pickens plan relies on pickin’ our pockets for tax dollars to pursue such schemes. Now that the wind has shifted, however, and falling prices of natural gas are making mincemeat of the wind farms return-on-investment outlook, Pickens is bailing on the idea.
Perhaps the next venture should be an adopt-a-wind-turbine effort, to try to place the 667 gigantic homeless ‘pinwheels’ that will no longer be put to any productive use whatever (it appears). Last I heard there is at least one NC city that has not yet settled on an art installation for a major downtown thoroughfare. And perhaps some giant cotton candy to go with it?
