Sam Hopkins initial email to CWW

[Cohocton Wind Watch - Interactive Community]

Dear Cohocton Wind Watch,

While I appreciate your concern over the building of windmills in the
area, I have to question your motives. A few points to be considered:
1. Wind will never run out. (oil will) 2. Change is good. We all need
change in our lives at some point, it can be hard to deal with but it
has to happen some time.
3. Future generations will thank us for thinking of them when they see
the investment in a basically infinite supply of power. Yes maintenance
could possibly cost in the future, but what is that cost compared to
being with out electricity in the near future? 4. Have you ever
traveled to California? They have wind farms there that stretch as far
as the eye can see, it's not ugly it's very beautiful. If you don't
like looking at them then don't. 5. Birds are smarter than to get
close to a large fan like blade moving rather slowly at the slowest of
wind speeds and sorta fast at higher speeds, but they aren't invisible.
6. Remember that wind is what is moving the blades of a windmill, they
aren't self-propelled. 7. Windmill technology has been around for
centuries.

Please stop and take a moment to think about these points. I'd rather
like to think that you will be an activist in areas of environmental
concern that are more useful in the future, such as agricultural run-off
into streams, and factories blatantly dumping toxic waste.

Thank you for your time,

Sam Hopkins
Sam H.

[Samuel Hopkins]

Probably.

[Tom Shea]

Blades travel in excess of 200 mph at the tip. This is not 'sorta fast'.