I was the first one in my neighborhood to get solar panels. That was when I lived in Japan and more than 20+ years ago. I wonder if I can be the first one in Sunnyvale (home to Yahoo) to have a wind turbine on the roof of my house. I wonder if I want to be the first person to have a wind turbine on house.

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Home wind turbines are coming and in many cases are already here. But, in truth, call me shortsighted but if I live in a place where it’s windy enough for me to get the benefit of a whirlygig on my house, I think I might want to move. Perhaps if I lived alone out in the middle of a field in the middle of the plains of Oklahoma, or on a mountain top or, or…

About the only real reason I can think of someone wanting a wind turbine on their house would be the ‘cool factor.’ And what about noise? And they have to be big enough to really get some power generated out of them…and, and…

Am I really being too shortsighted here? I can’t see the forest for the wind turbines.

There’s an investigation going on in Lincolnshire, UK. Locals are saying that an UFO might be the cause for damage to a wind turbine. A strange light appeared from nowhere causing damage to the giant whirlygig.

Hmm … well, I don’t believe in UFOs, and I suppose there are people who don’t believe that wind turbines are a viable source for energy. i wonder what they are going to do with this. An act of God? Something else?

Apparently, the culprits made off with the third prop. Or perhaps it landed in France somewhere.

“It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, it’s a prop off a wind turbine!”

“Huh!?”

Wind turbine usage is having enough trouble gaining traction. GP is sure they don’t need interference from Unpredictable Foreign Obstacles. Don’t you say?