2010年5月7日金曜日

Silence is Golden

Some things are so quiet everything else seems loud by comparison.
The crunch of the grass underfoot...
The sound of a bird singing in the distance...

Everyone says wind powered electric generators are noisy. But this one was so quiet, if I closed my eyes I wouldn't have known it was there. Could it be that people who say wind-powered electricity generation is noisy don't know where to shop for windmills?

This one was quieter than footsteps on the lawn. What's more, it supplies all the electricity the resort complex that built it can use, and the fees from selling the leftover electricity will pay for the windmill by its 15th birthday.