African Wildlife & Environment Issue 76 FINAL

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From Paul Dutton Your latest editorial about wind farms assessment I hope will save us from turning our fast vanishing ‘open space’ into fields of expensive whirling biocidal propellers. I visited Humansdorp some years ago where farmers are cashing in by accommodating these structures that would have challenged Don Quixote in hating his government even more. I met an Eskom technician servicing them there who declared them a waste of money and of limited energy production especially when the Cape winds occasionally die down.

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