{"id":5200,"date":"2016-07-28T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T03:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5200"},"modified":"2016-07-28T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T03:57:56","slug":"this-doesnt-bode-well-for-morton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=5200","title":{"rendered":"This doesn’t bode well for Morton County"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"wind_survey_37874\"<\/a>I was roaming some of my favorite Morton County back roads, searching for blue flax fields and whatever else I might find, when I noticed this.\u00a0 Actually, I noticed three<\/strong> of them…all in a line, spaced evenly about a mile and a half apart.\u00a0 That was weird…short little guy-wired towers springing up like that.\u00a0 So what’s the deal?<\/p>\n

I asked around a broadcast engineering group I belong to, and they gave me the scoop: they’re temporary anemometers.\u00a0 After I found that out, I was able to verify it on my next trip past that area when I actually got close enough for this shot:<\/p>\n

\"wind_survey_40391\"<\/a>As you can see, there are multiple anemometers on this tower.\u00a0 Well, there’s only one reason why you’d want to measure wind in an area like that.\u00a0 Yes, you guessed it: more stupid wind turbines, among the most expensive types of power to produce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These subsidy grabbing, bird killing eyesores are the bane of anyone who loves photographing North Dakota.\u00a0 Sadly, they’re encroaching on some of the more scenic areas surrounding Bismarck-Mandan.\u00a0 As I type this, work is in progress on a wind farm south of Hebron as well.\u00a0 Sad.<\/p>\n

If you want to get any scenic photos around Morton County, especially at sunset, you’d better do it before those ugly structures ruin the skyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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