Canberra Times
Saturday 1 July, 2010 Page: 10
The striking wind turbines' blades are 45m long, rotate atop 80m towers and reach speeds of about 250km/h at their tips, And Bungendore district farmer Brian Osborne has 27 of them perched on his sheep and cattle farm on the eastern shores of Lake George. The turbines are owned by renewable energy company Infigen Energy as part of a 67-turbine wind farm.
Mr Osborne is paid rent for the space taken up on his farm, "It's good to see the wind being put to some use, That's what I like about it," he says, "But I've become interested in climate change and the environment since all this has been going on and the need for alternative energy, not just because of climate change but because oil is running out and look what's happened in the Gulf of Mexico,"
Mr Osborne says harnessing the wind to produce electricity makes sense. "They're talking now, in the cities, where it's applicable, that more people will be driving electric cars. "At the moment, they have hybrid [cars], but there'll be plug-in electric cars in the not-to-distant future and they will need a lot of power,,, "And it will be preferable that it all comes from renewable sources rather than coal. "In case anyone's frightened that the coal miners will be put out of a job, that won't happen, "We're only talking about the increase in demand, never mind replacing anything that's there already."
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