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CLICK PICTURE FOR LARGER IMAGE! Most of us see large turbines from a distance. We are usually in a moving car when we see them. It can be very hard to understand just how big these machines really are and how much their constant movement is visible until you spend a few hours half a mile from a wind turbine. Most people never do this. Most of us just pass by them in a car and are entertained by the novelty of seeing them. We may have a feeling we know what wind farms are about because we've passed them in a car. Isn't this the same as someone who has never spent any time on a farm but has passed plenty of them in his car thinking he knows what it's like to be a farmer?

 A two story house is about 30 feet tall, a silo is between 60 and 8 feet tall. Our state capitol in Madison is 286 feet tall. The wind turbines proposed for our community are 400 feet tall, or 40 stories high. That's taller than any building in the state of Wisconsin except for one.