"Wind power is a dead-end technology unless you can make the wind to blow when and where you need it," said New Harmony resident Robert Whitefield, former wind and solar power worker. "The power wind generates can only be used when it is needed - mostly in the middle of the summer. The middle of the summer is precisely when we have the least amount of wind. During the other seasons, when we do not have peak loads, wind power simply goes unused even though conventional power companies are forced to buy it."
Whitefield said he is not opposed to green energy but is against the application filed with the Bureau of Land Management last fall by Wasatch Winds to begin the National Environmental Policy Act process for a wind energy farm on 1,400 acres of public land. The wind farm would be about five miles north of New Harmony and west of Interstate 15. If approved, the site in the Harmony Mountains could include 50 wind turbines on 262-feet tall towers that would produce more than 100 megawatts of power, enough for more than 80,000 homes. Seven miles of transmission lines would be built to tie into an existing power grid. The Spectrum
