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bonobo
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 Posted: 07/12/04 - 10:33 Post subject: Stealth Towers
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Pug
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 10:42 Post subject:
I had never even heard of these, but i guess they are no uglier than a regular utility pole.
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 10:42 Post subject:
Yep... they are installed all over Atlanta. Lots of towers embedded into church steeples, billboard signs, & another assorted tall buildings/structures. I've seen a few of the "tree" cell towers too. You have to know what you are looking for.
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 10:58 Post subject:
A lot of them in our area, especially in the high rent district.
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Sahara
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 11:13 Post subject:
I haven't seen any. Methinks the people of western PA haven't raised much of an uproar yet over the ugliness of traditional towers. Perhaps they like their cell phones too much and see it as necessary. 
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keltic63
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 11:15 Post subject:
none of those modern contraptions over here in Marlboro country. we like to know just exactly what our technology looks like!
or like this: 
that there's all the technology we need here in swPA
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sonnylax
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 11:21 Post subject:
Here in Atlanta, the "stealth towers" are usually a tradeoff between the property owner and the company that wants to build the tower (not to mention the local residential/govt. groups). Example - We will let you build the tower on our property for X amount of monthly income plus you agree to hide/embed it into our church steeple.
Most cell towers these days host multiple providers (Cingular, Sprint, T Mobile, etc.). The days of everyone building their own towers are over.
From what I can tell, the branches on the "tree" stealth towers are pretty expensive. That's why when you see one, there is typically only two or three branches on them. Those stick out like a sore thumb here in Atlanta, home of alot of pine trees. Easy to spot.
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 11:49 Post subject:
They just put one in off of Ronald Reagan Pkwy (formerly home of the Run the Reagan RIP). It sticks out like a sore thump. It's twice as tall as the surrounding trees and it only resembles a pine tree in that the 'trunk' is brown and the 'branches' are green. LOOKS AWFUL.
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kobyj
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 12:03 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | none of those modern contraptions over here in Marlboro country. we like to know just exactly what our technology looks like!
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I thought those wind mills were cool when I drove through a few weeks ago. I guess it's because I don't see any around Indiana. I really like the idea though. It's far better then using coal or oil to generate electricity.
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keltic63
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 12:19 Post subject:
| kobyj wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | none of those modern contraptions over here in Marlboro country. we like to know just exactly what our technology looks like!
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I thought those wind mills were cool when I drove through a few weeks ago. I guess it's because I don't see any around Indiana. I really like the idea though. It's far better then using coal or oil to generate electricity. |
actually, I think the windmills are cool, and I'm told there are more of them not too far from Ohiopyle, a state park here that is famous for whitewater rafting. it seems that some environmentalists don't like them because they are in migration paths, or birds can fly into them, etc......guess we have to decide which part of the environment we want to save.
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 20:40 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | kobyj wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | none of those modern contraptions over here in Marlboro country. we like to know just exactly what our technology looks like!
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I thought those wind mills were cool when I drove through a few weeks ago. I guess it's because I don't see any around Indiana. I really like the idea though. It's far better then using coal or oil to generate electricity. |
actually, I think the windmills are cool, and I'm told there are more of them not too far from Ohiopyle, a state park here that is famous for whitewater rafting. it seems that some environmentalists don't like them because they are in migration paths, or birds can fly into them, etc......guess we have to decide which part of the environment we want to save. |
I'm surprised there's not more of these in southern Indiana..much more flat that the Ohiopyle area, which I remember as not being flat (I've rafted there 15 years ago!!)
My husband is rather happy with our situation. We have an FAA beacon on adjoining property. Apparently, a cell tower cannot be erected within some number of air space of one of these beacons. (This beacon is from the 70's too. There is a huge computer room, complete with weird old 70's computers to service this beacon!) We get alot of planes flying over the estate due to the beacon. The last ones that scared me were some C-130's flying nap of the land. I was running on the property and thought they were going to buzz me.. 
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 20:50 Post subject:
all over Radnor, The people here would have it no other way.
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Posted: 07/12/04 - 20:53 Post subject:
| kobyj wrote: | | It's far better then using coal or oil to generate electricity. |
Based on what? It's expensive, unreliable, and you need a heck of a lot of windmills to equal the energy production of a traditional power plant.
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Posted: 07/13/04 - 07:22 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | kobyj wrote: | | It's far better then using coal or oil to generate electricity. |
Based on what? It's expensive, unreliable, and you need a heck of a lot of windmills to equal the energy production of a traditional power plant. |
Yeah. I guess your right about it not being reliable. I do think we need a better way of generating electricity though. Using coal and oil isn't acceptable in my opinion. Maybe I should change my major to something related to the task of finding an alternative energy source. What do you think, with 1 month to graduation, should I change? 
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Posted: 07/13/04 - 12:22 Post subject:
Nuclear.
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