Many pilots who fly ridges at many locations are likely to face this dilemma in the future. I fly from an airport that is located at the base of a ridge and the nearby ski resort would be a ready and eager customer for the "locally generated power".

Are there any projects (perhaps in Germany?) where power generation and soaring interests have devised a way to share the available ridge resources? Are there isolated ridges that are less critical to soaring that we might give over to power generation? Other compromises or design solutions?

I agree that losing the pristine quality of ridge lines is a tragedy, but trying to stop ALL ridge top development seems a losing proposition in the long run. This seems especially true in places like Pennsylvania that have a deep historical track record of trading off environmental degradation for short-term gains from natural gas fracking, strip mining, coke burning and other industrial development. My cousins are coal miners in PA and I know how they think.